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Hi all,

Just wondering how your Stagea handles in the Snow (preferably manual).

Has anyone done much driving above the snowline in their Stagea?

How does it handle?

Did you need chains?

Any other problems?

Cheers.

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Like a snow mobile. You wont need chains unless driving on ice skating rink type ice. which only happens once or twice a year any way. Just drive smoothly when braking and turning. If you are ever forced to fit chains put them on the rear wheels and don’t drive above 30 - 40kmh or so.

us Ausies are wooses when it comes to driving on snow. In Canada I saw Harlies being driven on frozen ice covered roads.

Haven't driven the wagon in snow yet. I once drove a Mk 5 Cortina I had about 50Km through snow, without chains. You just have to drive very smoothly.

The Stagea is good fun on loose gravel, I just put it in 50:50 and it holds drifts really easy. It must look funny a large wagon going along at about a 30-40 degree angle down the road!

Hi all,

Just wondering how your Stagea handles in the Snow (preferably manual).

Has anyone done much driving above the snowline in their Stagea?

How does it handle?

Did you need chains?

Any other problems?

Cheers.

is this wat you have in mind doing? :D

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The Stagea is good fun on loose gravel, I just put it in 50:50 and it holds drifts really easy.

I've done plenty of driving in my A4 Quattro in the snow - the grip in that was pretty amazing, but the Stagea is much heavier and the manual doesn't seem to be full time AWD. The manual also doesn't have the convenience of the variable road surface selector that the auto has.

As it turns out, I'm probably buying a set of snow tyres so that should give a massive increase in grip.

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