Hi tfischer,

Re: or to the "Snow" position

I'll take a look when I get my car back; it is off for interior detailing right now.

One other little event ( but not really related to 'snow' ) was that when I got home ( after putting ~2800 miles on her & being gone for nearly two weeks ), as I was getting everything out of the car, I inadvertently left the passenger side door ajar ( or maybe I didn't, which I think is what really happened; see below ).

This drained the battery all the way down ( she was completely dead ); so off to Sears for a new DieHard.

After getting the new battery in, I still had the 'open door' signal on the guage cluster; I could not get it to go away.

As I was driving the car over to the detailers & he drove me back home, the 'open door' signal went away. We figured that is just needed to be activated a few times to clean the contacts.

I'm thinking that the contacts got corroded/something on the passenger side as that door almost never gets opened.

I simply did not go back into the driver's side to notice the 'open door' signal on the dash after I emptied the car.

Well, at least I now have a new battery.

Jerry Baumchen

 

Sounds to me like you don't have a contact problem, you have a passenger deficit...

 

The snow mode kinda works like what you are thinking, but in auto, all the gears has to go in order and you can't skip it. Snow mode gives you a lesser response. So that means you accelerate alot slower; therefore you won't slide or skid when you launch off from a complete stop. It kinda works like second gear, launching super slow but it from first gear instead

 

ScottR, I believe with a good set of snow tires, the salt in your trunk and your car in "snow" mode, you'll be okay next winter.

I believe snow tires makes a world of a difference. Look at this previous but similar post on the same subject matter. OH, and I use snow feature in my car as well!

 

It sounds like moving down in size to a 16" snow tire may also be advantageous. For those of you who use snow tires, what size are you using?

 

I'm a novice , my first posting , but it's in regard to another post you made with radiator leakages with the 04rx 330 my auto is well pass the 100k waranty i went to the dealer who promptly told me i'd have to bare the cost to replace the radiator $12,000.00 . Do i have another recourse?

 

Got a set of 16 inch wheels with old Blizzak LM25s, I think they're 225 series tires. The SC does not look very pretty sitting on 16s but the Blizzaks are reassuring in snow.