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You need all the help you can get driving in Michigan...have you seen some of the people that live there....WHOA!!:D
 
98CayenneTA said:
Snow tires make a massive difference, really not even debatable.

Your only example is in a tin can rwd dakato? :dunno:

It makes a big difference in fwd vehicle's and a massive difference in awd
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Please, do not talk to me like I know nothing about tires. Additionally, it is pretty poor taste brand bashing with such terms as "tin can", that may just be my feeling, however. As a 16 year old buying his first car an AMG wasn't in the budget. So excuse me.

Winter tires do make a difference. Yes. But why would I spend the cash on them if my All-seasons have never left me stranded? I put my VWs in sport mode, the LSD locks, and off I go with my Michelin PS4s.
 
PouncingPanzer said:
Please, do not talk to me like I know nothing about tires. Additionally, it is pretty poor taste brand bashing with such terms as "tin can", that may just be my feeling, however. As a 16 year old buying his first car an AMG wasn't in the budget. So excuse me.

Winter tires do make a difference. Yes. But why would I spend the cash on them if my All-seasons have never left me stranded? I put my VWs in sport mode, the LSD locks, and off I go with my Michelin PS4s.
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Awfully sensative bud.... I can assume the Dakota is a heavy tank then ?

I was just implying that it is a light vehicle and a 2wd pickup at that.... not really a fair shake to make a judgment on weather a snow tire is adequate or not.

And Michelin PS4 are good in the snow said no one ever.
Put snow tires on all 4 corners of the VW and it would be a night and day difference.
 
It's pretty simple here, all-seasons try to be all things to all people, winter tires do this....perform when temps are below 45 degrees and go through snow, period! The below 45 degree thing is even more important because for alot of us that's "prime time" and where all-seasons are getting harder a d harder and making contact with a very hard ground, our winter tires are staying pliable

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KA nailed it with the "Temp"...most tires get harder than Chinese algebra under 40 degrees
 
Bosko said:
KA nailed it with the "Temp"...most tires get harder than Chinese algebra under 40 degrees
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My issue would be how do winter tires hold up to an 85+ degree warm spell during the winter in the mid-states? Do they wear more in hot weather?
 
dgage said:
My issue would be how do winter tires hold up to an 85+ degree warm spell during the winter in the mid-states? Do they wear more in hot weather?
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In my years in Alaska I have tried Bridgestone Blizzak winter tires twice

Once on a 2002 Tundra and once on a 2004 Audi TT

In both cases they were good snow tires but nowhere near as good on ice as studded tires but that is expected, although they were better than “all weather tires” by a wide margin

Also in both cases as they came near the end of their useful winter life it was spring and I left them on into the summer

As you know it can get 85-90 up here in the summer and in both cases they just kind of finished wearing out maybe a bit faster due to the softer compound but it’s not like huge chunks were flinging off going down the road

I haven’t tried any more simply because studded tires are vastly superior on ice


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dgage said:
My issue would be how do winter tires hold up to an 85+ degree warm spell during the winter in the mid-states? Do they wear more in hot weather?
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Well you've got 2 choices, one is to swap back your 3 season set up or "suck it up" and drive on them, or try and not drive, LOL.

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Thought I'd post my fresh set because of our conversation
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dgage said:
My issue would be how do winter tires hold up to an 85+ degree warm spell during the winter in the mid-states? Do they wear more in hot weather?
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I kept my winter tires on through a Minnesota summer on a beater I used to have lol.

Handling suffered a bit but it did not have excessive tread wear.
 
Bosko said:
KA nailed it with the "Temp"...most tires get harder than Chinese algebra under 40 degrees
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Just do a quick hit of a burn out when ya pull outta the driveway to get'em hot! Then ya gots all the traction haha

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Snowing and sticking and I have to drive out to Eagle River

Haven’t swapped tires yet

It’s not me or my skills I’m worried about

It’s the other morons on the road


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chilly said:
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Snowing and sticking and I have to drive out to Eagle River

Haven’t swapped tires yet

It’s not me or my skills I’m worried about

It’s the other morons on the road


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Oh no

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Klasse Act said:
Oh no

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It comes with the territory

The worst thing about Anchorage is we have an enormous Air Force and Army joint base and every year we get a huge influx of airmen and soldiers that have never seen snow, much less driven on it

But they have bad @$$ 4x4 rigs with mudders and stuffs and they think they are invincible

Sadly they usually take a few of us out when they stuff it in the ditch


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Klasse Act said:
Well you've got 2 choices, one is to swap back your 3 season set up or "suck it up" and drive on them, or try and not drive, LOL.
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All season tires seem to be good in the 20s, it was the summer tires that didn’t like it below 40. But I learned to drive in Alaska on ice so I can handle it. :)
 
Sold the Hellcat (another dealer gave me $7000 more for it than what I paid) and picked up the Redeye version!
Spent a total of 39hrs 3-stage polishing her. This weekend time for hand bath of GTechnig EXO & CSL

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IID said:
Thought I would try a different way of posting a pic, so it don’t show up so small
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Ugh, guess that didn’t work.
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Uhh, that’s still small. :) Tough looking car! But where are the yellow wear strips that are required on all Dodge Hellcats? :) It’s funny how a protective piece became so fashionable.
 
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