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For practicality, a Subaru Forester would work well with the snow and spring potholes, as well as let you escape garage surcharges. If you want something higher end, try a Volvo XC60.
you would definitely want to lease a vehicle here as well.
the road surfaces are atrocious. uneven, broken pavement, poor repair jobs. there are giant craters everywhere. and if there has been a heavy snow or rain things get even worse. you really need to have an SUV with cushy high profile tires.
you will need to replace suspension bushings every 40k miles or so, and keep a spare set of wheels too. I've cracked two wheels and bent two others in the course of 6 months on my car with 18 inch stock wheels with 40 series tires.
I think the roads are actually better now under Deblowsio than they were during the Bloomberg era, but they are still really bad because they pave them with inferior materials so that they need to be redone every two years.
the road surfaces are atrocious. uneven, broken pavement, poor repair jobs. there are giant craters everywhere. and if there has been a heavy snow or rain things get even worse. you really need to have an SUV with cushy high profile tires.
you will need to replace suspension bushings every 40k miles or so, and keep a spare set of wheels too. I've cracked two wheels and bent two others in the course of 6 months on my car with 18 inch stock wheels with 40 series tires.
Which auto service shops in NYC (Westchester, Queens, Brooklyn, even NJ) are good in upgrading suspension systems? And what are recommended tires for dealing with snow and potholes?
Which auto service shops in NYC (Westchester, Queens, Brooklyn, even NJ) are good in upgrading suspension systems? And what are recommended tires for dealing with snow and potholes?
Couldn't tell you. I do all of my own work on the car because I don't trust hack job mechanics. I use the Bentley manual and technical forums like Audizine and vwvortex for detailed procedures.
Even the dealer (Beiner in Great Neck) managed to break a few things on the car, and the service advisors are liars there as well.
If you want to redo your control arms and bump stops, the best bet is to goto the owner forums for your specific model (Subdriven if you have a Subaru) and look at some of the local forums for recommendations of private mechanics. Usually guys who were dealer technicians at one time, but either do service on the side or opened up their own shop.
Regarding tire brands, don't buy any Chinese or Korean brands is a general rule of thumb. Jinyu, Hankook, Kuhmo. Stick with Bridgestone, Dunlop, Yokohama, Pirelli.
To do less damage when hitting potholes you will want a higher profile tire with more meat to protect the rim. So instead of a 40 series, something like a 50 or 55 series. Obviously this affects the cars handling in a negative fashion, but most insurance carriers do not cover cracked or squared off wheels as I learned the hard way.
Just bought a new set of wheels and tires from tirerack to the tune of $2700.
Teslas are not common around here, because of the aforementioned issues with garaging and charging them. Now in Seattle you can barely throw a rock and not hit one as they are very much the "it" car in cities that are heavy on tech industy, but in your position I'd go with the Range Rover and not have to sweat the winter travel problems
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