I'm going to have to get some chains for mine if I keep driving it. We had a 5-6 inch snow this winter and it was enough to leave the road up to my required parking lot slick enough that I could not even get up it. Got about halfway on the paved road and then it just quit pushing forward and started spinning. Made five attempts total over 2 more-and-more frustrating hours. Started going up like a normal person, driving cautiously, tried that twice, had to u-turn in front of a city bus that was waiting to climb the hill one time. That was exciting. Tried the "just make a run for it" approach at great risk of sideways-sliding into something, and didn't get much further than the other ways (This was complicated by the presence of speed bumps; this is the same road I cracked my oil pan on two years ago), tried to go up once in reverse just for the heck of it even though I KNEW that wasn't going to help the weight distribution at all - I was theorizing that maybe the lower gear range would sort of have a "low range" effect... it doesn't. Finally had to park it at the dorm that night, put it in the parking deck when it opened that morning (paying for a pass) and finally got it up the hill at about 3 pm the next day.

And it's not even that impressive a hill. I'm either going to buy snow chains or a Grand Cherokee. If I get a decent-paying job this summer and manage to save up enough, I'm buying a ZJ generation Grand Cherokee to take up here for the winter.

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

Same here. New england winters are brutal and RWD and fwd cars just slide and are useless in winter

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1986 300SDL, 211K,Dealership serviced its whole life
1991 190E 2.6(120k)
1983 300D(300k)
1977 300D(211k)