How to prep my ZL1 for it's first active winter
I gave my car away to my wife..sort of a long story, but it prevented me from having to buy her a 50k SUV. She likes my ZL1, and the attention it gets. I never drive it anyway.
So now that my garage queen is a DD, it has gone very well. The challenge is MN winter is near, and I need to make sure this car is ready for -20 farenheit, snow, ice, road salt, sand, etc.
Here is my plan and questions I would like your input on:
(1) what is the best snow tire/rim combination (I am still on stock goodyear F1), she does not requre a performance tire, I do not care what they look like, just want a great snow/ice very low temp tire.
(2) I was thinking about putting 200# of salt bags in the trunk, is that too much weight?
(3) I am going to spray/undercoat everything, I know some rust going to happen.
(4) Since she will drive <1 mile to work, I was thinking of going 0w-20? thoughts? will be many frequent starts (4-6 per day).
(5) Coolant was checked and tested out to -40 degrees.
She will leave it in Tour mode and PTM in 1, if anybody has any experience in a ZL1 driving through a MN winter, I would like to hear from you.
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