Has anyone driven their XKR while on snow.
Dont ride the white horse.

 

I don't understand the question really. Driving in the snow isn't fun unless your in a plow truck? So why ask for trouble? Of course those of us who live in winter wonderlands will need a car that handles well in the snow. Not one of us will think "Jaguar XK should fit the bill". So maybe it can, should, and does drive like any high end luxury car would in the snow. who cares really?

I still don't know a single soul whose been out in the tundra in their luxury GT saying, "man she handles well in the snow. I gotta do this more often".

No, we say, "can't wait till the salt is off the road and I can drive my kitty like a bat out of hell again" (only then never to exceed 30mph)

 

The shney back in the day... I can't say I did in the XK, lol.

 

It's awesome to read about all the folks taking their cars out in the snow. Can't say I've seen one on the road when it snows, but I'll snap a pic if I do, ha ha.

 

Well, sometimes, you don't find the snow, the snow finds you. Went from LA to Park City for Sundance this weekend. Had the top down on Friday, all the way up. ALLLLMOST beat it on Monday coming back down... not quite. A VERY hairy few hours there through the high desert. The rear end did kick out a couple of times.

But, as you can see, it cleaned up pretty good. (Better than I do, that's for sure)

Last photos are at Zion, today.

 

For shame, for shame, young man, you don’t appear to have theJagWrangler.com’s Remote Top and Rear Window Control. Great pictures though!

 

Personally, I don't think that it's the "driving in the snow' that's the real problem. It's the damage that the road salt does to the car, that's the real issue.

 

agreed. Actually, I prefer driving on sanded roads as opposed to salted, anyways. I can’t be the only one...

 

Drove up to Vermont this weekend for a pond hockey tourney. Went well on the highway in icy conditions, with maybe an inch or so of snow.

Next day however, took it out of the parking garage and tried it out in a foot of snow. Got stuck in the middle of the street. Pulled into a parking lot after taking the DSC off and had it sit there the whole weekend.

So I wouldn't recommend driving it in a blizzard =]

 

I really shouldn't post when drinking, but I've been drinking, so I have no self control. I've seen your name around here for months. I always read it as "moose bottle". I didn't understand it.

I just read your name and realized that I've been misreading it for months (years maybe).

I still don't understand it, but now I know it has nothing to do with mooses. Or bottles. Please explain the name.

 

 

I just can't bring myself to drive my XKR in the winter. The salt they put on the roads is so destructive. Not to mention all the people who don't know how to drive in good weather, never mind slippery roads in winter, just waiting to smash into you. So it sits in the garage with the battery tender hooked up next to my Corvette. I so dislike winter.

 

But I DO! Had it in my 2011, took it out.... haven't put it in this yet.

 

Oh, and a serious question: if you look at my pics, the wheels are surprisingly clean compared to the beating the rest of the car took. Do you think the salt actually cleaned them in some way? They're cleaner than they'd normally be on my in-town driving in LA....

 

I'm interested to know what "salting " means in other countries. Just salt or something more ........?

Here in the UK the Highways Agency (responsible for Motorways) and Local Authorities (responsible for urban roads) use salted grit. This can be the size of a pea and only slightly less destructive than a sawn off shotgun.

I avoid following gritters. They have a snow plough on the front and a rotating plate at the rear which throws the grit across the width of the highway at a single pass. Anywhere within about five car lengths will inevitable risk damage.



The problem, even for drivers who choose not to drive in Winter, is the salt covering is washed off the grit but it then remains on the sides of the roads all through the year. A wonderful source of gravel rash on the paintwork and cracked or broken windscreens.

Graham

 

SO glad I moved to Texas. I do NOT miss that salt crap (I moved from New Jersey). Here when it's icy, they put sand on overpasses only. Pretty much anyone with a brain (or isn't forced to go to work) just stays home.

 

Moses Botbol is my actual name. It's Sephardic.

 

Salt mixed with coarse sand. That's the most common stuff, and it is dispensed identical to yours.

 

I keep even greater distance, but- I was sandblasted proper, it sounded like a a dozen birds hitting the windshield at once. There was not a snow truck in sight.
I was on the most prominent highway (interstate 40) runs from coast to coast. ( this was in Albuquerque New Mexico)
The snow plough was working on the mountain above and winds were blowing.

Sometimes they will pass you in the opposite direction, and not even be ploughing- a pile of snow (which contains debris) will catch their disengaged blade and you are blasted.

A word of caution to all. Just as you have noticed water running down your back as you open the hatch, even few hours after a rainfall- there was zero engineering gone into areas of the car that collect water/brine.
I have never seen anything like it. When I use forced air to dry the car, you would not believe how many 'rust-bucket' areas there are. The entire door sill, the hatch. spoiler, where mirror attaches.

 

That's the best part of the wash; using the Master Blaster or air compressor. So much water just sits on the car and behind any trim or lights.