Moving to Chicago - winterize my car?

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Nov 2, 2015 | 07:11 PM

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Broski28

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^^ This. Take any splitters off during winter, they will not last lol.

All in all what drkashifa said is spot on. Great list

Nov 2, 2015 | 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Rochester

A Chicago winter? Haha, no. Clearly you've never been to Syracuse, New York, which gets unparalleled amounts of snow, *AND* the damn city is built directly against hillsides. It's nuts.

In fact, here you go: Top 101 cities with the highest average snowfall in a year (population 50,000+)

I live in Rochester. However, specifically I live in Irondequoit, which are #11 and #12 on the list respectively. The reason my little suburb is rated so high is a climatology phenomenon known as "Lake Effect Snow", where the northern winds drop down from Canada into Lake Ontario, pick up all that fresh-water moisture, then dumps it on us.

Happy to see that Pittsburgh is not even on the list. It's true we don't get too much snow here on average, although it could vary considerably year to year. This will be my first winter with G37 and I guess its AWD with all season tires should be plenty enough on Pittsburgh winter roads. My driveway has a steep slope though that can always be tough with few inches of snow, waiting to see how G37 can negotiate that slope once snow comes.

Pittsburgh may not get too much snow, but we have so little sunshine throughout the winter those gloomy days are driving me nuts year after year..