This is why I give all you poor, uh, folks a hard time. I paid my dues and lived most of my life in the Midwest and dealt with all that damn snow. When I see this stuff on the news I just sit back and laaaaaugh.
Brice living where bad weather means a constant rain for over 15 minutes -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Winter driving In a message dated 1/19/2000 11:45:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Based on my limited experience with the P600's (there was a set on my car when I bought it), your best bet is to do just that. Let it sit. 2nd gear starts will help somewhat, since it will drag the engine really far down on its torque curve, but braking will still stink. Ditto for handling. Being as gentle with your control inputs as possible is the key from an operator's standpoint. If ya really wanna go in the snow, you need snow tires. Some swear by Blizzaks (I'm in that camp), but there are any number of other good ones. >> ive got an idea, all you guys that live in the mild climates can come live in ohio and learn how to drive in snow, ill live there while you do...hehe...i have a set of snow tires on my 87 16v...i havent really had any problems with our ohio winter so far, of course this is comming from the guy that ran last winter on pirelli P8000s <performance rain tires from NTB> and one snow storm on 205/40R16 A520 yokohamas <that time i got caught with my pants down>. with performance tires your going to have problems in winter, but if its only 2 storms a year its kind of a waste to switch tires for it... -Mike PS i dont care what you tell me, if you never lived a winter above the mason/dixon line you dont know how to drive in snow, unless you drove through a cold state in winter _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
