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well speaking from experience

the way they arrange parking up there is pretty dodgy

and the car i drove got hit on the bumper by some 4wd while parked. Lucky some lady saw and wrote down the rego for us.

thats one incentive not to bring the GTR there. The parking is awkward and the road up is very narrow. You'll understand when you get there. If it was another mountain like Falls Creek its different. More car friendly.

And you will hate the drive up. BawBaw might seem closer to metropolitan melbourne but its 70km of narrow twisty roads and if you get stuck behind a convoy of cars which is likely, there is little chance to overtake, so you suffer doing 70km of twisty tight roads at slow 40km/hr pace. Sheer torture.

Seriously,

The whole idea of owning a car that you love, a gtr for instant, is to be able to take it with you everywhere, enjoy the drive and not to leave it in the garage cover up or avoid increasing milage or offcourse unless its a dedicate Track Car or such.....!

I've taken my old 33gts, 32gtr to the snow many time.........but that's just me though.

oh god that GTR looks hot.

snow photoshoot anyone??? lol

Very very unlikely to need the chains with AWD..... but they go on the front. Been to Baw Baw many times in a 600hp rear wheel drive ute and never had any major ice problems....... The biggest issue I think you will face is... if there is fresh snow...as the snow will build up naturally between the tyre tracks on the road ( 5cm of fresh smow can easiy translate to 15cm + between the wheels as the snow gets forced inboard ) .....and if your front splitter is as low as mine ( stock height 34 GTR ) say hello to .........MR PLOW

It will be one exotic snow plough.

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Its a $2200 fine for not carrying chains above the snow line (even if you have a 4WD car and don't need to fit them).

Are you sure?? :P

I got fined many moons ago for no chains in a 4WD ute it was only $160 ish for disobeying a sign. Nowadays I believe it's in the $300 range. ( http://wikiski.com/wiki/index.php/Chains )

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Seriously,

The whole idea of owning a car that you love, a gtr for instant, is to be able to take it with you everywhere, enjoy the drive and not to leave it in the garage cover up or avoid increasing milage or offcourse unless its a dedicate Track Car or such.....!

I've taken my old 33gts, 32gtr to the snow many time.........but that's just me though.

I could not agree more... I am seriously considering taking my R34 GTR to the snow ( I'm from NSW ) - Just stumbled on this thread looking for chains etc and anything else I need to know.....

Sorry to resurrect an old thread!

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