Ok, so I know how bad the balt is in the snow, but I just wanted to get back home so bad, I decided to go leave my friends house because I was close. So I get about a block before I get completly and utterly stuck. I can't go anywhere at all. THIS SUCKS. So I remember that if I go to work from where I am it's all downhill or flat for the most part. If there was no snow on the ground it would have taken me all of five minutes to get there. BUTTTT it took me close to an hour. Here I am creeping down the side of the road with the tires spinning watching POS Hondas, and other POS cars just blowing by me. God, so I get to the point where I am just going to give up, when I get traction. Thank god. So I slowly roll into work (Hawthorne Chevy) and I go to pull in the lot, and I can't even get into the lot because there's a slight hill where the sidewalk passes the driveway. So I rock myself back and forth and finally get in, and just leave the car there. Tell the manager and call for a ride back. I fried the front tires, so it's new ones for me, AND DIFFERENT ONES. This is by far the worst thing I have ever driven in the snow. It's time for a beater. Something awd and shitty. HELL my 1990 Chevy Lumina was a beast in the snow. You think newer technology would help....NO GUESS NOT.

 

yeah ive noticed mine aint too great in this weather as well...

 

I hear ya, i went out and bought a 2wd ranger cuz its better in the snow than my balt'. Best $300 I ever spent

 

It would help if you got some winter tires..or all season's for that matter.

 

i alo fried my front tires yesterday...looking for new tires today...

 

how do u fry the front tires?

 

P Zero Rosso= useless in snow
P Zero Nero= a lot better in snow not as good any other time

 

SNow tires much? My cobalt is better in the snow with snow tires than my jeep with crappy tires.

 

Your driving on preformance summer tires.
There no good lower than 7 degrees C when they will go hard and have no traction.
Invest in some winter tires thh summer ones will last twice as long.

 

well... hmm ... no comment... but seriously learn how to drive.. no need to spin your tires.. which is why you probably got stuck in the first place... gotta be gently with the throttle man... I was driving on 3 inches of ice this morning and get to do it again on more on the way home... no probs whatseover.. and I have even worse tires... dunlop sp9090's on it now...

 

yea those are pretty bad for driving in snow

 

another person that blames the car for not driving right in the snow when tis driver error...HORAY!!!!

 

come on guys I live in phoenix and I know you cant drive summer tires in snow

 

why is everyon bitching about the damn car??? LEARN HOW TO DRIVE!!! and don't use summer tires in the winter... because it's one of those 2 things, it's NOT the car... it's YOU that sucks

 

I have a 96 Dodge ram 4x4 for that exact reason!

Yes some of it could be the driver but the car does suck in snow but it also depends where you live if you have a lot of hills as i do, if the road ain't cleaned enough you ain't getting around with any small car very easily. My 2004 seabring was far better in snow with 40 series tires!

 

Personally i have the 2.4 with the pirelli's i am 17 and not the most experienced snow driver but i dont think its terrible. Personally i find it to be alot of fun, i just realize it is going to take me alot more time to get anywhere i want to go. I got stuck three times in the couple of times i was out driving today, i just threw it in reverse or in first or L one of them was able to get me out no problem everytime. Also though each time was when i backed out of a drive way and tried to go again.

 

i have great traction at this time of the year...oh, wait...i also tanned today while playing tennis

 

When it snows, the Balt stays in the garage. In just two days, here in Chicago we got about 12 inches of snow. I tried pulling out of the garage, and bam, got stuck. Well, I just threw it in reverse back into the garage, went inside, got my dad's truck keys, and I was good to go.

 

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Um yeah can someone say winter tires..... how is this the cobalts fault?

 

I'm sorry, I think I'd rather be 45-60 min. from the snowy slopes!
Legendary snowboarding FTW! lol

To be honest, It's mostly driver in this car. The tires play a pretty big part but I think the driver plays a bigger part. If you just spin the tires, your going to get stuck. If you drive around at 5 mph, your going to get stuck! If you drive defensively and safely while keeping your speed up through tricky spots and try not to spin the tires the SS/SC will do just fine.

I run my Cobalt with Nitto 555's in the winter and a 2.8 pulley. I have only gotten stuck because I either: drove to slow, spun the tires or had to stop for sombody else. It's not the ultimate snow car but it does fine for our climate most of the time.

 

I'm with you, I have Winterforce M+S tires and my friend's Jeep has All Season's and he was all over the road, I was cruising right along, no spinning or sliding. Snow tires are night and day compared to the PZeros in the snow. A sound investment for us who drive our summer beats as winter beaters.

 

Well considering that the balt is not as good as my seabring was. how many people really want to mess with winter tires for 5 or 6 good snows a year thats a lot of mess . I felt spending the money on a 4x4 was a better investment considering hauling anything in the balt is severly limited as well . The Balt is my good weather daily driver.

 

For the people who claim that it's the driver and not the car...thats a pretty ignorant statement. You don't even know who I am or how well I can drive. I like to consider myself a pretty decent driver, and everyone I know says the same. Even feathering the clutch with NOOO gas at all the tires were spinning. I wasn't getting ANYWHERE. There's was not a thing I could do about it. For people out of the area it has been hailing and freezing here ALL day.

 

yeah I live in queens and work in manhattan... made the drive today with no problems (on dunlop sp 9090's even worse in snow than the pirellis) until I had to back up the hill into my driveway. but even then I was only momentarily stuck.. till I went forward and reversed again.