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Offline Shane Sawatzki

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Re: newbie winter tires question
« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2010, 11:15:55 am »
i want out in the snow with bald performance all seasons on the rear and 20% on the front... i made it everywhere the island DSM guys made it  ;D although i was definetly slidin around a bit I just drove extremely cautious and used common sense and i was fine. Im lookin at getting a set of 18x10 +16 offset wheels and 285/35zr18 tires... so im too cheap to spend 500$ on 4 winter tires when thats 500$ that could go towards a nice set of wheels. As for my shitty little 17x7.5 +40 rims and bald 215/40zr17 tires... they will have to do untill summer  :D
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Offline John Hartman

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Re: newbie winter tires question
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2010, 07:13:13 pm »
just because you can make it doesn't mean you should, or even that you always will.
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Offline Shane Sawatzki

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Re: newbie winter tires question
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2010, 09:15:17 pm »
just because you can make it doesn't mean you should, or even that you always will.

lol trust me i know... i really was concerned about getting down this huge hill that i struggled to get up. i made all the DSM's go first to create decent ruts in the slushy snow haha
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Offline Drew Sale

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Re: newbie winter tires question
« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2010, 03:40:25 pm »
my buddies and i went up seymour to go boarding and there were trucks, cars, jeeps everything getting stuck up there. i went up the next day with my fwd sedan with snow tires and had no issues with the snow. i was super reluctant to take my car but i wanted to go riding really bad so i just took it anyways. my snowies held up really really well. as defensive as i was driving, they had no issues traversing the snow
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Offline John Hartman

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Re: newbie winter tires question
« Reply #19 on: December 03, 2010, 10:36:23 pm »
yea a few years back, BCDSM did a Mt Seymor run just for fun, donuts in parking lots etc.

In my good all season tires and awd, plus learning how to drive in northern Ab and snow, I got schooled by Marty in his FWD on snow tires,  Lots of us got stuck.  Marty and a 4x4 Jeep pulled us out.

Course on the icy/less snowy parking lots I could do awd donuts and he couldn't  :D
91 Eagle Talon TSi 5spd awd.  GT-12, TriFlow Cams, 850s, Tial, JIC, Jackal, sticky rubber.
86 Merkur XR4Ti 5spd, rwd, turbo, 91,381km.  Original paint, heated leather. intercooled, big VAM, Full 3" exhaust, Cossie sway bar, 16" tires.
06 Mazdaspeed6 6spd awd, DISI turbo, heated leather HIDs, Corksport, Cobb, Konig, Centric...
2018 VW Golf Alltrack turbo Tornado Red, 6mt, some free mods