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  1. Not sure, as we did not have any ice when it was warmer. But was happening was the Forester would fish tail, on the straight, at 40 kph with the slightest throttle application. Turns, from a standing start in 1st or 2nd, would push it well to the outside as all 4 tires were spinning and sliding. Heck, it would slide if you took your foot OFF the gas suddenly. The rubber is much harder than the Blizzaks at the temps we have right now. My guess, based on the fact they were OK at -5 in snow and slush is the rubber getting hard. So studs would not make much of a difference except on ice. Just a heads up for those who might want to run these in colder climes.
  2. An update on these tires: No good when the temps drop below -10 c or so. Was kind of scary this last week actually, as we went into the deep freeze. So they will be 3 season tires, with Blizzak WS-60's as the winter tire (all that was left in my size, nice tire but expensive). And some other Forester owners are noting the poor low temp performance as well.
  3. I was getting similar effects when the weather got cold after I had the extra trannie cooler put on. The fluid was not getting hot enough. A winter front helped, as did including the stock cooler in-line with the external. The stock is part of the rad, so gets warm in winter, warming the fluid.
  4. We have studs around here too. These were on my Pathy:
  5. Check that link above to get some basic facts before spouting off. Required in several countries, some before Canada. And I would not go without them, they have saved my bacon on a few occasions. And how would it be a "money grab"? We do not pay a DRL tax, just a bit up front when the vehicle is new. So that would be big bucks I guess, GST on $200 or so maybe?
  6. And good luck getting them in if the tires have already been on the road as the holes will fill in with small rocks. If they are still unused, just get a tire shop to do it and save yourself a lot of grief. If driven already, forget it.
  7. These and a red nose to complete the ensemble:
  8. Not as fancy but it gets the spirit across:
  9. Don't quite need that feature yet at Canadian Universities (maybe at a Pathfinder meet that has GG and Co. at it tho )
  10. Yup, lower winter mpg is a fact of life in cold climes. Winter gas, sloppy road conditions, winter tires all contribute. My current vehicle is at about 9.4l/100 km, up from 8.8 in September. The Pathy mpg would drop around 10% or so in the winter, sometimes more.
  11. Its no Pathfinder as far as off-road goes but I like it for what I need (not want). My wife likes it, the kids like it, we all like it! And the Christmas decoration is only for a couple of weeks for those who are humbug about that sort of thing. GG: a little radical don't you think?
  12. Being used as a patrol vehicle by the University of Victoria campus police/security, a Chilkoot R50. Note the painting is very similar to the current RCMP paint scheme:
  13. Trainman

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    But other than that they will fit? That would be good to hear although it sucks about the snapped bolts.
  14. Don't know if the 00's had this, but my 02 had the daylight control module (that is what the mechanic called it anyway) fail, giving weird effects as well. No gauge lights on one side, no low beam on one side, etc. It was intermittent to start, with only some of the issues showing up at any one time, then poof, all at once. $500 later and all was good.
  15. Well, it WAS at 1,400m elevation! And more mixed rain/snow than pure snow. Very mucky as the ground is not frozen yet.
  16. And the General Grabber AT2's are awesome, in that muck and the snow we got today in town.
  17. wow, who said they were bad? we're just discussing the options. and I said my PIAA's have outlasted my silverstars. Yup, I did not say anything about the SS's, just gave my experience with the NH's. And the pros/cons of SS type bulbs have been debated for ions, I just happen to like the NH's and I was offering that as an option. I may try the SS's in the fog lights of the Forester, wonder what that would do?
  18. Not real extreme for the Pathy crowd but my Forester doing its thing: Logging road in southern BC. The ruts are made by her big brothers:
  19. I use GE Nighthawk's and they are very good, notably on the 01-04 headlight unit. The Pathies headlights, with the Nighthawk's, were the best low/high beam headlights I have ever had, except for the Cibe/Bosch 4 light combo on my 510 many moons ago. My Subaru high beam with the Nighthawks is also very good but I have yet to find the right bulb for the low beam, so have to live with some poor lighting (comparatively) there. And good one to revise a 3 year old thread, someone has done some searching......
  20. Here is a good view of this from a Canadian perspective, where hockey is king: Hockey for John McCain Hockey is a game that respects tradition and is watchful of those who aim to “improve” it. John McCain understands that hockey is a dangerous pursuit, and no amount of visors can change that fact. If you’re not willing to sacrifice a few teeth for the cause, feel free to move to badminton and see how you like it there. Before you cast your vote today, just remember that, if given the chance, fanatics like Sean Avery and Jarkko Ruutu would destroy everything that hockey holds near and dear to its heart. As such, hockey needs a leader who will protect its Second-Amendment right to bear arms. It needs a leader who understands that enforcers are peacemakers, not warmongers. It needs a leader who will stand tall against the proliferation of Patrick Kaleta. It needs a leader who will give you Donald Brashear when you pry him from his cold, dead hands. John McCain is committed to ensuring that the men of hockey are the best, most capable fighting force in all of sports. If elected, he’ll scrap the instigator penalty that’s for years allowed rogue players to operate with impunity. These enemies of the game must be held accountable, and, occasionally – unpleasant as it may be for some of us – force is the only way to accomplish that goal. Finally, Mr. McCain will put an end to the frivolous hooking and holding penalties that only serve to tax the pace of the game. He believes that hockey needs less regulation, not more. Hockey for Barack Obama Hockey is in dire trouble in the United States. You can join Mr. Obama and choose to solve hockey’s problems or, like Mr. McCain, you can bury your head in the sand and pray they fix themselves. During eight years of President George W. Bush’s leadership, hockey suffered unimaginable hardships. These hardships continue in places like Atlanta and Columbus and Nashville and Miami and Los Angeles. Make no mistake – hockey is under attack from ruthless, foreign raiders to the north. Without a leader who’s willing to take meaningful action on the economy, countless American jobs will be ripped from the heartland and relocated to third-world locales like Hamilton and Winnipeg. But this is not just an election that’s concerned about the economic state of the game. It’s about the game itself, and how the game represents itself in the global community. Barack Obama believes that hockey should stand as a beacon for cooperation and sportsmanship, not thuggery. Of course, Mr. McCain will tell you that hockey needs fewer rules, not more. Well, sir, with all due respect, perhaps you’d like to tell that to Brandon Sutter, a young man with his whole career ahead of him who’s being forced to recover from the type of violence that’s come to epitomize the sport we love. Mr. McCain, we’ve seen what happens when hockey is left entirely to its own devices, and now we’re saying, no more. No more head shots. Elect Mr. Obama and they will be phased out by 2010. No more clutching and grabbing. Every player, fast or slow, small or big, deserves the opportunity to skate freely. Mr. Obama believes that hockey is a great sport, but he understands that the world is an ever-evolving place, and that hockey needs to change with it. (This article appeared in Tuesday's print edition of The Province.)
  21. Thought some of us might like this. Gives one something to think of as we head towards Remembrance Day: Britain says Thanks to Canada Sunday Telegraph Article From today's UK wires: Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers, 'The Sunday Telegraph' LONDON: Until the deaths of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan , probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops are deployed in the region. And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.. It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped Glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again. That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved. Yet it's purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada 's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle. Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, it's unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular Memory as somehow or other the work of the 'British.' The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth largest air force in the world. The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity. So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers. Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces. Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia. Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit. So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan? Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun. It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost. This past year more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well. Lest we forget
  22. That's what I did too, and it works for the rear windows as well as they got real slow just before I sold her.
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