Got stuck in a snow squall yesterday and I white knuckled my way home. Wouldn't stop well at all. Had to slow down first.
3 year old all season tires & snow no go
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Not too far. It started just after I left home to go to Uxbridge to get a new SSD drive. It was coming back that was dicey. So about 10 KM's I'd guess.
Murray, I was caught out in some light slush before my change over this year. No control at all....
Not "same day". Plus they didn't have the WD 1TD SSD I wanted for next day even. It was my home drive that I lost.
Bare in mind that they are 3 years old. GM drove the C8 mules all winter on the A/S PS4's. I did get caught another time when they were new and it wasn't too bad. Though they are too wide to be effective on snow IMO.
I took home one of our dealer loaners yesterday a 2024 Audi Q5 with all season tires. The car would not turn or stop.
My C8 with winter tires is 100 times better in the snow.
My C8 with winter tires is 100 times better in the snow.
I brought my car home from the dealer after some warranty work in October and there was a slight skiff of snow the previous day that had frozen down onto the road. My wife warned me as she was driving ahead of me, but I nearly put the car up on the curb and almost spun out a second time. Those OEM tires do not like the snow!
Agreed ,a narrow tire is better in snow every time. How many miles/km on those tires ?
I have MICHELIN® Defender® LTX® M/S 2 on my Tundra and find them very good. And we get real winters here for some reason.
No, I separate all my personal stuff onto a totally different drive. All my documents etc. Programs are still stored on C but that is easy to replace if disaster happens. I can just reinstall most programs if I have to, but personal files are hard if not impossible when disaster happens. It's all backed up on 3 other drives of course. When I worked, all my unix systems had the home drives separated from operating system drives. Makes things so much easier to restore. It's very hard to move Windows "user home" to a separate drive so I don't bother. Any program that wants to save to home is changed to save to H instead.
One thing I wish Windows would do is dynamic links. Then I'd point C:/user/murray to H:/murray but you can't do that with Windows
I like Raid 1 arrays for that but I also picked up a usb-c 2 TB external NVME for the really important stuff. They have gotten very reasonable in price lately especially if you snag a sale. In my opinion the “ cloud “ is for the birds .
Bunny hop
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I have had a lot of sports cars , in my life and I use to use all season tires , until they made winter tires, law, in Quebec. Never had problems with 4 season tires but I have to admit , good winter tires on sports cars , especially rear wheel drive cars, they do make a big difference.
That's my dilemma. Do I replace the A/S with performance and get new rims and snows for the winter? or just replace them with A/S.
We don't want or need to drive it on snow, but you never know when a lake effect squall will hit.
Absolutely better off with true winters especially the “ x-ice “ et el variety.
Not a big issue here as we don’t use salt because it’s too cold and the snow packs down hard and with the really cold temperatures most of the time traction is really good. I still think that, unfortunately, I will be parking the Stingray due to the-35 and-40 we frequently get as no vehicle should be run in that unless necessary in my humble.
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