i know suspension/alignment atc, plays a big part in handling. But if i do have any issues with the above, it is drastically more noticable in the snow, unless all max's are like this.
Here in Ontario...we get snow, lots of it.. last night while driving in the snow storm we get as per usual, my steering wheel felt loose. I could slightly turn it side to side and it felt like the tires are slightly slipping, but i still go straight,,thank god..
how does your max handle in the snow!?!?

 

If you have good tires, you will do well in snow. If you have bald or high performance wide tires, you will not do well in snow. Tires are the overwhelming biggest factor in snow traction period.

 

Mines running pretty good in snow. I have nearly new 215/65/15's up front. As long as i don't turn to fast I have no slipping.

Oh and it does really nice cookies

 

mine stays parked in the snow.
it's bad enough in rain.. wet traction is only theory in my car, let alone snow.

 

Yea, jeff is right. Yokohama AVS tread pattern looks like this
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and all my tires do is this:

worthless

 

I have a 93 SE 5 speed, with 4 brand Bridgestone Blizzaks ws-50s and my car handles great! I bomb right along with little to no sliding! Invest in some winter snows, it's worth it. All season tires are not snow tires!!!

 

Since I have a Stillin front lip and lowered the car my Max acts like a ghetto plow. I can hear the snow hitting the lip. Every night I had to dump 20lbs of snow that got wedged in between the gap under the bumper. But the traction isn't bad at all.

 

My max is great with the dunlop sport A2s. They're great tires for winter!

 

My max goes great in TN. Lots of ice, still goes! Last time it snowed and iced over, I did 65 down the highway, passing fellow employees. I even have a 5 sp. I put stock tires back on for winter and they are all practically bald. Snow tires make the difference? I think KNOWING your car and its limitations and KNOWING how to drive in such weather makes the biggest difference.

 

We have had over 2 feet of snow, topped with freezing rain and sleet in the last two weeks and the temp has been in the 5-25 degree (F) range since before New Year's. The weather has been so bad that a major interstate (I-84) has been closed for the better part of four days.

I have four nearly new studded tires and my Maxima gets around extremely well on packed snow, ice or powdery snow (we had a lot of that before the sleet and freezing rain). I have no problems with traction (VLSD yaaay) and it handles and stops very well. Virtually every car in town has been using chains, but I am doing great with my studded tires. The only drawback has been clearance. Because we have had so much snow, it's hard to get over some areas. Since it snowed about 8 inches Tuesday night, I haven't driven the Max, only our Infiniti QX4, mostly because it has more clearance. Also, I would like to point out that my town is built on the side of a hill, so I have been driving/stopping on pretty steep hills.

 

Ditto. I used to drive in snow when I still had the AVS dBs on the car. However, it was a hair raising experience. Now that I have Z-rated ES-100s, it stays parked.

 

Oh my car runs great in the snow.

It's the ice that got it.

 

might be kind of hard to tell there is snow on the ground, but oh man was it fun

http://s92599732.onlinehome.us/video...iedrifting.mov

 

mine does pretty good in the snow but i'm thinking about parking it and fixing up my 71 toyota corona to be my winter daily driver since i don't trust others on the road.

 

my max gets around great in the snow as long as I don't drive like I normally do..ABS=my friend on the ice..

 

terrible, i refuse to drive my max in the snow, and until it warms up enough for me to work on the car in my driveway, i wont drive it in the rain either, lack of splashguards.
it doesnt do too well in rain either, so snow without blizzacks is

 

I've got plain all season uniroyal tiger paw nail guards, and I have zero trouble in the rain and only slight problems with snow when the plows mound it at the end of our driveway..other than that, I get around just fine..earlier this winter we had 10 inches of snow that hadn't even been driven over on the side streets muchless plowed, and I had no trouble getting in and out of my driveway and driving through the snow..if you have trouble driving in the snow, get narrower tires..if you have trouble in the rain, get your foot out of the injectors..I thought about Blizzaks, but I decided it wasn't worth it since I get around just fine as is..

 

shes great in the snow i drove it thru a foot of snow just fine.

 

Squirrely.

Mainly because "plans" fell through and I'm not running snow tires like I want to. I agree that the overriding factor in snow traction is tires. I don't know what individual opinions of "good" traction is with all-season tires, but people living in any place that gets any appreciable snow really should be running snow tires, because there is a big difference in traction compared to A/S's.

I'd also just like to warn anyone out there with snow tires or who have brought out their 4x4 that this doesn't make them invincible. Snow tires only give a wider safety margin - don't whittle that back down to zero again by driving any faster or more aggressively. There are other people on the road that you have to watch out for too...

EDIT: Good thing for me that the snow's all melted now.

 

I use studded snow tires here in Alaska and the car drives really good, it has really good handling. I just made a 350 miles trip (mind you on roads where no salt is used) on icy roads through mountains, constantly going about 85mph and sometimes triple digit speeds (on ice), and the car handled really good. Although a couple times I eflt as if I was riding on a hockey puck!

Sohaib
89 Maxima GXE

 

thanks for the replies.
I have cheapy all seasons (motormaster). And it handles ok in the winter conditions. It just feels like there is something else going on with my front end. I have to slow right down when turning, even in excessive rain, or else the car wants to drift... i suspect my control arm bushings, because when i inspect them they seem off center, as in the control arm bushing hole beeing offcenter from the body mount where the arm attaches (this is with the car on the ground) but then again, at 240,000km i plan on taking a good look in the summer time at the suspension all around...
and i totally agree with the reply regarding over confident drivers... drive safe.

Mark

 

i use my max as an official snow depth gage. below i measured 16" of snow on the car- the poor mans way of getting a 1.5" drop.

 

Handles fine in the snow. The Seattle area got a snow storm last week and my car handled fine.

Tires do make a difference. It doesn't snow here a lot like when I lived in Colorado, but tires rated M+S would be a good minimum measure even for a place like Western Washington.

I have Falken ZE-326 (205/65R15 94V) on my car.

 

I have Futura all seasons on mine and it did better than I thought it would. Yeah I know Pep boy special's arent a tire to have on any car but it came with em when I bought it just haven't gotten around to getting new ones yet. I'm planning on getting Kumho 716's real soon and I really can't see the car getting any worse.

 

I've got the Kumho ecsta HP4s on the rear of my max and all the way around on my wife's van. They handle the snow beautifully. not to mention the drive pavement and anything else that I've thrown at em.

 

right before Christmas we had a pretty good snow and my wife and I decided to go buy a christmas tree. She wanted to go cut one down so we headed up to the tree farm and they told me that they were still opened. I started to head up the snow covered trail to the trees... I had a couple of SUV's and 4x4s tell me to turn around because it was too bad but I just blew them off and trucked along up the hill through the snow. The LSD really helps out alot on the VE SE's. The only problem that I have ever had with snow is stopping. that is all.

 

my max handles pretty well.. i've got dunlop d60 a2's and they're not bad in the snow.. although for awhile my tire pressure was a bit low and the tires were not gripping very well at all.. but once i got some air into them and brought the pressure up a little above the normal.. it had no problems.. although im not a big fan of the early generation abs.. its a little to sensitive for me.. i can lock up from time to time... thats when u hope ur on an empty street with nothing u can hit hahahaha

 

-45 degree wind chills - i dont even want to leave my house

 

mine handles like a champ in the snow, and I live in NYC for those that know about snow!! And I have 215/50/17 sumotumos on mine!! But of course I gre up in Syracuse NY so the snow there is crazy!!!!

 

When my left ball joint was bad the car behaved really poorly in the snow. Once it was replaced and the car was aligned, it handled many times better.

 

thanks lord, that was the type of input i was looking for!
how are you lower control arm bushings??