Stock Tires

[cosic]

I will be dipping my toes into winter driving after a 15 yr hiatus. Equipped poorly with brand new goodyear eagle GT in 225/45ZR18... wish me luck. 18 degrees and 2 feet on the ground in places, another 8 inches expected tomorrow.

We don't need to wish you luck. As someone stated on the first page, it's all about SKILL! If you're skilled enough, burn out the first inch of tread off all your tires and lets see you survive winter..

 

[zoomdoom]

Burn off inch of tread lmao wtf are u smokin are we runnin on negative tread(braindead. Anyway i wish u luck unique just take it slow and watch out for others.

 

[AutoEuphoria]

The problem isn't so much the tread, but the compound. Below freezing they turn into rocks

 

[SingleFin1969]

My .02 cents. I recently lived in Stockholm, Sweden for a few years and drove through snow and ice all winter. I bought Blizzaks for our FWD vechile and they worked perfectly. I tried the silly guy thing of trying to drive with summer tires after the first snow and almost got stuck on a slight incline (front wheels were spinning but I was not going anywhere). I went home and put on the Blizzaks (which were on steel rims). With the snow tires, we went everywhere without any problems... even during snow storms.

Do yourself, and everyone else, a favor and buy good winter tires.

 

[340CID]

Funny how no one will ever admit to being a bad driver, yet there are millions of them out there. It's also funny how every MS3 driver who does not have snow tires for their car is a 'skilled/experienced' driver who can defy the laws of physics. I guess that makes the people who have snow tires on their MS3 bad, poor or only average drivers.

Here in Canada, insurance companies will deny your claim if you're in an accident during the winter that could have been avoided if the car had snow tires. Do insurance companies down the in the States have a similar policy of denying claims if you have one after driving in snow with summer tires? If so, why would the insurance company deny a claim to those 'skilled/experienced' drivers? Shouldn't those 'skilled/experienced' drivers be rewarded instead of punished?

 

[Kain]

Here in Canada, insurance companies will deny your claim if you're in an accident during the winter that could have been avoided if the car had snow tires. Do insurance companies down the in the States have a similar policy of denying claims if you have one after driving in snow with summer tires?

I worked in the insurance industry for three years, and I know for a fact that upper execs of some insurance companies will issue a blanket policy denying all claims for a month to get back in the black. So in essence, they could deny your claim because you wore green underwear while eating sloppy joes on April 18th if they wanted.