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Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by rjmiz, Jan 18, 2007.

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  1. hill

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ewhanley @ Jan 19 2007, 12:44 AM) [snapback]377593[/snapback]</div>
    Yes, we Montanans use studs for many months of the year, but more states than not make them ILLEGAL. Back to snow tires for NY.
     
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    I, too, was from upstate NY (Utica/Poland). A lot depends on the composition of your mud. There's gravelly mud, for which there's hope using the back-up-and-go-vroom method. Then there's Pure Dirt Soup, for which there's no answer short of a Farmall tractor.

    It might be surprisingly less expensive to run a couple of loops of heating coil under the edges of your driveway than you think.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Miz @ Jan 18 2007, 06:29 PM) [snapback]377543[/snapback]</div>
    Miz

    That really does suck! In all my net research this issue seems to be one that pops up as a REAL safety issue. :( . Hopefully Toyota will "fix" this problem in the next model. In the mean time............... sounds like mud/snow tires are the only solution for the current version.

    Regards
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    #23 johnnymg, Jan 20, 2007
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    Tires aren't the solution when TC bogs the car down on a gravel driveway in the middle of the summer.

    It's a serious design flaw and as others have said, Toyota needs to address the problem.

    I bought this situation up during a previous life on Pruischat and got the the same "mine is bigger than yours" crap as I'm reading now. Some things never change.

    Don't bother to suggest that If I don't like it I can leave. I've already figured that out for myself.
     
    #24 aapoppa, Jan 20, 2007
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    The Prius was never designed for "off roading". If the driveway is gravel and becomes mud when it rains or snows, maybe the answer is to pave the driveway.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jan 20 2007, 10:42 PM) [snapback]378500[/snapback]</div>
    Whoa wait a minute....your possible suggested solution to pave a driveway is NOT at all a reasonable one. It
    is not asking too much for a $26,000 car to make it up a gravel driveway, where any other car would go. If
    given your suggestion as the only alternative, I would rather sell the Prius, and swap it for a car of comparable
    capabilities with the exception it make it up my driveway.

    Your totally out of line here. I would rather think I should read your solution with tongue in cheek.
     
    #26 rjmiz, Jan 20, 2007
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ewhanley @ Jan 18 2007, 09:44 PM) [snapback]377593[/snapback]</div>
    If this is true, it must have been extremely dry powdery snow like we often see in Colorado. There is no way a Prius with stock tires is going to plow through 10" of snow with 5" of clearance in wet snow. I have great snow tires on and could not do that.
     
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