Yikes!!! 1999 E300 in snow!! - Page 5 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

#61 12-06-2005, 10:18 PM

I don't know who's crazier, the rally drivers or the spectators. Can you imagine them doing that here, some lawyer's head would explode.

aroohk · #62 12-06-2005, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ncof300d

It was a rear wheel drive....1979 was the last year of the rear wheel drive.
Here is an example:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1979-CADILLAC-SEVILLE-ALL-ORIGINAL-BEAUTIFUL-COLLECTORS_W0QQitemZ4595453238QQcategoryZ6151QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It was powered by an Oldsmoble 350 with a Bosch port fuel injection system.
In 1980 the Seville was the slopped back FWD. It was a very nice ride.

I believe that the name of the brand of tires on my E300 is Karat.

I now remember one of the oddities of the 1979 Seville... rear disc brakes and Bosch Fuel Injection...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Seville#1976

Anyhow, my memory was right in that the 1979 Eldo and Toro were front drive...

Thanks for the correction my friend, and ya.. its ALL about the driver in the snow, but man... NEVER try it not matter what with 225/45/17 contisports... SCAREY!

Hatterasguy · #63 12-06-2005, 10:37 PM

Yeah everyonce in awhile the cars will end up in the crowd. The people just push them back on the track.

240Demon · #64 12-07-2005, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

Yeah everyonce in awhile the cars will end up in the crowd. The people just push them back on the track.

I crew for a rally team, and the spectators are total wackos (me included!)...At Oregon Trail Rally last year I was standing 5 feet from Subarus flying over a hill at 80 mph...Such a rush though!!!

On another note, I drove my 240D around in the snow with bare Potenza RE930i tires and it did pretty damn well, until the pass. side wheel met a curb

#65 12-07-2005, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by 240Demon

I crew for a rally team, and the spectators are total wackos (me included!)...At Oregon Trail Rally last year I was standing 5 feet from Subarus flying over a hill at 80 mph...Such a rush though!!!

On another note, I drove my 240D around in the snow with bare Potenza RE930i tires and it did pretty damn well, until the pass. side wheel met a curb

You are taking me to this rally...I never have heard of such thing and I live 25min from salem.

Email me

BTW I also help with twistyroads ralley up here in the tillimook coast range. The Road Not Taken

Anthony Cerami · #66 12-07-2005, 11:13 AM

click the switch from summer to winter .....S.....W....starts in 2nd gear

W140 S600 · #67 12-10-2005, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

If I had the money I'd buy a Sub WRX STI.

Come on Hattie, dont bother with those, get a real car like an audi s4 or rs6. they come stock with close to 400hp. plus you'll have a V8 or a turbo 6 instead of a 4 banger. remember that epiode of 5th gear when they were doin 4 wheel burn outs and drifts with those audis....real nice

pawoSD · #68 12-10-2005, 11:52 PM

30 in 2.5in of snow? I have done 60 part of my way to work on a beltline road around here when there was a FOOT of snow on the road! (most of trip was at around 40mph however trailing another vehicle for a long ways) SD handled great, I could only sense some slight swirving movement when I'd hit the bigger drifts. My car was SOLID white when I got to work 7 miles later

Also, visibility was about 15 feet or so at times, as snow was blowing around. This was after I had forded the 2+ feet on our street (a hill) on my way out to the main road. I blasted past a minivan who got stuck on our hill that day, he must have been in disbelief.

60 in a foot+ of snow, no problem, I didn't even have much trouble stopping, just took longer.....no swirving or anything....

126's are beasts in the snow, and I don't even add weight to the trunk or anything, and I use the Goodyear Assurance TripleTred tires....they're great!

DieselAddict · #69 12-11-2005, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by pawoSD

60 in a foot+ of snow, no problem, I didn't even have much trouble stopping, just took longer.....no swirving or anything....

No wonder, you're only 19. One day you'll realize how dangerous that kind of driving is.

pawoSD · #70 12-11-2005, 02:18 AM

Oh I know it was dangerous, its just that it had just been a blizzard, and I was going down the middle of a two lane roadway, and was pretty much the only car.....I only saw probably 6-7 other cars on my 9 mile drive that morning and followed one for over half the distance....so it wasn't all that risky, had there been more traffic I'd have been going slower. This was at like 8am, on a sunday, so there was essentially 0 people out except me on my way to an early work shift....also, I alllways leave a huge distance between me and the next car in front of me(especially that morning), even in dry/good weather/months.....I am a very safe driver.....over two years and 30,000 miles after getting my liscense.....have traveled trips involving thousands of miles and 10+ hours nonstop.....not a single accident/being pulled over/or ticket whatsoever.

The breif time I actually reached 60mph is insignificant, most of the way was 40, in order to trail the person ahead.

#71 12-11-2005, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by pawoSD

Oh I know it was dangerous,

In the new age of protecting your children and bringing up a baby by the book, you might as well live a little.

Tonight a dakota pickup thought it would be funny to drive 45MPH in the 55 on the way home...they FIANLLY moved over out of the left lane and in doing so I put my foot down. Being all downhill...I let off when the speedo buried itself in the 120 region and took my turn for some food before bed. Danerous? Sure...but for anyone else besides me? No...unless my car somehow exploded and destoryed that car on the other side of the ditch median

How do you know you are living if you can't feel alive? Is that how it goes?

DieselAddict · #72 12-11-2005, 01:58 PM

Well at least you were not endangering other drivers. Nothing quite annoys me as easily as an idiot SUV driver who tailgates me on snow on a single lane road. "Yeah I got 4-wheel drive, it can do anything."

I was never as daring as you guys even when I was 19. Maybe because I didn't even have my own car yet, but even when I had my first car I was very careful because I didn't want to wreck my precious baby that I had worked so hard for. You know what I like to do for fun? Going on snow in my wife's FWD Honda on empty residential roads and pulling the hand brake on turns to do power slides. She always freaks out! But there's no chance of a collision because I always go pretty slow, there's no traffic coming, and I understand the physics involved.

boneheaddoctor · #73 12-11-2005, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by aroohk

I now remember one of the oddities of the 1979 Seville... rear disc brakes and Bosch Fuel Injection...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Seville#1976

Anyhow, my memory was right in that the 1979 Eldo and Toro were front drive...

Thanks for the correction my friend, and ya.. its ALL about the driver in the snow, but man... NEVER try it not matter what with 225/45/17 contisports... SCAREY!

I liked the looks of the pre'79 seville....

take a clean example and stuff a new crate 502 with a 4L80 OD trans.....mmmmm that would be fun.

Hatterasguy · #74 12-11-2005, 07:46 PM

I am sorry but doing 60 in that much snow where you can't see is downright stupid. I don't care what kind of car you have been driving. If all of a sudden you saw an accident in front of you how would you stop? Lock up your wheels and you can't steer, steer to much one way and you go straight ect.

You were lucky don't tempt fate, just because you are driving a MB doesn't mean they don't spin out and kill their drivers.

pawoSD · #75 12-12-2005, 02:33 AM

I suppose I should note that I did not go 60 when I could not see. For over half the trip to work that morning I was going about 40-45mph behind a ford explorer which was quite a ways ahead of me (probably 60-70 feet or more) and I was just following them. The period in which I did 60mph, was breif (maybe .5 mile) and visibility was good at that point in time, I could see well ahead of me. I'd never go 60 in a blizzard!!

You'd never believe what a paranoid driver I am, I flash my brakes if someone is closer than 2 car lengths behind me, and I usually trail people at least 3-4 car lengths back. When I park I always go to the far end of the lot and try to be next to at least one curb.

I am not stupid enough to risk my life or my car's, the point I went that fast I could see well ahead of me, and there were 0 other cars out there whatsoever.