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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
I've always been in the habit of putting one wheel across the transition at a time, if for nothing else it's way smoother than going perpendicular to it and plowing the whole front end and back end at once instead of one wheel at a time.
The snow banks were fun, I definitely plowed snow with my old car at times, rarely now with a car at stock height. What sucked was thinking it was snow but finding out it had thawed and frozen back as ice. I've never once damaged a bumper though and I've driven some fairly low cars. I did beat the crap out of the X pipe on my S4 on speed bumps. The mountainous over the top huge ones took some severely angled driving to make it over without scraping. I could not make it over the monsters at the Winter Club without scraping. Stuff like that grew pretty old. I absolutely loved snow days in that car though. I'd look for excuses to go for a drive.
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Sorry, what's an S4?
I used to drive a big boat, a Pontiac Parisian, by current car standards that thing wasn't low at all and I used to love plowing through anything with that. Always going over things one wheel at a time, especially large curbs. Creeks, snow, mud, etc. were always fun to drive through.
Way over powered V8's with rear wheel drive was so fun! But yeah, the occasional snow drift that had something under it was a bit sketchy. I almost hit a power box doing that last winter in an alley. Totally deserted, fluffy snow everywhere, piles of it from banks, I narrowly decided one snow bank was a bit too high and as I brushed by it the snow fell off and revealed a huge green power box.
Anyway, on topic, the cross trek just seemed kind of neat, we were considering impreza's and the crosstrek just seemed like one but a bit higher. So why not have the extra clearance. Actually seemed like a more compact Forrester with similar height.
What's an S4?