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Originally Posted by cbrightbill  I went with the General tires and am really surprised with the tires and the car's performance in the recent storm we had.
I wanted to see how the car would slide so i could know what it feels like. So i tried to get it out of whack in a very safe location. Other than the car wanted to understeer i could not get it to oversteer with those tires on it.
I never knew how nice a car this thing could be in the winter. I honestly thought it would unsafe no matter what. In an icy corner it just pulls through with no issues.
Now if i can get the darn heater to work... |
I've always thought the same thing with the Blizzaks I've owned (WS-50 and now WS-60). There's enough traction that I need to
force it to lose control.
Late last winter we had a
very icy morning; vehicles in the ditch all over. There was a big, new 4x4 Toyota pickup in front of me on the nearly empty freeway. Out of nowhere, the truck just "snapped" into a spin and went into the ditch. We were both doing a very steady speed and the truck neither was changing lanes, accelerating or stopping. All-seasons are just not capable of that serious ice driving. I definitely could feel how slippery it was out, but there was no-way my ti was nearly that unstable.