Does your TL do good in the snow?
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Apparently the blue stuff the Acura dealer 'topped off' my wiper fluid tank with is no good. My MID said 2ºF and the wipers were getting gunked up with this blue slush. It was a streaky mess, and the wipers are a few days old.
Now I probably need to pump all this stuff out and put something in that won't freeze in 0º weather...
SOOOO right about NoVa!
This sentence is a link to a post I made in December 2010 commenting about the TL in the snow.
I find that the bigger problem in the snow is not how the TL might do but rather the risk posed by other drivers who either have no sense at all or who are out of control. Put differently, you can be doing just fine only to have your car destroyed when some shit-for-brains in an SUV brakes too late, goes into a skid, and slams into you.
BTW, the post I linked above contains a picture from the Interstate on the way to a hockey game. Here's a picture of our street the night before. Our driveway is to the right in the extreme foreground (see the small patch of bare pavement near the bottom right of the photo). My TL did fine getting out in these conditions, although the drivable part of the street was so narrow that I had to back out of my driveway and back across the street into a neighbor's driveway, then turn left, then back all the way down the street to get out. But I did fine. Meantime, the guy with the Camry shown here is from Baghdad and he tries to do the minimum possible amount of shovelling before driving (his wife was trying to shovel snow using a CAT LITTER SCOOP). He was stuck when I took this picture. Another neighbor and I pushed him back into his driveway. He tried again two hours later and got stuck again. That time I did not help him.
I've had my TL since August 2004 and my overall feeling about driving it in the snow has remained constant: If you live in an area where snow tyres are the norm, then the TL will do fine IF you put snow tyres on it. If you live in an area like DC where we get the occasional big snow dump every couple of years but otherwise generally get mild dustings (that nonetheless fuck up the traffic for hours due to the idiots on the road), all-season tyres are fine as long as you (1) know how to drive in the snow and (2) are prepared to recognize the car's limitations in heavier snow and know how to work around them. (I should also note that the snow we get here tends to be wetter and therefore heavier than the stuff they get out in the Rockies.) The TL did great with all-season tyres (Pirellis for a while, Michelin Pilot Sports since 2007...on my second set of those now) on PACKED snow, but if I were encountering deeper stuff on a regular basis I'd want snow tyres.
I find that the bigger problem in the snow is not how the TL might do but rather the risk posed by other drivers who either have no sense at all or who are out of control. Put differently, you can be doing just fine only to have your car destroyed when some shit-for-brains in an SUV brakes too late, goes into a skid, and slams into you.
BTW, the post I linked above contains a picture from the Interstate on the way to a hockey game. Here's a picture of our street the night before. Our driveway is to the right in the extreme foreground (see the small patch of bare pavement near the bottom right of the photo). My TL did fine getting out in these conditions, although the drivable part of the street was so narrow that I had to back out of my driveway and back across the street into a neighbor's driveway, then turn left, then back all the way down the street to get out. But I did fine. Meantime, the guy with the Camry shown here is from Baghdad and he tries to do the minimum possible amount of shovelling before driving (his wife was trying to shovel snow using a CAT LITTER SCOOP). He was stuck when I took this picture. Another neighbor and I pushed him back into his driveway. He tried again two hours later and got stuck again. That time I did not help him.
I've had my TL since August 2004 and my overall feeling about driving it in the snow has remained constant: If you live in an area where snow tyres are the norm, then the TL will do fine IF you put snow tyres on it. If you live in an area like DC where we get the occasional big snow dump every couple of years but otherwise generally get mild dustings (that nonetheless fuck up the traffic for hours due to the idiots on the road), all-season tyres are fine as long as you (1) know how to drive in the snow and (2) are prepared to recognize the car's limitations in heavier snow and know how to work around them. (I should also note that the snow we get here tends to be wetter and therefore heavier than the stuff they get out in the Rockies.) The TL did great with all-season tyres (Pirellis for a while, Michelin Pilot Sports since 2007...on my second set of those now) on PACKED snow, but if I were encountering deeper stuff on a regular basis I'd want snow tyres.
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^, No vehicle is truly good on snow and ice, just some are better than others. but then again it comes down to the driver. Ive made it through some thick snow and ice with my TL. and Ive also seen 4x4 trucks and AWDs stuck in ditches from sliding off as I drive by in my TL 
Apparently the blue stuff the Acura dealer 'topped off' my wiper fluid tank with is no good. My MID said 2ºF and the wipers were getting gunked up with this blue slush. It was a streaky mess, and the wipers are a few days old.
Now I probably need to pump all this stuff out and put something in that won't freeze in 0º weather...
I am in the same situation right now
^, No vehicle is truly good on snow and ice, just some are better than others. but then again it comes down to the driver. Ive made it through some thick snow and ice with my TL. and Ive also seen 4x4 trucks and AWDs stuck in ditches from sliding off as I drive by in my TL
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