tires for snow
 

can you use Pro-Line Sand Paw 2.2 tires for the slash if so what is a good pair of rims for them? if those dont work can you tell me a web site for some

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No tires are any good in the snow unless you have some weight to load it down. Tire chains work best.

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Slash won't do good in the snow. It's RWD. Even a Savage will have trouble in the snow.

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Depends on what kind of snow you're driving on and how deep. Snow that's hard packed or has good crust on top is doable for some cars. For that kind of snow, tires with some sort of pins in them work well. When my Wild Dagger was new it did pretty well driving on top of a snow crust with the chevrons/spikes it came with. Snow that's been trampled and a rougher surface is probably better with a much more aggressive spike tires like Pro-Line's Dirt Paws or Trac-Ta-Gator.
I'd go with some aggressive spikes for loose snow (either dry or wet), but once you get more than just a dusting, it's going to be getting stuck a lot.

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well can i use those tires on them if not what are sand paw tires i can use

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just get the sand paws, on the basic traxxas chrome rims.. get a ski kit for the front also

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First, you can't drive any RC's on loose powder snow except for tracked ones like a snowmobile or kyosho blizzard. Doesn't matter how big it is or what type of tires you use.

Then it will depend on whether the hard pack you drive on is just snow or there is a road under it.

Search on youtube, there are a ton of vids of RC's being run in the snow with various tires, tracks... etc.

I ran my slash last year with paddles on them and it was a blast, only on the road with an inch or so of snow on them though or really hard pack snow.

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thats what im going to do just run it on about an inch of snow. also traxxas4fun where can i get the ski kit and the sand paws

thanks

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Yes you can,
You have to go slow when its real deep and soft, watch your throttle control or it will just dig in.
Some times you have to drive back and forth to pack the snow in some area's, before I found this out I just got stuck all the time when it was deep and soft, last year I could drive in any conditions we had.

Here's a link to my video

http://www.rcuvideos.com/video/Clodbuster-In-Snow-2

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also can you buy tire foam at tower hobbies? and can i use Pro-Line Sand Paw 2.2 for the slash

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Sand paws don't require foam inserts, they use very hard rubber.

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXDT99&P=ML

If you want foam Tower sell that too

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXDX19&P=7

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sorry but imo that's not really driving in snow... that's crawling, moving back and forth in a straight line is not my idea of fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTAe8ScuPU8

That's driving on snow.

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you might be able to rig up stampede or rustler ski kits onto a slash here are the kits http://www.fullforcerc.com/ski-kits.htm

and that clodbuster, if it had any wheelspeed at all it would be digging to the ground

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To each his own,
just showing you can drive in snow with a truck, if you watch the whole video you can see it does turn, and yes you do have to crawl sometimes.

I agree its not for everyone, but I have fun doing it and thats the point of this hobby isn't it?

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No offence man but unless you're into crawlers and going 5mph that's not getting the job done. Can you put a 4wd MT with tires in soft snow and get it to move? Sure... do I call that driving? No...

If that's what you like to do then great for you. I think the majority of us would prefer to get from one side of the yard to the other in less than 30 minutes (assuming a yard of approximately 60' wide).

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I choose not to criticize other people's interests, but I guess thats just me.

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It's not criticizing... it's a debate over whether anyone would consider moving back and forth in a straight line as driving. Like I said above, if that's what you like to do... great for you.

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Maybe I'm taking this too seriously,
I was under the impression you didn't think a truck could be used in soft snow.

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You can get mattracks (off the Radioshack Mattracks Hummer and F-350) that quite a few people have adapeted to work with the t/e-maxx series as well as a few axial crawlers.