We have to get together soon when you're down! Let me know as I'm home to around the new year.

Tom

 

LOL. Road salt !!! These cars die from a lot of things but never heard of one dying from road salt. Drive mine all winter because you never know when any one of the many weak points in these engines will turn my car into a very well maintained paperweight. Although I do try and limit it to minor snow events and dry pavement.

 

I know I am in the minority when it comes to keeping cars forever. I plan to keep my 2005 997 for a long time. That wagon you see below the P-car is a 1991 with 199,800 miles on it. It's starting to show a little rust after 21+ seasons as a winter car. It's painful for me to see a faithful machine catch salt cancer, so if I can keep it from happening, I will. This 997 would probably still be around after many of you have upgraded to 991 or later models...In the meantime, you guys keep driving it like you stole it for me!

 

same here, every day rain or snow, nothing stops me taking my p-car out.

i drove her today in snow, am loving every bit of it.

 

I'd drive a Porsche in New Jersey too. You guys hardly get any snow!

 

we got less snow last year except the big snow storm, but we get quite a bit of snow every year in nj here...

 

I was driving mine in freezing temps (no Snow) before I found out Michelin recommends not driving with any temps close to freezing (summer blend tires).
But I never noticed any difference in grip. Not pushing it hard ,though, in future.

 

I went around a long sweeping right hander, not too fast. 37 degrees outside temp. Started losing grip like I had not felt in summer. My Winter 19' Nokians should be on tomorrow! Was running OEM Michelins, Summer tires.

 

Since I have a winter car, I chose not to set the P-car up with winter wheels/tires because it is going to be put up anyway...I'm currently up to my eyeballs managing five sets of summer/winter tires. Granted, one of the sets is constantly being used at any one time, but trying to stash 20 tire/wheels and lugging them up and down from the basement is a chore! I only managed to find an hour to change two cars last weekend, will have to do the rest this weekend!