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Welcome, good to see another fellow Ontario-an around here.

Finally landing l my career after a lot of years worth of struggling to get there. Still fairly young, give me some time and I’ll get back to you with more.

Yeah I already bumped my first curb (lightly) thanks to the understeer. Learned that about 30kph (18ish mph) is about as much speed as I can still do while still being able to corner on any appreciable amount of snow.

I get good traction but steering and braking is not great when in heavy snow. Go figure

I've added my responses in the quoted message below. EDIT: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand on a side note, I just realized after posting this that this is already several weeks old, so. Sorry to be tardy to the party. If I can get my hands on a Delorean, I will take this response back a few weeks and drop it...

I've run nothing but 87 octane since day one. No idea what the dealer pre-filled it with for me when I took delivery, although I'm willing to bet it wasn't high-test. No issues running on 87. I have no doubt I'm down a few horsepower because of the lower octane and the engine auto-adjusting...

Yeah I’ve been impressed with him; considering how under fire he has been and how intimidating it must have been to follow Alex Trebek, he’s done very well.

Jesus Christ. Glad it was all on the car and not on the wifey-to-be.

Unfortunately with tires as wide as ours, even for those of us who went with narrower-than-stock winter tires, we will always have a tendency to ride on top of the snow rather than cut through it. It’s just the way it is. I will admit I did not try the deep snow mode in the recent snowstorm we...

I threw Bridgestone Blizzaks on it and I still have problems. Manageable now that I’m getting used to it, but definitely not what I hoped for.

I’m not as impressed as I thought I would be with this truck in the snow. Good traction on takeoff, and the AWD seems fairly decent, but it has trouble braking and steering on thick, heavy, slushy, chunky snow...more than my last car, a straight RWD sedan, did. I suspect it’s because the tires...

No. I wanted it the way I wanted it and I wasn’t willing to pay several thousand more for options I didn’t want.

6 months. But I ordered it January 2020 and then the ‘rona hit.

I’m a fire dispatcher, so mine is radio-related, probably not much help lol. Though I think a few people have misinterpreted it for “go ahead and cut me off”.

If it sounds anything like a dog growling inside a tin can (best description I could give mine when the advisor asked), watch to see if it’s happening during deceleration when it is downshifting and the engine RPM spikes a little bit. That’s what mine was doing, and the TSB regarding the hose...

Nah keep those, they keep drunks out of ditches occasionally.

Amen. Turn that shit off always. Even the parking sensors now. I found it was too distracting having the car scream at me for being too close to something when I was trying to park. Car doesn’t understand I was driving 19 years before it was built lol

I think that’s just the first and last thing the screen displays when it powers on or off. Does the same thing for me too. Just a default image. Maybe because one might go Explore mountains, and the car is an Explorer? My guess anyway.

Occasionally I’ll use the handheld brush at the coin-op, but not until I’ve scoured it thoroughly with the pressurewasher to clean anything out of it, and then I’ll usually squeeze my own soap (Chemical Guys) into the bristles, work it in, and then use as normal, adding more soap when needed...

Yeah I’ve never owned, let alone raced, a turbo car before and I would never have expected it to smell like burning wood mixed with garbage. I’ve smelled a lot of burning automotive substances but never anything like that before. Glad to know it’s apparently normal for the breed.