Winter Driving

[Gina]

I'm thinking about buying a Paseo, and I was just wondering, how is the Paseo as a winter driving car? And by winter, I mean winter up here in Canada with the snow and the ice on the highway. How is the handling and control?

Gina

[thoughthard]

Well, my 92 is not bad in the winter, although I put Yokohama Guardex 600 snow tires on the front. It is lowered 1" via TRD springs, so take that into account. If the snow is deep enough, it does not move. I can remember getting stuck in winter once, but that was trying to go down a road that had only three vehicles drove down it, and it had pry 1-1½' of fresh snow on it. Left for work at 7am with a light snow that turned into a blizzard. Left for lunch at noon, started to turn down the road, and then noticed it was nice and deep. Sucked.

[ShowCarTercel]

Get winter some studded tires and you should be able to take on quite a bit. Even when I didn't have my studded winter tires on my Tercel, it could still take a lot of snow for it's size and ride height.

And Welcome to the site.

[wedge]

The car handles quite well in the winter (all year long, actually). The most important thing is tires though. But you don't need super expensive ones. This year I ran cheap ($50/each) Walmart snow tires. They work great on snow, but not on ice.