When do the winters go on?

[J-hop]

Re: When do the winters go on?

I did this too, as I could not afford anything else.

I just put on a set of contiprocontacts. $550 installed. Came of a dude's A3, he drove from dealership to costco on them.

funny thing is driving on winters during the summer will cost you more in the end.... the soft rubber gets torn to ish on dry pavement.


I don't need to drive every day in the winter so I usually wait till first day of snow then do the winters, makes for a cold session in the driveway but saves tread wear on the winters, and my performance all seasons fair half decent in the snow anyways.

[Lo)2enz0]

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waiting till i see frost on the ground, or snow is in the forcast. till than the rs6 reps stay on cause the steelies are going to look soooo bad

[vee_dubbin]

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Will be putting mine on in a couple of weeks. My summer tires are bald as hell and don't want the risk of a) blowing a tire, and b) getting caught in a flash snow storm with no tread whatsoever. I just run the stock 15' alloys with winter rubber. Last year I painted them satin black....this year will be completey different. Preppin them this weekend for paint.

I did what I said I was going to do. Kind of have mixed feelings about them....oh well...they are just winters.
Will post a pic of them on the car next weekend if anyone is interested to see what they look like on a black MKIII GTI

By projectvr6 at 2010-10-11

[852VR6]

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wow didnt expect that when you said something completely different mike....haha...should be interesting

[Deuce]

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Either the November 13th or November 20th weekend for me... depending on how the weather is holding up and how the forecast looks at the time. Had the Eagle F1 summers on last year and got caught in that "freak" (aka. Normal for Calgary) October'ish snow storm. Had no trouble going up the incline from 19th Avenue SW from 17A St. to Richmond Rd since 17th Avenue westbound from 14th St. was a parking lot.

The look of the expression on the guy I passed going up the hill whilst he was sliding backwards and scraping the curb all the way back down was definitely VW 4-Motion commercial material.

Suffice it to say... days like the above have made me an AWD man for life. Oh yeah... and winter tires are pretty darned good too!

Cheers...

[vee_dubbin]

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wow didnt expect that when you said something completely different mike....haha...should be interesting

Will be for sure. How ya been? you still rockin the MKIV Jetta?

[morris400]

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if i had winters i would but i done so another winter on my summers i guess....early braking

[VanDamage]

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I put my winters on last week because my summer tires were absolutely trashed.

[vee_dubbin]

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teaser....


By projectvr6 at 2010-10-14

[Deuce]

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Nice. You got slimed!

[VwSweetHeart]

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All I can say is Boo for snow right now!! Im still on summer tires and rims

[Lo)2enz0]

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Its suppost to clear up by this afternoon... according to theweathernetwork its not suppost to snow again for a while

[stefan]

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last year i rolled out of bed to that early snow fall and put on my winters before I went to work. I'll probably throw them on next weekend this year.

[R_Ethug]

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yay snow today.. meh just wet.. hopefully it doesnt' cool off too much still rolling in the S with summers ahoy!

[jasonwermy]

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I put mine on a couple of weeks ago when it was 20 degrees outside. I thought someone was playing tricks on me saying "it's snowing, it's snowing". Well oh crap it is snow lol