Purchased a SHO yesterday!!!
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Rice Killaaa
Congrats on the SHO and welcome to the SHO family! Enjoy the new ride!
shooters
New Member
Congrats buddy, your gonna love it.
Crash712us
Chasing my tail
Congrats and welcome to the club.
LMSRick
Livernois
2010 14,440 miles Red Candy Metallic 402A packagage with 20" wheels.Nav and Multi-contoured seat for 31,000 at Avis Ford
WOW, good price!
Enjoy the car!!
You're local to us, let us know if you want to make it quicker
-Rick
steve142857
11's in '12 ; )
Congrats on your new purchase! I wish I could live around there... at least sometimes : )
Showgun
Canuck SHO
2010 14,440 miles Red Candy Metallic 402A packagage with 20" wheels.Nav and Multi-contoured seat for 31,000 at Avis Ford
Congrats Chuck and welcome to SHOForum.
Enjoy the new ride she's a beauty.
markathome
2010 SHO
Congrats and Welcome!
You'll get lots of stares.
You'll get lots of stares.
lowc
aka vapah lock
congrats and welcome to the fam.
esfoad
Esfoad
Kinda depends on you, the condition of your tires and where you live. I live in NJ and have no problems in winter with the Michelins and the all wheel drive for the last two winters. That said, I always put snows on any two wheel drive car I've owned. Hope this helps.
93rev2sev
SHO Member
I recommend a nice clean gen3 for winter wheels; or maybe an Escape.
Let me preface this by saying I hate rust. Everyday I see newer and newer automobiles with big nasty holes in them and think..."It's completely ruined".
I certainly would not subject any nice car to a Michigan winter unless it was a lease.
The following scenario does not compute for me and never has:
I just spent more than $30,000 dollars on a machine that's built mostly out of steel. I think I'll submerse it in salt water for 4 or 5 months out of the year.
My dad is meticulous when it comes to car washes and trying to prevent rust. That didn't stop his 2001 Conti from showing rust within 8 years. He loved that car and when it was all said and done, aside from the rust, the car was perfect - he only got $2500 as trade in value.
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I bought a set of 18's with Blizzaks and highly recommend it. We didn't get many huge snow falls last year, but got a lot of 1-2" storms, and I had no issues with any of it. All season tires don't do that well in the snow. They will get you by, buy they cant compare to even the cheapest snow tire.
steve142857
11's in '12 ; )
That is true. Up here in Quebec, Canada, we have huge winters, but the most dangerous is when the asphalt is cold and there is just a bit of snow... With the AWD system you feel that you have perfect control because it won't even spin when accelerating from a stop, but the issue is when you want to stop, AWD has nothing to do and the stop relies only on the tires. Believe me, I know what I am talking about because we have 6 months a year with snow or cold temperature and winter tires are the way to go, unless you live where it doesn't go below freezing point... but you live in Michigan, so don't even question it! I need to buy winter tires myself because when I purchased my car it was late February and I didn't want to start with a 2K$ investment for wheels and tires, but now I need to get it equipped.
That's funny because I traded in my Escape on the SHO, and before that traded in my 96 SHO on the Escape which was the winter car/daily driver for my Jaguar. I kind of want to get back to driving one car and not have to deal with the expense of maintaning two vehicles.
I recommend a nice clean gen3 for winter wheels; or maybe an Escape.
Let me preface this by saying I hate rust. Everyday I see newer and newer automobiles with big nasty holes in them and think..."It's completely ruined".
I certainly would not subject any nice car to a Michigan winter unless it was a lease.
The following scenario does not compute for me and never has:
I just spent more than $30,000 dollars on a machine that's built mostly out of steel. I think I'll submerse it in salt water for 4 or 5 months out of the year.
My dad is meticulous when it comes to car washes and trying to prevent rust. That didn't stop his 2001 Conti from showing rust within 8 years. He loved that car and when it was all said and done, aside from the rust, the car was perfect - he only got $2500 as trade in value.
luigisho
SHO Member
Lol...and you bought a SHO with that in mind?
