If you live in Arizona, you don’t have worry regarding how your Mercedes handles in a winter wonderland. Some aren’t so blessed, and that means they’ll have to consider the weather when they buy their Mercedes car and when they drive it.

Mercedes Benz cars are in general a rear-wheel drive outfit, and that sends chills down the spines of persons who have to drive in snow and ice. Fortunately, there’s not one thing to fear if equip your Mercedes car in the right way when your buy it.

Buying right is gorgeous easy. If you need severe snow and ice handling for a good percentage of the year, you might consider a 4MATIC all wheel drive model. You’ll find these in assorted body styles, like sedans (C-Class, E-Class and S-Class), light trucks and SUVs (G-Class, GL-Class and M-Class) and the R-Class and E-Class crossovers and wagons. By most accounts from owners living in heavy winter areas like Alaska, the roadsters are poor winter cars, but that’s in all probability evident to most potential buyers.

But an all wheel drive model isn’t the only option. You may do just fine with a two wheel drive model, in spite of the rear wheel drive design. All you need to do is winterize your Mercedes  car appropriately.

You could in all probability spend thousands of dollars to winterize your Mercedes, but there’s genuinely no need to do that. The Benz engineers have helped you by building in traction control on some models. That helps with acceleration and deceleration.

Other than taking such good sense measures like attempting not to drive in the early morning hours (when it’s coldest) and keeping to main roads (which either get plowed better or get more use and, thus, better snow melt), the single biggest step you may take to winterize your Mercedes car is to fit it with good winter or all-weather tires.

Buying winter tires is much like picking out shoes-there are so a lot of choices to choose from that it may be bewildering. But two tires seem to stand out.

The basi is Goodyear’s Eagle Ultra Grip line. These tires were designed with sport coupes and sedans in mind, specifically to improve road traction in wet or snowy conditions. But they’re in all probability fine for a more modest C-Class sedan as well. Sylvie Rainville tried numerous out on a C-Class for a GuideAuto review, and said it the car performed better than a four wheel drive vehicle with all weather tires.

The second tire you might want to look at is the Bridgestone Blizzak. This is an spacious tested tire designed for winter weather. Their Multicell compound looks like Swiss cheese beneath a microscope, with uniformly passed around pores to wick away water on the surface of ice and snow and grip the surface better. Mercedes Benz forums are full of recommendations for them as winter tires.

As you might imagine, winter tires are for winter. You’ll want to swap them out for summer or all weather tires from roughly mid-April to mid-November in most elements of the United States. You’ll have to spend galore extra cash on tires to have sets for two seasons, but the upgrade in safety is worth the expense.

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