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2001 Subaru Legacy Limited AWD Currently running standard All Weather tires... work decent... but she has a few small problems getting going in snow. She's not as accustomed to driving in snow as I am (considering she USED to drive a '99 Cavalier Z24... lol) but yeah. I'm looking at the possibility of getting her a spare set of wheels with actual winter tires, be they snow or A/T. Thing is... I don't see a whole lot of options for small-car snow tires. Trying to stay below 150 a tire if possible... but I don't know ANYTHING about the ones available: Firestone Winterforce - Studdable tire with decent reviews. Reading to be a noisy tire, but effective in deep snow and on ice. Stud option necessary? Decent tread wear and cornering. Bridgestone Blizzak WS-60 - Studdless Ice/Snow Tire - seems to perform better in snow and slush than most other winter tires, but has a much higher tread wear rate and corners are a little squishy? Michelin Pilot Alpin PA3 - Good tire life, less performance in deep snow than others, but better handling. Would AWD make up the difference over softer compound tires? It also seems to be less aggressively designed... these almost seem like an all weather tire? Goodyear Ultra Grip Ice - One of the only true "snow" tires, not snow "performance" tires, I'm looking at... seems to have the BEST ice/snow/slush/wet rating, good tread life, it's studless, and all the reviews I've seen for em are positively beaming. This is the one I'm looking at... any reason not to?

My fuel light doesn't go on till it's resting on the peg UNDER E - this happened last week - and I put in 16.4 US Gallons. >_> Buh? Granted, I had 270 miles on the tank before I refilled...

90 kph or mph? If you're pulling 90 mph on a regular basis >_>

I'm assuming you mean 1987 SE V6... Japan is good... but I don't think Nissan (or even Datsun) was around in 1887...

They said he think he had a stroke... how can they not be certain?

I still don't know why his winch would have bust... can you get pictures up? No tress or anything to use? Old military recovery method: Take a tire-less wheel with you with a hole drilled into it. If you get stuck, lift a wheel and replace with the blank wheel - tie a line off to an anchor point and the wheel, wrapping it around and then bolting into the hole. Slowly (and I mean slowly) pull yourself foward untill you are free. Put your tyre back on and go about your merry way. Not the best on the equipment, but it works by dangit

I can't post proof here, but I did see this thing in action. At the PA State Farm show, I think it was 2 years ago, they had a prototype system. Used two LARGE bubbler catalyst units and had a fuel flow monitor and another meter that showed the RPM's of the engine and temperature of the engine. They showed it running on plain fuel and then engaged the HHO system - for starters you could SEE the gas bubbling thru their... I guess bubbler?... tanks. It was impressive how much was produced. They let it build up for a bit, then allowed the HHO to mix. The fuel use immediately dropped by a fair amount... maybe 1-2%% or so. THEN they spoofed the ECU and were able to pull back the fuel use to around 10% of the original value. The temperature, sound, and rpm of the engine stayed constant... so I'm assuming they were modifying the O2 sensor value (makes sense because if HHO burns cleaner and releases oxygen when it burns, the O2 sensor would try to compensate and dump more fuel into the engine, right?) They had a second setup that was much smaller to demonstrate how little the resistance on the motor increases using their system - it didn't seem to make much of a difference TBH, but again - this was a much more basic system from a few years ago. Now, they DID say this was still experimental and they were working on a version that would work in a car or truck... but I haven't gone to the farm show the last few years due to school and work So who knows *shrugs*

Browns gas acts as a catalyst that helps increase the efficiency of the ICE's fuel/oxygen burn. Idea is you sacrifice a little bit of electrical power (thus straining the alternator a little more and thus decreasing fuel mileage) for a large increase in ICE efficiency, more than enough to compensate for the added power draw. Lookup HHOTech... I'll post a link once I get home

Oh, so you bottomed out? Should've been able to bump or pull you off though... huh. No recovery straps to get the recovering vehicle on good ground? Or a high lift? Or any kind of jack?

Ya'll should have been in Italy when their soccer team won the world cup... holy @!*%e 0o'

It sounds stupid... pull your wheel covers and check to make sure all your lug nuts are on and torqued right.

Case in point, in a BAD stuck in thick mud, going uphill, with the wheels stationary, that winch would be pulling, at most, 15,000 lbs, give or take. No reason it should have broken giving a light tug to a truck stuck on ice... something was done terribly wrong. Next time, use a snatch block mate BTW - what broke? The winch itself, or the line for it?

Mate, ice or no ice - put her in 4x4 low and ease it on and you should be good... I had to do that once when backing out of a parking spot at the college appt I was at when an ice storm left 2 inches of solid ice on the ground... and my parking spot was around a 15* incline to back out of. Incidentally, I was one of five students to get to class that day... three in my truck and a friend and his buddy (friend drove a Bronco 2 w/ studded tires)

Apparently, Comcast was rooting for Pittsburgh XD

You ever see Pittsburgh or Philadelphia? Yeah, thugs most of em I lived in Philly for a while... not a pleasent place to be sure.

I know nunya, but I don't know how I managed that 0o'

Don't know how I spelled it wrong XD

THEY PULLED OFF NUMBER SIX!!!!!!!

Hm... I have this same issue... can I get a piccy of the line? I'll have to check this out

I've had my pathy in far worse than that, and it's bone stock save for BFG Al Terrains.

I don't get it... if it's pushing that much horsepower... HOW can it be slow? My 1990 Pathy, if I kick her down and push her hard, will do 0-60 in a respectable time frame... I mean, 7-8 seconds from a standing start ain't bad for a 19 year old SUV. Granted, that's pushing deep into redline to do it, but in a pinch (eg, when a Tractor Trailer decides he wants to get up close and personal with your bumper as you try to merge with the highway on a 100 foot on ramp) it works. I'd wager if the truck had a proper engine rebuild + port-n-polish... hell, maybe even just up the displacement to the 3.3... it'd prolly pull the 0-60 a second or two faster. Again, most of this is probably due to the fact that A) zero wheel spin and you're pushing the truck to (if not beyond) it's limits... but I'd hardly call that sluggish. 0o; Plenty more than enough to beat the civic-ricers around here

99th percentile 4 times in a row thank you Just never made that connection Nissan wants to go to 7 spd eh? Cool... how does CVT compare to 7 spd?

So Infinity is owned by Nissan then? Strange.

My fiance just got a call from the Corporate office for the grocery store she works at (Karns Foods) Backstory: 2 weeks ago she applied for an open position 2 days ago she went for the interview today: SHE GOT THE JOB! OH HELLS YEAH! Big step up for her, both money wise, advancement opprotunity wise, and emotionally!

File a police report - if he hit you hard enough to damage YOUR truck, just think of the damage to his POS