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Originally Posted by gajagfan
I think the traction fears are significantly blown out of proportion. Cold tires on cold roads suck. Use your head and you will be fine.
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Last winter. Had wheels on order (MRR 228s), but they were stuck on a container ship off the port of California for a few months due to labor/union issues. Avoided driving the 1LE, but occassionally had to do it.
Left my house one morning, right around 35 degrees outside. I have traveled about 100 yards from my home, I'm in third gear at just over 1K RPM, and the light in front of me turns yellow. I go to about a third of available throttle travel (again, I'm barely off idle right now), and the rear tires just light right up and kick out violently to the right.
I'm not usually the nay-sayer when it comes to tires. I think the G2s are fantastic in the wet, while others feel they are terrible. Yes, they hydro-plane easily, but if you're not in standing water, they have excellent wet-weather traction. And I'm generally someone who enjoys driving in snow with just about any vehicle. But seriously, the G2s are just atrocious when the temps drop. You can light them up in 4th gear at 1500 RPM if they haven't warmed up yet. It's just silly dangerous.
I mounted my MRR-228s with BFGoodrich g-Force Comp-2 all-seasons this weekend as the cold weather is upon us. MUCH, MUCH safer this morning (and glad I did it this weekend, it was 29 degrees when I left my house this morning).