I have never had ANY problems in my VX. I was out this morning early. I actually get out as early as possible to get as much virgin road time as possible.
The roads this morning near my place were real slick, there was ice beneath the snow and was by far the slickest I've seen. Even with this the VX did awesome. I found the worse hill I could. There were 4x4 pickups (no weight in the back was their problem) that had to turn around. I went up, turned around, and back up at least 6 times and had a blast. The whole morning only saw 2 other vehicles make it up the hill.
Once I had to pull right off the road and actually up onto the sidewalk and nearly into someone's yard. 2 people were trying to turn around at nearly the same spot and a guy couldn't stop coming down the hill forcing me off the road to avoid collision damage. When I went to start again I couldn't get moving, even with winter mode.
I had to go into 4WD, which worked great and got me out of the deeper snow on the hill. That was probably the worse I've had and the VX did great. I just don't know what would have happened to you this morning. I have stock tires too.
Jay
Pic added to gallery before heading out this morning:
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/sh...php?photo=3006