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6" of packed snow should not be a problem for a car designed in North America, right?

• yoshamano 4y ago
  It would be a problem for my 2012 Honda Civic with 5.5" of ground clearance.
  • roflyear 4y ago
    I wouldn't expect it to damage the car
    • justinclift 4y ago
      Packed snow can effectively be "solid ice". Hitting that at any speed is unlikely to make for a fun day.
    • buffington 4y ago
      Packed parking lot snow can be surprisingly unforgiving. When I was a teenager I had a tiny Datsun 510. After a day of snowboarding I was making my way out of a ski resort parking lot and hit a small dip. The engine came down onto a tiny mountain of packed snow/ice and managed to crack both the radiator and the oil pan. That was an expensive day on the slopes. Maybe a freak accident, but that car was very light and I was surprised at the damage as well. My cousin worked at the resort at the time and he said it would happen frequently.
• whitemary 4y ago
  "Packed" sounds like the key word here. Packed snow with tire ruts, which is common in the Brighton parking lot, can rip things off of many small/low cars quite easily.
• polartx 4y ago
  I imagine this would be a problem uniquely experienced by super heavy cars with low ground clearance, (comparatively, of course), basically Teslas. Normally, heavy I.C.E. vehicles would have greater ground clearance (like trucks/SUVs), or lower ground clearance I.C.E. vehicles would be lighter. So if you were, for example, driving on compressed snow/ice and you had a low clearance, heavy vehicle (like a Tesla) you may sink deeper into the tire ruts subjecting everything between your left and right tires to an icy sledgehammer. (Or harmlessly high centering and being stuck)
• lm28469 4y ago
  Designed in California