Driving in the Snow

[skiba]

Just mounted a set of studded Hankook winter I-Pikes. Noisy, but head and shoulders above standard ice radials. If they are legal where you live, consider them. I just bought this car 3 weeks ago, always been a hatchback guy. -22C outside tonight, won't see melting till Easter. Love the driving experience, 150 days to work on my drifting skills.

[96silver318ti]

Originally Posted by skiba

Just mounted a set of studded Hankook winter I-Pikes. Noisy, but head and shoulders above standard ice radials. If they are legal where you live, consider them. I just bought this car 3 weeks ago, always been a hatchback guy. -22C outside tonight, won't see melting till Easter. Love the driving experience, 150 days to work on my drifting skills.

lol. awesome. i love to drive this car in the snow. take off the traction control, whip around, get stuck, turn TC back on and off you go.

[96silver318ti]

I live in mass, so we get some pretty bad winters, last year i just used snow tires in the rear and reg on the front and was able to get along fine.

[pdxmotorhead]

The need for chains is dependent on snow type,, the west coastal adjacent mountains tend to get what we call concrete, packed ice and snow mix that gets slimy on the surface. Its why the CHP makes you chain up 2wd vehicles with snow tires, the surface changes and chains keep everybody going slow.

Dave

[Speedwell]

My daughter is moving to Utah so she purchased a couple of 225/50SR16 Firestone Winterforce from Tirerack for the rear of her ti. She would have liked to do four but her funds would not allow it. These look like they should do the job though (along with a couple sand bags in the trunk). Snow tires have really come a long way in 20 years.
I let her know that the S rated tires will change her steering response a bit for the worse but as long as she understands this there should be a payoff in traction.[ATTACH][/ATTACH]

[geetarspaz]

Wow! Pretty good tread on those tires.. She really should get them on the front to. YouTube, my new bible, has lot of videos showing examples with using no snow tires, just two, and all, and there's a good difference from two to all. Check it out.

[tiFreak]

if you have to do only two I'd recommend putting them on the front instead, either way it's going to be prone to either understeer or oversteer depending on which end doesn't have snow tires

[teetime4one]

obviously my car just sits in the snow...lol
this was a test...thanks Brendan!
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