Winter Shoes for the G8

[Allmachtige]

Blizzak LM-60's:

I've been meaning to take pics of them on the car because they look very beefy.

I gave the OEM summer-only rated tires a try the first day of snow and said "Hell no!". They mean it when they say summer only.

[00Beast]

I'm assuming they're on the stock wheels?

[rogers9c1]

*dang* your driving your G8 in the winter? I hope you have had it undercoated and oil sprayed!

[wjcollier07]

Good way to make the G8s a distant memory...lets take a limited production car...and rust it out.

[harofreak00]

Give him a break guys.... some people buy cars to drive them.

164k on my 00.

[00Beast]

Give him a break guys.... some people buy cars to drive them.

164k on my 00.

No matter how rare, it's still a car, meant to be driven. Would I drive a one of one Hemi Cuda in the salt? No, but his G8 is one of many.

[wake]

its white anyway its clock is ticking

[01bonneSC]

Holy crap guys, chillllllll! As long as you take care of the underside every so often in the winter it wont rust. Trust me. Its a street car, not a trailer queen. (No rust on my 155000 mi 01, in IL whole life) Drive it Kyle!

[repinS]

I hope you have had it undercoated and oil sprayed!

werd. The places with the thin oil and where the drill into your doors and rocker panels, now that's the stuff. The holes are a small sacrifice to pay, but I swear by that stuff. Up here you can practically tell which 10-15 year old cars have been rustproofed and maintained and which ones haven't.

[crash93ssei]

Winter tires FTW, enough said

[Peterg22000]

I hope you have had it undercoated and oil sprayed!

werd. The places with the thin oil and where the drill into your doors and rocker panels, now that's the stuff. The holes are a small sacrifice to pay, but I swear by that stuff. Up here you can practically tell which 10-15 year old cars have been rustproofed and maintained and which ones haven't.

you had holes drilled in MY car?

j/k

anyway, not a spot of rust on mine after a winters driving, just get the underside blasted clean every few weeks and your golden.

[Gumball]

Nice choice for winter sneakers, they must have set ya back a few. wish I had em.

so are they going on your stock rims?

[00Beast]

Sounds like they are on the stock wheels.

[BonneMe]

Good way to make the G8s a distant memory...lets take a limited production car...and rust it out.

a Ferrari FXX is a limited production car. A Gallardo Balboni is a limited production car. A G8 is not. And he is in Illinois, and modern cars generally do fine in winter without rusting..

[l67poweredlss]

The reason i'm storing mine for the winter is to keep the resale high. Just in case I need a hefty down payment for a house I want to be able to sell it for close to what I paid. But if money is no object by all means enjoy it. Trust me, i've looked out the window a number of times dreaming of doughnuts in the culdusac.

[00Beast]

Driven in salt or not, it's still depreciating like a rock, especially since it was made by a brand no longer in existance?

[2000Silverbullet]

Ya, tell me about depreciation.

Mine are just sitting in the garage depreciating too. I have three North American vehicles in perfect condition that are worthless to anyone but myself.

....make that four. I'm driving one.

[BonneMe]

Driven in salt or not, it's still depreciating like a rock, especially since it was made by a brand no longer in existance?

Yup.

1)I bought my car with 12,030 miles to avoid the initial depreciation hit
2) It is very good when it comes to depreciation.
3) It's been taken care of, documented everything, I have a 3 ring binder with every document pertaining to that car in it.


Not helping: 6th Generation released this fall, and I've POURED mileage on the last year


Still hurts like a mother..

[tan96ssei]

kyle (allmachtige) is a close buddy of mine and i can assure you all he takes very high uber care of his cars even when he was driving his moms impala for a while. trust me he knows his cars he knows computers he knows how to properly clean and detail his cars.

so back off a bit people sure a G8 is a beautiful car and his a great one the white has grown on me. but the G8 specially the base and GT models were produced in high numbers. its not like a 1 of 100 total in the world GXP G8 in a uber special color. so cut him some slack he uses the car for the purpose it was built.

on a side not nice choice kyle i hear some awesome reviews on those in my car and drive mag. give me a call sometime and tell me how they are bud.

[Peterg22000]

Driven in salt or not, it's still depreciating like a rock, especially since it was made by a brand no longer in existance?

the "Pontiac" name has nothing to do with it, its MADE by Holden which is still producing the same car through out the world. and BTW the G8 (at least the GT's) are still holding in value, so low milage will help resale.