road salt, anyone?

RexSeven wrote: Hey, I enjoy my Mazdaspeed3 all year round, and my buddies think I'm nuts for it.

Hehehe, I had to take a day off work last week.

It was fine in the neighborhoods with fresh snow that the summer tires could dig into. Got out on some roads that had been traveled and packed..................letting out the clutch at idle in first gear and having the tires just spin, no thanks.

It took me 25 minutes to go to the gas station and back that morning. The gas station is less than one mile from my house!

In reply to z31maniac:

Snow tires. Buy them, use them, love them.

patgizz wrote: apparently the dentist my mom's friend works for takes his road salt with a side of GT-R. the exhaust tips were even rusty from it.

Honestly... no big loss

I have driven my old 911 in salt a few times. Part of me thinks its nuts - the other part says there is no other way to get to an empty snowy parking lot.

Its funny - because the 911 cost half or less than what the truck did but I drive that around in calcium/salt all the time and then forget to wash it.