Winterize For Winter Use - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

smagerstein · 10-09-2012, 06:29 AM

6th winter here in Slovenia.. We have snow about 30 days a year so quite a bit. I use the box year round since 2006 when I bought it.

Absolutely no problems at all. All I do every year is the following.

1. Anti freeze in the wiper fluid
2. Snow tires (which are required by law) between october to march.
3. Treat the soft top with some scotchgaurd or equivelent.

No leaks.. No deteriation of anything. Easy to drive on the snow, just dont have a heavy right foot and dont accelerate into corners

All good. Cheers

Okanebm · 10-09-2012, 04:37 PM

I'll be looking Forward to a good soft-top cleaning and scotch guarding before the winter. Not to mention the snow tires. Chicago and Slovenia... Have not seen a Chicago winter since 1992. Slovenia was seen from the deck of a Cruiser back in 1995.

Okanebm · 10-09-2012, 04:46 PM

Do you all have the winter tires in staggered sizes also? Or do you run same size all around? Just wondering in case Virginia has a Snowmageddon this year...

2003S · 10-10-2012, 05:02 AM

Yes, I run a 17" staggered setup in the winter (I'd run 16s, but they won't clear the calipers) and 18" for summer.

Ghostrider 310 · 10-10-2012, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by smagerstein

6th winter here in Slovenia.. We have snow about 30 days a year so quite a bit. I use the box year round since 2006 when I bought it.

Absolutely no problems at all. All I do every year is the following.

1. Anti freeze in the wiper fluid
2. Snow tires (which are required by law) between october to march.
3. Treat the soft top with some scotchgaurd or equivelent.

No leaks.. No deteriation of anything. Easy to drive on the snow, just dont have a heavy right foot and dont accelerate into corners

All good. Cheers

Your long winter is an upstate NY fantasy, we have winter from about Nov - Apr and have won the golden snowball award for maximum snow accumulation of 149" in 2009, they are saying this year will also be snowy.

Topless · 10-10-2012, 08:36 AM

A good set of snow tires make winter driving much better. All Season tires are weak sauce in comparison if you get regular snow. If I were to shoe up my Boxster today, it would be on 205F/225R 16s.

For reference: Some drivers believe that we don't actually have snow in Calif. They would be mistaken. This is 45 minutes from my house:
JUST A LITTLE SNOW | LOCAL CELEBRITY