2014/2015 Odyssey handling in the snow

nbjsbrownnbjsbrown Member Posts: 2
edited December 2014 in Honda
I am in the market for a new Odyssey, and live in the northeast where we get lots of winter weather! Since these are only FWD, I am asking for anyone's experience driving in the snow with an Odyssey. Thanks!!!
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  • ray80ray80 Member Posts: 1,655
    Do you use winter tires?
  • nbjsbrownnbjsbrown Member Posts: 2
    With my CR-V (AWD), I only have to use all-season tires, so I don't normally buy separate snow tires. My CR-V plows through anything :)
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited January 2015
    I had a FWD Voyager in Anchorage for ten years; usually ran studs on it and was careful about avoiding certain hilly or glaciated areas. Then I drove my '99 Quest in the snowy UP of Michigan for four years with an Outback for my main winter vehicle. Even though I put "all weather" Nokian WR-G2s on the van and it did much better on wet roads, they still didn't make the van all that eager to go in the snow.

    I had identical tires on the Outback and it would bomb through a 3' high drift.

    My brother is on his second Odyssey but I haven't driven it in bad weather. I don't think it'd be much different from the vans I've had though.

    If you don't have to drive when it's bad and don't have hills to contend with, then get some good tires and take your time. But it's always going to be a front heavy vehicle that'll struggle going uphill in the snow. If I was back in snow country with a van, I'd get some more Nokians or maybe a winter specific tire like a Blizzak. But I was really smitten with the Nokians so I'd probably look at the Hakkapeliitta or another one of their "all weather" tires. They aren't cheap, but I'd probably just run them year round and not hassle with twice yearly changeovers or mounting them on a separate set of rims.

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