Originally Posted by
Braymond141
Just leave the snow on next time. When you push that snow off you're also grinding all the dirt into the clear coat heavily scratching it!
"Just leaving the snow on" really isn't a good idea when you get heavy snowfall (we got 10+ inches in about 12 hours recently). All the snow you leave on the hood will constantly blow up onto your windshield while you're driving (making for the visibility of driving in a blizzard for a few minutes), and all the snow on your roof will blow onto the people behind you, annoying the piss out of them. If it comes off in huge chunks instead of blowing off, they'll get even more annoyed when a giant snow chunk the size of a couch cushion blows off your roof and hits their windshield. It's also a pretty decent idea to clear snow off of areas of your car like the headlights, taillights, and turn signals for safety's sake.
Not to mention that when the snow slides off in a chunk via the force of the wind, it's really no different to your paint in terms of dirt being moved across the surface than the snow sliding off in a chunk via the force of a snowbrush in the driveway. At least there you can be careful and/or just brush off the majority of the snow and leave a small amount that's stuck to the car, thereby avoiding brushing directly on the painted surface.
I park my car in a garage at home, but at work it gets snowed on...I'd rather carefully remove it vs. drive around with snow flying off my car. On a related note, you haven't lived until you've been speeding up behind a semi when a GIANT chunk of snowy ice flies off the top of the semi trailer at your windshield. Winter wonderland indeed.
--Ryan
1997 Cosmosschwarz Metallic M3 Coupe
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