Eclipse's in the winter

[nova1313]

I went to the local tire shop and told him I wanted winter tires just on the front the most agressive tread he could get me cheap.

They were snow tires he put them on my front tires for 180 I think. 20 of that was mount and unmount cost. Anyway they were no namers but had so much tread on them. I went from not being able to go in winter to being able to tear around town in snow.

Mind you they didn't save me when I hit black ice. But I was able to go around my town (it's in a valley so it's up and down hills all day for me) without any trouble.

Before the tires I would slide all over. I need to get some on my new gst. I bought a set of stock beater rims for winter tires. Then you don't have to pay mount and unmount each year. Pays themselves off quickly.

[sganc4life_4]

I wouldnt know, my cars been broken since before december. Ive drivin it a week since then.

[violent31601]

Wow just to make matters worse its like -30 outside and i went to go start my car and all it does is turn over...what a bad for my car

[1stGenRocks]

awd + 4 snow tires =
i dont slide or spin at all unless im trying. before on my almost bald proxies i could spin from a 40 mph roll in the rain when boost hit.

only sucky thing is im lowered so i get to pretend that im a snowplow. air to snow fmic

[xavier3jr]

lmao be that really keeps ur motor cooled down

[nova1313]

haha. I know the spinning at 40mph thing. I did that in the snow a few times on my old 2.4l spyder. I havn't taken the turbo spyder out in bad weather yet.

Umm... you want less tread in the snow, not more...

[nova1313]

I think it all depends on what type of snow you get in your area. I've found that with light fliffu snow, less tread is better. You kind of roll over top of it. We get really wet snow here most of the time. So You kinda slide through it, if you don't have tread. With less tred my car really wouldn't dig in to grip anything, and it wouldn't go. When it did go it pretty much slid. I usually go with bigger more aggressive tread, skinnier tire. The wide tires have to plow through the snow otherwise..