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ebenasky
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 Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 2:07 pm Post subject: Studded tires on dry pavement |
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The other day I was going just a little too fast and the light changed to red (ok, a lotta too fast). Lucky for me that there weren't any other cars around because my bug decided to start doing the under steer thing.
Since I was used to doing this on purpose when I was younger (I think the kids call it drifting now), I had it under control.
Well - sort of under control. After having the back end try to come over to one side and then the other, I came to a rest at a slight angle.
Besides no traffic I was lucky Johnny Law wasn't around as well.
I just sat in my car and kind of whooped it up, like I meant to do that for the benefit of the cars in the on-coming lane. 
I realized that I probably won't have had any problems if my rears were studded snow tires. They are getting changed out soon!
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Mike Fisher
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Better hurry since you have to take them off in April for the summer months.
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mark tucker
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| I miss the drifting days in japan in the early 70's with my brother&other friends.what a blast we had teaching the Oriental kids how to do it. |
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notchback
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Mike Fisher wrote: |
| Better hurry since you have to take them off in April for the summer months. |
All depends on where you live.
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hopkin 
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Back in day (late '70s and '80s) I was a bit crazy and almost always accelerated my Beetles into corners during the winter, using the handbrake to slide around the corner, the slippery the roads the better. Tires than had seen too many years added to the fun.
Maybe a little crazy then, but as the years went by the experience (of knowing how to control a skidding car) has been invaluable here in the snowy north.
That kind of training should be mandatory.
Studded tires haven't been allowed in Ontario for decades.
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Brian
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| hopkin wrote: |
That kind of training should be mandatory.
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Yes. And I wouldn't bother with studs.
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:19 pm Post subject: Re: Studded tires on dry pavement |
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| ebenasky wrote: |
| The other day I was going just a little too fast and the light changed to red (ok, a lotta too fast). Lucky for me that there weren't any other cars around because my bug decided to start doing the under steer thing. |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that be oversteer?
I took the studded snows of my 2wd Toyota pickup a few weeks ago. We have had an almost non-existent winter, and what little snow we had is long gone.
I agree that learning to slide around in the snow when I was young was a great lesson for future slick situations. I grew up in Northern MN, and spent many evenings cruising around in my '68 Plymouth Satellite doing donuts in parking lots. We would drive out onto the frozen lakes at night with the lights off and make giant sliding circles, steering with the throttle the whole time. We never had studs or tire chains, (illegal) snow tires, (expensive) or 4WD, (also expensive). I never got stuck and never went in the ditch. I did have a 100 pound manhole cover in the trunk, though. 
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Malokin Martin
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Ah to be 16 and broke again.... Studded snow tires were a luxury only oil barons and professional athletes could afford.
I remember changing the tires when they started to grow hair. |
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