Indeed, narrower tires = better in the snow. And as far as the rear window he's not referring to hail damage, he's referring to the fact that in Atlanta the air/heat will cause the glue to soften in the rear window....making it fall out sooner. Even though all of the roadsters do eventually.

 

Thanks guys for all opinions.
I am already in Toronto (actually in Brampton) for a week and realized how expensive this city can be. I think I cannot afford another car.
Just decided to be in a strategic place in Toronto downtown and work by bus. I'm gonna enjoy my car only during non-snowing period and commuit by public transportation during winter. Let's see how it goes.
I am already missing my car, it is still on its way here.
Btw, do you have any average idea of how much a 05 conv. insurance can cost here?

 

Insurance:
My original quote for a 2006 was 1011 for 12 months, but when prorated for just 6 months, my insurance company said it will be $625 (Fire & Theft for the off season)...

 

FANTASTIC......

 

Hi,
I've read many posts but haven't got to a conclusion about daylight running light. Mine is an automatic and someone mentioned it only needs to be reprogrammed to Canada. Others mention I still need to replace the switch. Which one is true?
Any suggestion for a good rustproofing in GTA?
@droid - my insurance is almost triple of yours...
I'll though call them during winter time to reduce the coverage to fire & theif hopefully decreasing the total amount.

 

Snow tires definetly do the trick. Even with the normal wheel sizes. You just need to know what you are doing.

Last winter was incredibly harsh in Germany and the only way of transportation I had was a V8 Supercharged Jaguar, which was exactly the same tire size as we do have in the back, and of course rear-wheel drive.

Snows tires are the way to go if you dont wanna buy a second car. And for even worse conditions, get snow chains........When you drive on ice, there isent much you can do anyways....

Atleast thats just my experience

 

Finally got the Ontario's plates and it is all set. Let me keep enjoying this beautiful summer (believe me, it is really hard to even think Toronto can get snow lol). I decided not to use the car during winter.
By the way, is there any statistic about how many Xfires in Toronto? I think I have seen more than I thought it would be here, around 4 or 5 during 5 weeks that I am living here.

 

I have a yellow roadster like yours. I live 30mi from the Canadian border in NY in the lake effect snow belt. I switch over to my second set of factory rims mounted with Bridgestone Blizzaks in October. This thing has excellent traction control with the manual transmission. No issue except you may want to run it through the car wash with the under wash spray a few times per month like I do.

 

Hi,

Just wondering what happened with th etaxes when you imported into Ontario assuming you did it after the new HST/13% RST came into effect. Did you have to pay the Michigan taxes? Did they charge you the GST at the border and then the 13% rst when you registered?

Thanks

 

This winter has been especially snowy for Minnesota, and I've got along fine. I keep my Roadster in a garage, which is key: a good blizzard, dumping 4 feet of snow on the top might be more weight than it can hold.
I bough Blizzaks for all 4 wheels. My mechanic said the nature of those tires is that they are slightly damaged every time you pull them off/put them on, so I made these my "winter" wheel/tire set, and am buying a new set of wheels for the summer tires.
I've driven through streets covered with 4-5" of snow, and haven't been able to spin 'er out yet, even when I've deliberately tried. Full set was about $1200, but worth every penny, IMO.

 

Don't drive it in the winter, i live in rochester, about 80 miles south of Toronto . You can get the 18 in. snow tires, the car might drive ok in the snow , but bottom line it will rot from the inside from all the salt on the roads. If you drive it and park it in a warm garage at night it will rot twice as fast. get a winter clunker, put a good cover on the crossfire and start driving her in april after there have been a few good rain showers to wash the winter salt away. Only my opinion but winter will do a job on a car no matter how well its undercoated. Around here the cars rot from the bottom and inside out.

 

If you plan on licensing the vehicle in Ontario, you will need to got through the process of importing it which means that you'll have to comply with legislation for DRL and for a front plate.

Because you are the owner, I'm guessing that there is no need to pay federal or provincial tax (but I'm not certain... I cna't imagine that though).

If this is your daily driver, consider putting this car away from Dec to end of March. Especially if it is that gorgeous yellow. Otherwise, get 4 snow tires on the cheapest, most narrow rims that are available and consider rustproofing the car. I cannot imagine being happy about looking at salt on my cloth roof and even worse about taking a cloth roof through the car wash and then into the freezing temps. Bit the bullet, take the liability insurance off for the winter and buy a beater.

The snow is nothing if you stay around the city, and even in the worst snow, the streets are cleaned in a day, it's just crappy and messy. Too harsh for a nice Crossfire. Alternatively, drop the price down into my price range and sell it to me! Lots of guys seem to own two.... I'd like that!

 

I'm in Montreal..

I was using my first Crossfire in the winter. I've try with 4 seasons tires. That was horrible. Next winter I bought snow tires and put 2 sand bag of 50lbs in the trunk. That was not so good.

Then I bought my roadster AND a new winter beater, leaving the Crossfire in the garage about 3 to 4 month

 

Thanks for all the comments guys. It has been a while since I visited the website (very busy at work).
Anyways I decided not to drive during winter and my car is hibernating in the parking lot since beginning of December. Mostly because I couldn't imagine it with salt all around.
Regarding the question for the taxes and stuff, I have moved here under a temporary workpermit so it seems that I am exempt of most of the taxes (if I remember correctly I just paid few dollars in the customs and that was all) however I believe I am not allowed to sell it here in Canada though I have no plans to sell it anyways.

 

I store mine for the winter months. Keeps the salt off.

 

One last thing - Preserving your XF by not driving in the winter will go a lot further with a simple rust spray - not undercoat. Use Krown rust control. It's relatively inexpensive and does a fantastic job. Even if your car is parked, it's still subject to humidity and condensation. Nothing can completely stop rust, but Krown protects it, lubricates the hinges, etc., protects the wiring connections and comes the closest to stopping the rust as anything that I've seen.
And for those of you that think that consistently washing the underside is good, it's actually one of the worse things that you can do. When it's below freezing outside there's nothing really happening. But if you continually try to wash the underside, you will be constantly reactivating the salt and corrosion process. The worst rusting actually occurs in the spring when we expose our cars to the freeze/thaw cycles. So spray it with Krown. It will soak into the seams and cracks where rust can take hold and you can't wash the salt away.
That's my commercial.

 

Same here. I live in Lansing, MI and I can't justify taking it out, even if there's no snow on the roads. The amount of salt they dump here is outrageous.

Also, I have the condensation headlamp problem (I bought the TSB kit but haven't installed yet) and I don't want salty moisture getting into the headlamps until I get that fixed. I'm hoping to have it out in mid-March full time.

 

That's the best way to keep them nice in the north country.

 

I live just outside of Toronto and you don't won't to destroy that nice little yellow car. The yellow ones are too rare to let the salt eat it. Do yourself a favour and put it in storage. If you've never been exposed to winter driving you should at the very least, store the car for your first winter you're here. After one winter of Toronto driving you'll see what we mean.

 

We've had a string of nice weather here in Michigan so I'll admit that I've had the Crossfire out a few days. I feel no harm in taking it out although I always take it through the wash before I put it back into the storage space at night.