I've Been On This And Many Other Srt Pages For The Past Few Months Now, And Getting Ready To Buy A 07. My Salesperson/wife's Best Friend's Husband Is Telling Me Not To Buy The Srt8, Due To The Fact It's Not A Good Truck To Drive In Winter. He Said "my 04 Jeep Is Ten Times Better In The Snow Than The Srt8". He Does Not Know I've Been On This Site And Many Others Reading And Learning About This Sick Suv. He (the Sales Guy) Told Me I Should Look Into The Commander And Lease It. I Told Him Let Me Think About It And I'll Get Back To U. The More Good Feed Back I Get About The Srt In The Snow The More I Will Talk About It With The Wife. Thanks Pchief

It will be just fine in the snow ... but you CANNOT drive it in the snow, like you drive it on dry roads.
Same goes for any car.

The people who are having problems are the ones who think that just because its all-wheel drive, and it has traction control that they can try and push it to its limits.

You need to be conservative in the snow, no matter what you are driving.

Sure, you might have to change the tires to purpose-made snow tires ... but the GC can handle it just fine ... as long as the driver can as well.

Hey Pchief, I won't say anything to persuade you one way or the other but I can give you a pretty fair eval. The jeep srt8 is not configured like a bad road type machine. I grew up in the city of Chicago and I've been driving here since 1965. I have had, or driven, almost every type of car/ truck there is in almost every weather type.
My jeep is an 07' and I really do like it. We had the worst type of snow here in the last week; you know the type, it rains hard first, freezes, than puts about 7-8 more inches on top and doesn't get plowed before traffic turns the roads into corrugated ice rinks. My first observations were that yes indeed this 4x4 can get stuck in this situation. If you are experienced in driving a heavy rear drive type car then the jeeps performance is somewhat similar. The jeep however does pull itself out with a little experienced coaxing. I was more concerned about ground clearance damage than getting stuck to tell you the truth (note: we still have more ground clearance than any car). I think the jeep would benefit by winter tires or off road type tires in really bad snow / ice conditions. The choices of winter tires to fit on our stock rims is limited though. Shifting the trans into 2nd or 3rd for acceleration from lights etc. helped a lot. I have a ford expedition that is a hog in these type of conditions and I would prefer to drive that for the peace of mind that i won't get stuck any where, any how, as long as there is some form of road beneath it. I will be trying some winter tires and pass along my judgement. For great performance and above average snow performance the jeeps pro's far outway the cons. for handling, braking and exhilirating acceleration jeep hands down.
Performance comparisons with vehicles I have or have driven......... this thing pulls almost as hard on the dig as my s/c mustang (596 rwhp), my torino cobra has similar numbers but doesn't pull anywhere near as hard on the dig.
My cobra replica is just sick and is such a different vehicle no comparisons make any sense. I guess in a nutshell the jeep is a lot like the best of the high performance muscle cars from the 60's and early 70's but way more refined and faster to 70 mph. the jeep has traction while most of the muscle cars were torque monsters down low and and about equal horsepower to weight. Would I buy the jeep again.........absolutely. These are just some of my observations and are stricly my opinion. The performance character of this truck draws approvals from a wide range of other drivers......... another big plus if your into that type of thing.:D

If you can drive a car in bad weather, you certainly can drive a GCsrt8 in bad weather. I have had no problems driving and I live in Chicagoland also.

Hey Pchief, I won't say anything to persuade you one way or the other but I can give you a pretty fair eval. The jeep srt8 is not configured like a bad road type machine. I grew up in the city of Chicago and I've been driving here since 1965. I have had, or driven, almost every type of car/ truck there is in almost every weather type.
My jeep is an 07' and I really do like it. We had the worst type of snow here in the last week; you know the type, it rains hard first, freezes, than puts about 7-8 more inches on top and doesn't get plowed before traffic turns the roads into corrugated ice rinks. My first observations were that yes indeed this 4x4 can get stuck in this situation. If you are experienced in driving a heavy rear drive type car then the jeeps performance is somewhat similar. The jeep however does pull itself out with a little experienced coaxing. I was more concerned about ground clearance damage than getting stuck to tell you the truth (note: we still have more ground clearance than any car). I think the jeep would benefit by winter tires or off road type tires in really bad snow / ice conditions. The choices of winter tires to fit on our stock rims is limited though. Shifting the trans into 2nd or 3rd for acceleration from lights etc. helped a lot. I have a ford expedition that is a hog in these type of conditions and I would prefer to drive that for the peace of mind that i won't get stuck any where, any how, as long as there is some form of road beneath it. I will be trying some winter tires and pass along my judgement. For great performance and above average snow performance the jeeps pro's far outway the cons. for handling, braking and exhilirating acceleration jeep hands down.
Performance comparisons with vehicles I have or have driven......... this thing pulls almost as hard on the dig as my s/c mustang (596 rwhp), my torino cobra has similar numbers but doesn't pull anywhere near as hard on the dig.
My cobra replica is just sick and is such a different vehicle no comparisons make any sense. I guess in a nutshell the jeep is a lot like the best of the high performance muscle cars from the 60's and early 70's but way more refined and faster to 70 mph. the jeep has traction while most of the muscle cars were torque monsters down low and and about equal horsepower to weight. Would I buy the jeep again.........absolutely. These are just some of my observations and are stricly my opinion. The performance character of this truck draws approvals from a wide range of other drivers......... another big plus if your into that type of thing.:D


Well put, good synopsis....

I've been driving here in CONN. since day one, I've had a Front wheel drive Audi, a Mustang GT Conv, and a Audi A4 allwheel drive turbo, before getting into my jeep. So, driving in the snow is not new to me, the only fear i have is buying the srt8 and not being able to drive it in the snow. My drive to work now is 3 miles, but that will change soon to 13 miles one way. thanks for all the feed back.

My commute is 13 miles, each way, and I have no concerns, perhaps I should, but I don't... I will drive this thing on stock tires and see how she goes. My rear-wheel drive T-Bird with snows and sand bags in the back was a bloody nightmare on bad days, all over the place and couldn't handle the slightest of inclines...

I'm not worried about getting up and going, I'm more interested in how she brakes and steers in the thick stuff....

My older Jeep, a '93, with pizza-cutter tires, probably was a better snow-cruiser, except the p.o.s. brakes on that thing where scary, any ice on the road and you could forget about it...

Having driven this thing for a while now, I think I know how it's going to work... Keep your foot out of it on bad days and it should be fine. Minnesota should be a good test, at some point... :cool: