sounds like your allighnment is off. maybe camber/caster

make him pay for it !! lol

 

Shannon, I really wanna smack your bf now, even more.
lol

 

i had snow in my rims once on the highway, i thought i had a flat. took the snow out, drove perfectly.

he also could have pegged it into a curb while drifting (rookie), thusly giving you your new alignment

 

Dont sweat it....the snow gets packed into the rims and throws them off balance. I did it a few times this year, already. You can always pressure wash it out, if its not too cold outside....just make sure you get it all out and all is back to normal.

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Just grab a stick and poke out all the snow/ice. It really can feel like your suspension is about to fall apart...

 

I agree with above and your b/f...snow probably turned to ice over night on the inside of your rim. Mine did this as well and I let it sit at work for the day..came out to go home and it drove fine due to the ice melting. not a big deal to worry about.

 

thanks guys!! yeah i think thats what it was....cuz later when i was drivin it...it was fine.....so i dunno.....

driftin the focus cant hurt it right??? thats what he told me....(well unless you hit something)

 

you cant really drift a focus since its front wheel drive. in a focus it would be a powerslide.

 

lol ok then can you hurt the focus POWERSLIDIN it??? lol it was powerslidin pretty good actually......i was bracin myself for death tho i almost shit myself.....

 

lol...damnit i cant try to powerslide until march. thats when it get icy over here

 

your b/f sounds like a grade A rookie to me hahahaha but yea its powersliding not drifting we do have front wheel slugs haha j/k but yea thats ice in your tires you will be fine..

 

yea u probably shouldnt let him drive it if all he wants to do it slide it around in the snow...make him do that to his car.

 

Is it just me or would powersliding be an oxymoron? Your front wheels are the ones powered by the engine and thus drive the car, yet in a FWD car you can only "powerslide" when applying the e-brake to induce extreme oversteer. The driving wheels are not the ones inducing the slide. Now, you cannot "drift," which is simply "a gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention." I really think drift would be the proper term for e-brake application on non-drive wheels, and powerslide would be the proper term for motorsport drifting. Either there's confusion with the original word's meaning - drifting that is - due to the inclusion and rising popularity of the motorsport itself, or the terms are synonymous and intermixed.

Then, think about the term "power braking," in which the drive wheels overcome the braking force of the pads and the static friction between the tire and road to allow them to rotate while keeping the other non-driving wheels still. Wouldn't powersliding simply be using the power of the engine to drive the powered-wheels in order to break the frictional force present on the tire?

That's my reasoning.

 

^^^what?

 

yeah what old _grendel said and take a zanax your overworking your brain!!!

 

lol, sounded like an episode of Bill Nye, the science guy.

 

Seriously? There's nothing complex in my posting. It's just questioning using the logical word composition to explain the action being described and debated in this thread - drift or powerslide.

 

so, are you like a Harvard drop-out or what. Sorry man, you have a point. And xoxoxoxogirl, never let your boyfriend take your car out again. Make him use his car.

 

Seriously? There's nothing complex in my posting. It's just questioning using the logical word composition to explain the action being described and debated in this thread - drift or powerslide.

If you wanna be technical you a perfectly correct. But as I am going to state, if you cant teach a Honda driver that his car is just like everyone else's, then you cant teach him correct english...

 

Seriously? There's nothing complex in my posting. It's just questioning using the logical word composition to explain the action being described and debated in this thread - drift or powerslide.

Hey, you made sense; maybe a little wordy but your point is well taken.

Years ago a friend had a 69 Chevelle (sp?) with big fat meats on the back and the skinny (almost dragster like) tires & wheels up front. In a snowy parking lot at about 5 mph he'd turn the wheel ever so slightly and the blip the throttle and it was ya-hoo!! Now THAT was power sliding. He got so good at controlling speed and rate of the spin with a combination of throttle and steering that is was like a ballet dance on wheels!

I really enjoy doing the parking brake thing (drift, slide, un-powerslide, etc.), but am always left longing for the uncomparable fun of rear wheel drive.

Ha! My first front wheel drive was a subaru hatchback and was I dissapointed to discover the parking brake locked the front brakes. Drifting/sliding was almost impossible to do. That was a boring winter!

 

Is it just me or would powersliding be an oxymoron? Your front wheels are the ones powered by the engine and thus drive the car, yet in a FWD car you can only "powerslide" when applying the e-brake to induce extreme oversteer. The driving wheels are not the ones inducing the slide. Now, you cannot "drift," which is simply "a gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention." I really think drift would be the proper term for e-brake application on non-drive wheels, and powerslide would be the proper term for motorsport drifting. Either there's confusion with the original word's meaning - drifting that is - due to the inclusion and rising popularity of the motorsport itself, or the terms are synonymous and intermixed.

Then, think about the term "power braking," in which the drive wheels overcome the braking force of the pads and the static friction between the tire and road to allow them to rotate while keeping the other non-driving wheels still. Wouldn't powersliding simply be using the power of the engine to drive the powered-wheels in order to break the frictional force present on the tire?

That's my reasoning.

Maybe we should call this practice a "parking-brake-slide" or PB-Slide for short.

 

...driftin the focus cant hurt it right??? thats what he told me....(well unless you hit something)

Should be just fine (well unless you hit something)! Also the surface should be flat, level and consistently slick and clear of obstacles (i.e. parked cars, handicapped kids, etc.) Hitting a bump or pothole mid-slide could be bad, and likewise sliding sideways into patches of pavement without snow or ice. Worse of all, the kid might call his parents!

If your bf was driving like a idiot, taking foolish risks with your baby -- like drifting near parked cars, utility poles, ditches, doing high-speed slides, etc. -- you should cut him off.

If he was out showing you how to safely have some real fun with your car in the snow then good for him!

Tearing up a the snow in a big parking lot is a great way to gain understanding, experience and confidence in winter driving.

 

Hey, you made sense; maybe a little wordy but your point is well taken.

Years ago a friend had a 69 Chevelle (sp?) with big fat meats on the back and the skinny (almost dragster like) tires & wheels up front. In a snowy parking lot at about 5 mph he'd turn the wheel ever so slightly and the blip the throttle and it was ya-hoo!! Now THAT was power sliding. He got so good at controlling speed and rate of the spin with a combination of throttle and steering that is was like a ballet dance on wheels!

I really enjoy doing the parking brake thing (drift, slide, un-powerslide, etc.), but am always left longing for the uncomparable fun of rear wheel drive.

Ha! My first front wheel drive was a subaru hatchback and was I dissapointed to discover the parking brake locked the front brakes. Drifting/sliding was almost impossible to do. That was a boring winter!

Tell me about it. Last January I drove through an ice storm just to get to my college and find it was closed for the day. I was so pissed to have driven that far in such unsafe weather (my fault - should've called!), but I saw in the huge empty parking lot next me a Grand Am SE just driving forward playing in the snow. No handbrake... no reverse driving. I was like... BORING.

So, I went over to the lot to play myself on the opposite end (we're talking about a 500-700ft long parking lot or so). At the time, I was driving my T-Bird. Well, let's just say the whole experience wound up making the trip up to school worth it. Even though I couldn't make it up the 5º gradient hill near the bottom unless I had some momentum, it was fun just "smoking" the tires and doing 360s and such for about half an hour.

That car was sooo much fun when it was slick. As a matter of fact, that's about the only time it was fun to drive.

 

I've got a word for that sliding. I call it fun.

Can kill your focus pretty bad with it, though. He slides into a curb, and your tires will be seriously wreaked. Don't let him do it any more. Sliding is fun, but not when you kill your girlfriend's car.

 

I know what you should do. Dump him and give me a call.