Colorado New Residents And Snow (Durango: living in, store, airport)

[BabyBoomers2]

Am just wondering, how new residences (past/present), especially those that moved from a non-snow area to Colorado, how they handle living in Colorado's winters? I'm basically talking about those that are not yet retired or a Senior yet.

[himain]

I moved from FL almost 9 years ago with a FWD car. I had no idea of snow tires until I managed a Big O Tires store in the mountains. I currently only drive AWD cars with dedicated snow tires. I rarely go up to the mountains but snow tires make ALL the difference and it was extremely evident yesterday

[BabyBoomers2]

What about how people, new to Colorado, drive in winter?

[davebarnes]

We move here and don’t change until it goes in the crapper.

[BabyBoomers2]

Originally Posted by davebarnes

We move here and don’t change until it goes in the crapper.

Is it, or has it, gone there yet (crapper)? I know the lifestyle speed sure has increased and people are driving a whole lot faster now than years before.

[Willy702]

When I got here I brought FWD cars and thought I will only need AWD maybe 5-10 days a year so I could manage without it. All it took was one bad experience where I had to get to the airport and barely made it to change my mind and get a Jeep for the bad days. I find all-season tires are good enough for the city climate but it is annoying how bad residential roads are when we get Dec/Jan storms. Thankfully have not ended up in the crapper yet in over 10 winters.

[BabyBoomers2]

It had been years ago, but wife and I both grew up in winter/snow areas. Her, in southeastern Michigan and myself, in northeastern Indiana. She had a Toyota 4-Runner for the first three winters we lived in Colorado and then, in December 2005, bought our Dodge Durango SLT w/AWD and 4-Lock switch, as well as All-Terrain Wrangler tires on it at John Elway Dodge in Centennial. We also had, but sold, a 1997 Dodge RAM 1500 that had High/Low 4-Wheel Drive stick-shift on it. Still have the Dodge Durango at 177,000 miles on it.

So, IOW, we really never had any problems driving in snow and we drove slow/decently in snow.

[TCHP]

They handling by either driving 5 mph until all the snow is gone or, they don't slow down until they are in a ditch and calling a tow truck or spinning like a top taking out several other cars or damaging property.

[pikabike]

Learn and adapt, die, or move away.

Same as with any other difficulties.

[BabyBoomers2]

Originally Posted by pikabike

Learn and adapt, die, or move away.

Same as with any other difficulties.

Right!