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Old 10-22-2009, 04:39 PM
 
Location: Tulsa, OK
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All cars work here, they need winter tires and get set up for cold weather starts.

The challenge is for you to learn to safely drive on the snow and ice.

Four wheel drive times zero is the same as two wheel times zero...
What exactly does getting a car "set up for cold weather starts" entail?

I lived in CO for a while, and got fairly used to driving in the snow. Basically I learned that a 4WD vehicle stops the same as a 2WD vehicle in snow...in other words not very well.
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Old 10-22-2009, 04:40 PM
 
Location: Tulsa, OK
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Oklahoma City, that's where a 2 inch snow fall shuts down all essential government services.

Well I can't speak for all essential government services, but I know they don't let school out in Tulsa for 2 inches of snow....2 inches of ice on the other hand...
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Old 10-22-2009, 04:56 PM
 
Location: North Pole Alaska
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For winter you are going to need a 60/40 coolant water mix a block heater a engine oil pan heater and a trans pan heater for starters. Also all fluids should be changed over to synthetic.
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Old 10-22-2009, 06:57 PM
 
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Well I can't speak for all essential government services, but I know they don't let school out in Tulsa for 2 inches of snow....2 inches of ice on the other hand...
I was in Tulsa once when an Ice Storm hit. The streets looked like giant pinball machines the next day during rush hour! Auto insurance companies must love it out there!
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Old 10-22-2009, 07:33 PM
 
Location: Tulsa, OK
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For winter you are going to need a 60/40 coolant water mix a block heater a engine oil pan heater and a trans pan heater for starters. Also all fluids should be changed over to synthetic.
Thanks. I thought there would probably be some measures that you had to take to keep your car reliable during the extreme cold.


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I was in Tulsa once when an Ice Storm hit. The streets looked like giant pinball machines the next day during rush hour! Auto insurance companies must love it out there!

Yeah there is nothing you can do on solid ice...studded tires don't work...chains work a bit. You just have to hope that the sand truck arrives.

We get WAY to much ice.
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Old 10-22-2009, 11:47 PM
 
Location: Tulsa, OK
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Yeah, Fairbanks is a Great place for a challange!

Awesome!

I do realize that it's not all rainbows and butterflies up there...in fact for a large part of the year I would assume there are zero rainbows or butterflies..haha!

But at the same time, even if I don't stay there permanently, I would love to go someplace that has some magic to it...some elements that are partly (seemingly) not of this world! Alaksa seems to have some of that.
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Old 10-22-2009, 11:51 PM
 
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that is grabbing a beer out of the bottom of a very large metal tub filled with ice with your teeth!!! beer bobbing, full head submerged then it might come close to Alaska cold!!!
Not even. Through simple thermodynamics the melting ice keeps the water at a toasty 32F. Try cooling the tub down to -40F. I predict you will have a somewhat different experience!
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Old 10-22-2009, 11:53 PM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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Auto insurance companies must love it out there!
Around Dallas they'd set up big stations after the bad spring hailstorms so they could do hundreds of estimates at once. The ice and hail pretty well kept my family afloat since my dad ran an auto body shop.

The problem with winter around there is that it'll be in the 40s all day and drizzly and overcast, then it'll freeze up at night. Either that or freezing rain. Then the whole place is like a skating rink in the morning. If it would stay either above or below freezing it would be better. That part of the country doesn't get all that much good weather, really.
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Old 10-22-2009, 11:58 PM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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But at the same time, even if I don't stay there permanently, I would love to go someplace that has some magic to it...some elements that are partly (seemingly) not of this world! Alaska seems to have some of that.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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Old 10-23-2009, 11:03 AM
 
Location: Anchorage
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Awesome!

I do realize that it's not all rainbows and butterflies up there...in fact for a large part of the year I would assume there are zero rainbows or butterflies..haha!

But at the same time, even if I don't stay there permanently, I would love to go someplace that has some magic to it...some elements that are partly (seemingly) not of this world! Alaksa seems to have some of that.
yes, exaclty. not of this world.

Fairbanks, and Alaska can provide some of that.

Don't expect too much. Just go with the flow
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