FIrst rain after a drought makes the roads very slick. On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < [email protected]> wrote:
> It rained today and they did not seem > To have a problem > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Aug 15, 2016, at 8:10 PM, clay via Mercedes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > OR > > > > it could be that the tires are just fine, but the roads are coated in > snot and baked on oil over the past few days of not having rain. Get a > little wet and the snot gets slicker than … snot. Not enough wet to > actually wash the oil off the roads, just enough to make it an ice rink > > > > clay > > > >> On Aug 14, 2016, at 1:48 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> So I have this set of Pirelli P7s on my 98 e300 that have maybe 15-20k > miles on them now. These are 70k mile tires. Still have plenty of tread. > Friday driving back home we had a little light rain and the roads were wet. > I had an occasion going around a curve at about 30 and the rear ended > started to try and slide. Also was coming to a stop and abs started kicking > in. These always had good traction even in a downpour. So it seems after > 20k their traction has gone to hell. I went to far as to pull over and make > sure I did not have a low tire in the back. > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> 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 > > _______________________________________ 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
