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Rick Lizek
01-03-2016, 9:41 AM
http://nordicplow.com/products-car.php
Do a search on you tube...
snow plows for cars, very clever ideas.

http://nordicplow.com/products-car.php

Pat Barry
01-03-2016, 9:59 AM
About $600? I would like to see how it does on the mountain of snow my city street plow gives me at the end of the driveway every snowfall because if it could handle that I would buy one.

Eduard Nemirovsky
01-03-2016, 10:43 AM
I doubt it will work for more than a few inches of snow, even then I don't want to damage hood on my car.

Rich Riddle
01-03-2016, 12:43 PM
It wouldn't do well for the transmission of a car as well.

Matt Meiser
01-03-2016, 12:58 PM
Ever see what a plow truck looks like after a few years? The local company around the corner from our house puts theirs up for sale. Often they are bent in the middle. That's with a truck with a full frame. Now imagine doing that to a car.

Matt Day
01-03-2016, 2:08 PM
I wouldn't be too worried about the tranny, especially on a manual, but it seems like it could do a number on the body work. What if you clip the curb at the end of the driveway or have a bump where the your driveway meets the road? What happens to the car's bodywork?

Mike Circo
01-04-2016, 8:41 AM
I see traction, especially with two wheel drive cars as the biggest issue. Once you get a small pile of snow up front, you'd be slipping quickly.
For that price I could get a nice snowblower and not worry about damaging my hood, bumper, transmission or fenders on my $30,000 car.
Clever, but ultimately in the same category of the stuff sold in "As Seen on TV" infomercials.

Mike Cutler
01-04-2016, 8:52 AM
It's a neat idea, sort of like some of the "cobbled" together rigs I've seen from time to time on cars around here. Usually those on are on an old "beater" that the person doesn't care about. I wouldn't put one on a new car, or one I wanted to keep.
It must ride on skids, so you'll be out there with a shovel or scraper anyway, or you'll get ice.

I think I'll stick with the John Deere, w/plow, and the Cub Cadet blower for now. ;)

Myk Rian
01-04-2016, 3:22 PM
Red Green made one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPYFbGveWlQ

Myk Rian
01-04-2016, 3:25 PM
About $600? I would like to see how it does on the mountain of snow my city street plow gives me at the end of the driveway every snowfall because if it could handle that I would buy one.
Red Green also fixed that problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbhgEecy1uE

Bob Turkovich
01-04-2016, 5:02 PM
Passenger car differentials (FWD, RWD or AWD) are designed to be fine-pitched for better NVH and wouldn't take the shock loading from plowing. Truck differentials are coarser pitch and better designed to handle the shock loads.

Clearly, a user-beware product.

Bill Orbine
01-04-2016, 5:13 PM
No.... Cheaper to pay somebody else to beat the crap out their snow plow vehicle. Might be good for pushing leaves, maybe.

Tony Zona
01-04-2016, 5:28 PM
what in the world is NVH, please?

Randy Rose
01-04-2016, 5:41 PM
what in the world is NVH, please?


Noise Vibration Harshness

Tony Zona
01-04-2016, 6:37 PM
Of course.

Myk Rian
01-04-2016, 7:42 PM
I thought it was Neuro Vascular Herniation.

Bob Turkovich
01-04-2016, 9:24 PM
I thought it was Neuro Vascular Herniation.

Myk, Didn't you work for Ford? If so, that explains a lot :D.

Myk Rian
01-04-2016, 9:39 PM
Work for Ford? Yeah. We'll go with that.