Summer tires and cold weather
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Originally Posted by ts80,Dec 16 2008, 12:02 PM
I don't know if any of you remember, there was that huge winter storm ripping through the northeast during Christmas of 2002.
I was in college at the time, me and 3 buddies of mine hopped into my Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec V the morning of the storm. The car had summer performance tires on. We were heading towards California for a wedding (leaving from about 20 minutes north of New York City).
The storm was so bad that the entire highway was empty for about 6 hours. Not a single other car. We were going about 20-40 mph for the first day. At night the snow was so heavy that we had to turn our headlights off. With them on it reflected the snow and it created a wall of snow you couldn't see past...used hazard lights only.
Next entire day was very icy, and the snow levels had dropped, but we were picking up so much ice/snow in the wheels that we had to stop every hour because the wheel balance would get thrown off and shake like crazy.
Of course, we get to California and are crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains and they threaten to ticket us if we didn't put on snow chains because there was a light dusting of snow on the ground.
edited slightly for grammar
I was in college at the time, me and 3 buddies of mine hopped into my Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec V the morning of the storm. The car had summer performance tires on. We were heading towards California for a wedding (leaving from about 20 minutes north of New York City).
The storm was so bad that the entire highway was empty for about 6 hours. Not a single other car. We were going about 20-40 mph for the first day. At night the snow was so heavy that we had to turn our headlights off. With them on it reflected the snow and it created a wall of snow you couldn't see past...used hazard lights only.
Next entire day was very icy, and the snow levels had dropped, but we were picking up so much ice/snow in the wheels that we had to stop every hour because the wheel balance would get thrown off and shake like crazy.
Of course, we get to California and are crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains and they threaten to ticket us if we didn't put on snow chains because there was a light dusting of snow on the ground.
edited slightly for grammar
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Just had to drive my S yesterday in snow and ice with my RE-01r's on it. Way scarier than my civic with all seasons (rain/snow car), but it was unavoidable. My experience has been as long as you are extremely gentle with your inputs you'll be ok. Never gonna drive in those conditions again though, thats what the civic is for.
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Well im in Vancouver, BC and we've been getting snowfall warning for the past few days. So thats crap and the temp has been down to -10 degrees celcius...the lowest its gone since i lived here for the past 10 years. As long as the road is dry...as cold as it is...i've been okay daily driving the car...once ice/snow hits...im pretty much screwed...:/
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