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Diesels used to be super-reliable engines. When new emission requirements came out (2005? 2006?) it ruined diesels. Manufacturers haven't been able to design a diesel for long-term reliability any longer. I understand they generally become very expensive to maintain around the 125K mark (this...

Goodyear DuraTracs have been pretty good for me, at least for the first couple of years. The siping isn't real deep, and it seems once it wears away they don't do as well on ice and packed snow. I'm in west-central Minnesota. We have snow here too.

is the title of a book by Remar Sutton, a former auto dealer. I read it a long time ago, but it's still available (and updated). He explains how dealerships work, and what you need to do to get the best price. Did you know dealerships make most of their money not by selling cars, but by...

You might find it best not to use your heated windshield wipers or even defroster when snowing (unless your windshield fogs). When your windshield is cold, the dry snow will bounce off. if the glass is warm, the snow will stick then turn to ice, making your wipers ineffective. I don't know why I...

I'm not going to debate this - physics is physics, and thermodynamics is thermodynamics, and I was trying to offer a simple explanation. In my post I was describing one way that objects lose heat (that's pertinent to the discussion). It's certainly true that the object (in the case of a...

The greater the difference between an object's temperature and ambient temperature, the faster it loses heat. All windchill means is that the object loses heat faster as if the windchill were ambient, but of course the object's temperature won't go below the actual ambient. Make sense? The...

I think that the best model for snow would be any with a manual transmission. You can only steer if your front wheels are rolling. In icy conditions, there is very little friction between the tires and the road, and that little bit has to overcome the rolling resistance of the wheels and...

I'd look at the DeWalt 20V Corded/Cordless compressor (DCC020IB), especially if you already use their cordless tools.

Sand bags in the bed of my F250 stop it from oversteering when the roads are a little slippery. I go with 300 lbs. I try to keep it in 2WD - I'm a big believer in using 2WD to get stuck and 4WD for getting unstuck.