Driving in snow - does anyone have this problem?

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Melgirl :)	dude, i already knew ur car waz rear wheel drive,before i got 2 the end of ur ???. cuz u said it waz fishtailing. thats why! i never had snow tires before. i guess they would help. i mite b able 2 find out 4 u. sum of my friends r mechanics. if i waz u id just keep slowly rollin thru that stop sign. its better than slidin of the road. also ur car must b an automatic.mine is 2. the car just want 2 gooooo when u aint got ur foot on the brake. yup!!! & when u give it gas 2 get up 2 speed ,the car wants 2 keep goin faster & faster even if u dont want 2. also, slush is still slippery. i pretty much slid down my driveway instead of walkin down it earlier 2nite. so b careful my friend. ok .mel :) Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

rapierlynx	First, get yourself some good tires. If you are upstate, definitely look into snow tires. Second, when starting from a stop in snow or ice, put the transmission in second gear. This keeps the engine from sending too much power to the wheels and spinning them. Spinning tires will slide sideways, especially if the road has a lot of cross slope ( This works with FWD cars, too). Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

kenbgray	First of all, you need the best tires on the rear wheels in the winter, and you need to put some weight over the rear wheels to give you more traction. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

patrick_hiestand	Confident experienced drivers prefer RWD or AWD. We can use the fishtailing to our advantage. Nervous Nelly people like Front WD cars becasue it makes them feel safe. TO much to get into but its a fact Front WD cars really are NOT better in the snow. The only advantage is sometimes capable of the 0 to 5 MPH get going without slipping ability. Get bumped in the rear of a Front WD car on snow and ice its a very good chance the car will spin. Not in a rear wheel drive car tho. Look into some snow and ice tires. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Fred C	Either you don't know how to drive in winter and are not driving with as much care as you think, or your tires are not all-season but, in reality, summer touring tires,, or performance tires, which make a car extremely dangerous in winter. A Texas car quite possibly doesn't have all-season tires. Look on the tire for an "M & S" mark, and if it isn't there, replace your tires immediately with tires that do carry the mark. If it does have the mark, check the tread depth. Even good all-season tires are unsafe in the winter with less than 4/32" of tread as the depth of the channels is not enough to disperse slush, or deep enough to grip ice, and the traction chunks on the outside edges aren't deep enough to grip the snow. If rear wheel drive wasn't safe in winter, 95% of the police cars and taxis wouldn't be RWD, and most drivers over 35 would have been killed, as that was pretty much all there was on the road. I have driven over 1 1/2 million miles, probably 2/3 of that with RWD, and I have lived my whole driving life in Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg, and we get a lot of winter. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

DMR	I live in NY and do not have snow tires, and I do fine. I drive slow on the local streets and highways, keep my distance from cars-extra space more than usual. If you slide while approaching stop signs or signals, consider slowing down sooner than you normally, do not brake hard, keep your steering wheel straight. Also make sure there is no soap on your tires from a recent car wash. Most accidents at stop signs occur because one driver did not see the other while crossing the intersection. So you may have gotten by all this time accident free, please stop. The other reason is brake failure or drunk driving, which is not you. Do not drive up or down hills. I was an eyewitness to an accident involving a minivan trying to turn on a hill and ended up flipping over after hitting the sidewalk and landing on a parked car. This is after seeing lots of cars sliding down that hill prior. Avoid hill completely if your car slides even on flat land, it will do worse on hills. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No