Siberia is snow covered, which means New England is going to get WHACKED again this winter.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > 4 wheel drive is most of the time a waste of gas, snow tires are a > wonderful thing. I'll be putting the snows on the Jetta next week. The Golf > came with nice looking all season tires, I'll give them a shot, if they > don't work out I'll get a set of ugly wheels and put some snows on that > too.I usually use really cheap snow tires and have had really good luck, > even cheap snows are better than most all season tires in the snow and ice. > My '98 Jetta was a disaster with all season tires, with snows it'll go > anywhere it can keep the tires on the ground. I got narrow tires 175 > something R14 where my summer tires are 185 something R14. Most folks run > 205 something R14 on them... > Of course last week at camp I ran the 4wd in the Dodge a bunch, found some > really sloppy wet mud that challenged it. That truck is due for tires soon, > it'll get something a little more aggressive this time. > -Curt > > From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 4:07 PM > Subject: [MBZ] in praise of 4 wheel drive > > We got a taste of winter late yesterday. > A bit white looking around here now. > Only an inch or so but it made for slippery roads. There was a 20 car > pileup on Bishop Grandin Blvd last night. > One would think that people who live in the GWN would remember from year > to year that one must slow down when things turn white and leave a bit > more space between cars. > I have been driving for about 46 winters now and I managed ok. > I went to a funeral for a friend this morning which meant a drive of 30 > miles or so in each direction. Took the perimeter highway from the south > side, around the east side to the north side and then took a highway a > few miles north from there. Windy so blowing snow and some snow on the > roadway in spots. Always wonder about the spots without snow - slippery > or not? Got to say that 4 wheel drive is a wonderful thing. > > RB > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
