If you dont have winter tires on your car stay home

[niXon]

Re: If you dont have winter tires on your car stay home

I'm doing just fine on my all seasons

[niXon]

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Also it isn't necessarily that people are to lazy to get winter tires, some people just can't afford them.

[vteclol]

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i dont have winter tires, and the tires i do have on my winter car are from pick and pull

[Stonewall]

Re: If you dont have winter tires on your car stay home

Also it isn't necessarily that people are to lazy to get winter tires, some people just can't afford them.

Then those people can't afford to drive in the winter. Driving is a privilege if you can't drive safe you don't deserve to drive at all.

[niXon]

Re: If you dont have winter tires on your car stay home

Then those people can't afford to drive in the winter. Driving is a privilege if you can't drive safe you don't deserve to drive at all.

I drive perfectly fine/safe on my all seasons. Sure a nice set of winter tires helps, but they will never replace driver skill.

[vteclol]

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My all seasons drive fine too but im still gonna get winter tires just to be safe.

[longsock]

Re: If you dont have winter tires on your car stay home

My all seasons drive fine too but im still gonna get winter tires just to be safe.

who's a good girl? who's a good gurlll
lol j/k

[Mitcheh]

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I've driven my a4 for 3 winters with basic all seasons and never even had a scare... I will never stray from Quattttttro

[bonfire]

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Saw a black 911 turbo S, with winters on, just ripping through mount royal,

[RONDAL]

Re: If you dont have winter tires on your car stay home

Saw a black 911 turbo S, with winters on, just ripping through mount royal,

my lawyer's got a white 997 turbo. its his winter car.
4wd yo!

[J-hop]

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My all seasons drive fine too but im still gonna get winter tires just to be safe.

no offense, but from experience I find people that say this have never had good winter tires on their car so they don't know what to compare with. Plain and simple there is no such thing as an all season tire, we had pirelli 4 season tires on my mom's volvo wagon, went to full blown winters and the difference was night and day.


Not being able to afford winter tires is NOT a legitimate excuse. When you buy a car, you buy in your pay grade so you can afford to maintain it and equip it properly for ALL conditions (not 70%). If you bought a car and can't afford to buy winter tires then there are only two possibilities 1) your financial position has changed or 2) you bought well out of your pay grade and should sell it for a cheaper vehicle ie: a kia or hyundai.

[bonfire]

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My vehicle cost me a dollar. My tires don't cost me $4. That is a pretty ridiculous statement. Should I downgrade to a free car? Would my tires be free? I have AWD, and it is pretty grippy. I have had blizzaks on all my cars, except my van last winter. It was fine, never once, did I come close to tagging anything. Had a few emergency braking situations, but because I don't tailgate the **** out of people, I was able to stop just fine.

Now I have winter tires, and they get installed tomorrow. But calm down.

What I think is more retarded are the twats out driving their bentley's and whatnot. If you can afford a bentley, you can afford to pick up a civic or a dub for winter.

I will bet you, you will still see tons of accidents, involving cars with winters. Just because you have them, doesn't mean it is summer time. You have to adjust your driving style, no matter what tires you are running.

The worst thing, are the cabbies, soccer moms, girlfriends driving their boyfriends 'rig truck'. Who just mat it when the light goes green. Polishing the **** out of the road. But the mentality that 'I am pressing the gas, and I am not moving, wtf? Must mean I should just pin it'

Also buses. Do they give these folk some sort of training? I avoid transit in the winter. I trust myself, and my vehicle a whole lot more, than some person, who often didn't grow up in these conditions, driving a 5 ton vehicle, with other peoples lives at stake.

Nope, I will take my own car, with seatbelts, and airbags.

[JLam]

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the best winter driving combination is winter tyres, awd, and most importantly a skilled and trained driver.

[bonfire]

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Yes, but you give a skilless driver, AWD, Winters, and you have something even more dangerous. Total false sense of security.

[J-hop]

Re: If you dont have winter tires on your car stay home

Yes, but you give a skilless driver, AWD, Winters, and you have something even more dangerous. Total false sense of security.

oh 100% agreed, but we aren't talking about driver skill we are talking about equipping your vehicle properly for the conditions.

My statement was in no way ridiculous, I dont think you understood it. I wasn't saying that you need to down grade because you bought a $1 car and a decent set of winter tires would be 600x that.

What I am saying is you can't use lack of money as an excuse. You (should) buy a car according to how much you make, so that you know you will have money for incidentals like wear and tear on the vehicle AND so that you can buy winter tires because you live in a place that freezes over EVERY year.


IE: you make 50 grand a year, should you go out and by a 30, 000 car, hell no, you buy a $10-15,000 car so you have money left over for maintenance, winter tires etc. Some people just can't think ahead and don't understand that a vehicle is a major investment and don't understand that they need to budget appropriately.

edit: and if buying a $100 car and equipping it with proper winter tires is to much for you budget to bare, do everyone a favor and buy a bus pass, then you benefit everyone twofold, you won't be a menace/nuisance to other drivers, and you'll help weigh those damn buses down so they can get traction..