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How deep of snow have you been able to drive your GLC 300's in successfully? Just curious as I haven't driven my 2020 GLC 4Matic in anything deeper than 6-8 inches.
I'm using Continental Cross Contact LX Sport - 235/60 R 18 tires.
Currently impassable roads during ongoing blizzard!
If it is possible to stay home, try that. If it is essential, go out and go slow.
Thanks - everything here is still pretty much shut down, but today progress should be made in snow clearing.
I am still curious how deep of snow the GLC 300's can handle, think 2 feet would be doable with skid plates, etc.
Thanks - everything here is still pretty much shut down, but today progress should be made in snow clearing.
I am still curious how deep of snow the GLC 300's can handle, think 2 feet would be doable with skid plates, etc.
We got slammed here in Denver but not as bad as you got it. We received only 27 inches.
I surely would not attempt 2 feet unless circumstances forced you to do so. Why become just another stuck vehicle?
We got slammed here in Denver but not as bad as you got it. We received only 27 inches.
I surely would not attempt 2 feet unless circumstances forced you to do so. Why become just another stuck vehicle?
Agreed! I have a Jeep if I need to go anywhere but I am sheltering in place. My goal today is clearing snow on window well covers and near foundation before weekend warmup & snow melt.
My side garage door had 5 foot high 4 feet in depth snow drift so must clear the rest of that and near my back gate which is snowed shut. Not crazy like those who attempted Pena Boulevard trying to get to DIA.
The only blizzards with more impact I remember are the Oct. 24th through 26th 1997 blizzard - and the 1949 monumental blizzard, which occurred before I was born.
P.S. I was working this event and some of the photo's taken were by me. I was there from Friday afternoon October 24th through the afternoon of October 26th, 1997.
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Wow! The storm essentially missed us, south of Colorado Springs on the Front Range. We got two inches. Looks like you have some sublimation going on there.
I have found that "how deep" depends on two things.
With my FJ45 Land Cruiser, with anything over the front grill, the snow would pack under the chassis and lift the tires so they wouldn't contact the ground. Bouncing on the bumpers crushed the snow and you could slowly progress.
Then, if you could forge through that situation, snow clogging the radiator caused overheating. It required cleaning the radiator and waiting for cooling.
In the Blizzard or '78 in Illinois that closed O'Hare Airport for its second time (I was stuck there in '67 for its first time, too), I needed to get TO the airport to pick up tickets for a future flight.
I and another FJ40 found a quarter mile stretch of closed road (it was my secret way to commute to O'Hare), that only had a 12' high drift, estimated because standing on the hood would not let me see across. Most other possible routes were either too deep or clogged by abandoned cars. Snowplows had been ineffective.
We quickly verified the above "Two things."
So, we hooked a tow strap, nose to tail, and the front Cruiser attacked the drift until the tires no longer had traction, then the tailing vehicle yanked the front one back out, until its radiator stopped cooling. Then we exchanged places and repeated. I had chains but traction wasn't the limiting factor.
It took four hours to get through that quarter mile, but we opened the first passage to the land-locked O'Hare, and emergency vehicles were able to get through. Slow going - 16 hours per mile!
By the time I returned, that quarter mile had been opened wide and Police were there directing traffic and preventing access to non 4WDs.
Based on that and other experiences, high centering is likely the limiting factor.
Wow! The storm essentially missed us, south of Colorado Springs on the Front Range. We got two inches. Looks like you have some sublimation going on there.
I have found that "how deep" depends on two things.
With my FJ45 Land Cruiser, with anything over the front grill, the snow would pack under the chassis and lift the tires so they wouldn't contact the ground. Bouncing on the bumpers crushed the snow and you could slowly progress.
Then, if you could forge through that situation, snow clogging the radiator caused overheating. It required cleaning the radiator and waiting for cooling.
In the Blizzard or '78 in Illinois that closed O'Hare Airport for its second time (I was stuck there in '67 for its first time, too), I needed to get TO the airport to pick up tickets for a future flight.
I and another FJ40 found a quarter mile stretch of closed road (it was my secret way to commute to O'Hare), that only had a 12' high drift, estimated because standing on the hood would not let me see across. Most other possible routes were either too deep or clogged by abandoned cars. Snowplows had been ineffective.
We quickly verified the above "Two things."
So, we hooked a tow strap, nose to tail, and the front Cruiser attacked the drift until the tires no longer had traction, then the tailing vehicle yanked the front one back out, until its radiator stopped cooling. Then we exchanged places and repeated. I had chains but traction wasn't the limiting factor.
It took four hours to get through that quarter mile, but we opened the first passage to the land-locked O'Hare, and emergency vehicles were able to get through. Slow going - 16 hours per mile!
By the time I returned, that quarter mile had been opened wide and Police were there directing traffic and preventing access to non 4WDs.
Based on that and other experiences, high centering is likely the limiting factor.
Funny but true embarrassing story: We returned after a trip to Colorado to see family, and when I got back to Hastings, Nebraska our driveway had a 4 foot drift in it. My wife wanted to stop and shovel/blow the snow - but I told her I would gun my F150 Supercrew 4x4 and get it garaged.
Well it high centered and we had to dig it out for an hour before I got it loose. By the way she still remembers. She bugs me about the GLC not being like a high powered 4X4 truck or SUV so I am catching grief for not driving when our weather is bad. Luckily a V-plow finally just came up my street.
I shoveled and used snow blower for about 6 hours today. I grew up in Pueblo!
03-14-2021, 09:37 AM
