If you only have Studs on the front, if you brake hard on a slippery road, that rear end is going to come around and say hello!Get some studs, go to a snowy hill that is wide and open and practice various techniques of driving up that hill. You MUST do all for wheels for safety when braking. Do you have after market wide tires or are you running stock?As I mentioned before, STUDDED SNOW TIRES are the best winter friend of a 2 wheel drive automobile. Yes the engine was in the rear over the drive wheels but they truly lacked the ability to transmit speed to the rear wheels so it was easy to not spin the wheels.They also had narrow tires on them.A WIDE tire is great in rain, sucks in snow. This is one reason old VW's used to be great in snow. You dig a hole, you heat up the snow and polish the area under the spinning wheel into really slick glare ice which provides just about ZERO traction.In a stick shift, in snow, you want to all but lug the engine, transmit power to the wheels but not speed for speed spins. In your previous post you ask if it is lacking power? Truth be told, it's got too much power and sadly with an automatic that power is tough to control in an automatic.Spinning wheels in snow is your mortal enemy! It does nothing but make a car that can't go in snow. You are aware that the VIBE is indeed a Toyota Corolla with different skin?By and large, it is more difficult to successfully drive an automatic in the snow than it is a stick shift. IF a Toyota Corolla is pulling the slope, there is not a reason in the world that your VIBE won't make the same slope.

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