Winter Suspension Opinions needed

[klarowe]

I would be amazed if SNOW could actually break a bumper.  Maybe cause a mount to fail, but break the bumper?  Do you plan on driving into ice blocks?

Too true.  My front bumper is a sort of baby-blue after 240k, the thing has more or less been stripped to the black plastic in some spots.

I'm not too concerned over the powder, mainly the giant drifts that are left by people plowing their driveways and leaving it in the middle of the road... most of the time its just powder, but on the wet days it can get pretty hard packed. I hit one last year in my Jetta and thought for sure I broke the bumper... but luckily it didn't

[skyphix]

I'm not too concerned over the powder, mainly the giant drifts that are left by people plowing their driveways and leaving it in the middle of the road... most of the time its just powder, but on the wet days it can get pretty hard packed. I hit one last year in my Jetta and thought for sure I broke the bumper... but luckily it didn't

I said it in your other thread... the only thing that messed my bumper up was driving up (front wheels off the ground) a frozen solid snowbank supported entirely by my front bumper. And then it was just the splitters that broke. I don't think you've got much to worry about with freshly deposited (even packed) snow chunks, let alone drifts, which are usually dense, but not hard like they'll break something.

[rshaw123]

Too true.  My front bumper is a sort of baby-blue after 240k, the thing has more or less been stripped to the black plastic in some spots.

My car is a 2005 and my back bumper has chips down to the black plastic in spots.

[Bioya]

It will be fine (drifts included) unless there is more than 6" of unplowed snow on the road. Above that, the car does not like it.

[klarowe]

wisdom from the man himself.. lol. That is good to hear coming from you since you do have experience with it.. lol.

[hydrochloric]

6" of unplowed snow isn't that common around me...  The most I've seen is ~4", and our road is usually the last one to get plowed.

My car is a 2005 and my back bumper has chips down to the black plastic in spots.

...the back bumper?  How does that work?