Anyone out there thinking about driving their G37 in the winter? I'm just wondering if really good snow tires will be enough since this car is RWD...

 

Snow tires should help a lot. I have A/S tires on mine and I'll have it out in the snow on occasion.

I once had a 2005 350Z, took it to a B&B in the Cumberland MD region in May 2005. On our last day, it snowed. The driveway out of the place was twisty and uphill. I had performance tires and a 6MT, and I was fine. You just need to take it easy on the power and let the electronic assistants (VDC, etc) do their thing.

That's my experience, YMMV.

 

Winter driving is fine, but snowy driving may not, I don't care how good of tires you get. When it snows (I mean real snow with accumulation) and the snow removal machine leaves a nice bank of snow beside your parked car, good luck getting out of there. When ever it snows, my brother usually leaves his IS300 at home and take my Stealth. I have never been stuck in snow with an AWD car. Hopefully Infiniti will be intimidated enough by BMW's new 335ix and come out next year with a G37x, hopefully available with S trim, but I know I'm dreaming.

 

You need to be sure to get winter tires, I ordered my winter setup yesterday from Tirerack.

 

If you are going to drive in winter you must get winter tires or an all season tire. Summer tires will lose all traction in the cold, regardless of whether there is snow or not. I'm not going to spend all spring trying to remove all of the winter weather swirls from the crap found here in Chicago, so I will be driving the box.




Low horsepower, front wheel drive and skinny tires. Goes like hell in the snow.

 

I've driven my rwd BMW through the last 3 winters ALL conditions without any problems at all. Bridgestone Blizzaks X4 by way of Tire Rack. As long as the nose doesn't start plowing snow you'll be fine. My Blizzaks are in the garage waiting for my Black G. If you get REAL snow where you live don't waste your money on all season tires.

 

My G35c would not move in the snow. I am sure my G37 will be the same. It might really snow 5-6 times near me this winter so I could just get rides from my girlfriend or something rather than spending money on winter tires.

 

I have a 06 LR3 in the garage that is just waiting to come out… It’ll have to wait till it snows because I’m having too much fun driving the G37 around.

 

My G35C was a tank in the snow, winter driving was nothing in that car, snow, slush, ice no problem, drove it for 3 winters no problem. It could go anywhere in the city any other car could FWD or AWD. I've already had two winter driving situations in my G37 already, both in the summer tires and both times it handled well. The first was in 5 inch deep slush, ice and the only time I lost traction was trying to stop, handling and acceleration where fine. The second was just yesterday in a freak snow storm, 2 inches accumulated snow and slush and the car handled like a dry spring day in the summer tires. Obviously I wanted to avoid these situations, but if anything, they are building my confidence on how well the G37 will react with dedicated winter tires. The biggest difference between the two cars is that the G37 has a dead space when you first hit the accelerator that gives you a lot of control in slippery situations, the G35 was on/off which gave big problems when trying to start on ice from a stop. Another big contibuter to winter performance is actually the weight of the car, that extra 150lbs really helps keep the car planted.

It is fact that a G35/37 WILL get around in snow/slush/whatever given the proper tires so the only other variable is how good the driver's winter driving skills are.

 

Orbie, you in Calgary? I am near Rocky Mountain House right now and we got that snow too. So you were using the summer tires and had no problems? That is good to hear I am trying to find michelin winter tires to fit and don't want to go with blizzacks. I am from Edmonton and i get my g soon I hope.

 

Hey Techuinang I was curious what do u mean in ur signature about Infiniti Canada ? Are G's more in Canada?

 

I second that my g/f can come on over with her Accord anytime when its winter wonderland time!

 

Yep, crazy weather eh? I just got out of the Calgary/Minnesota game () when the rain turned into snow. It was an interesting drive, many times I thought of pulling over but that was just my own fear of driving in summers in snow (this really came about from being caught in my G35 on it's Michelin Pilot Sports in the snow...yikes). Yeah the car handled like it was dry pavement, very surprising to me since I thought the Pilot's would have more grip than these Potenza's. The car was very stable, obviously I wasn't tearing through the roads like it was a summer day but I was still driving at a normal clip and things were fine. Now I don't recommend anyone try and face winter with the Potenza's at all, but with winter tires this thing will be just fine. Any reason why you hate the Blizzak's so much?

 

I don't hate them but i worked for Michelin manufacturing back east in Nova Scotia. So i get 66% below lise for michelin tires. But it seems they don't make the pilot alpins in the size i need. So i might just have to bite the bullet and buy the compitition. I run pilot spot on my maxima inthe summer (they are the ****s in the snow) and pilot alpins in the winter (they rock) wife drives from Leduc to Buck lake everyday to teach (280km round trip) and she loves the alpins.

 

If by more you mean more expensive, that would be correct. The difference between a Canadian fully loaded G37 compared to a US one is ~$10K more up north. Absolutely ridiculous considering our currencies have been so close to par for quite some time. Unfortunately, all manufacturers are trying to make a quick buck.

I'm actually surprised about your experience with the G in snow. But you're right, heavier the car will be, better it wil be for traction. Who said the G37's weight was such a bad thing . You're actually reassuring me a little cause that was my biggest fear for going from an AWD to a RWD.

BTW, this is turning into a Canadian thread, let's move this to the Canadian subforum to give it some life... j/k . Can't wait for the first snow storm, has been way too unseasonally hot so far.