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Bad winter to try to get by on summer tires...

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I will get some dedicated snows this next winter...but right now want to get some wheels and tires.for auto cross use.

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Yea, these things are not even meant to be driven in the cold...let alone the snow. It took me 40 minutes to get it out of my drive way and turned around on Thursday - which was the day that picture was taken.

The traction control will kick in even just letting the clutch out on my driveway.
Luckily I don't have to drive this when it snows...I can work from home whenever I need and I have a VW tiguan to get around in...next winter a set of 15's with some skinny snow tires will be on the car for sure. 185 60s or something like that should do the trick
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This morning a kid in an audi a4 with the the 2.0T was next to me at a light we each gave it a bit of welly from the lights and in first and second I struggled to keep the wheels from breaking loose...once I got to 3rd I FiST-ed him good, on a warm day it would have been a better showing....but cold and summer tires is slippery. Even in my wrx with my summer tires I would have to keep a light right foot on cold fall mornings...of course in Vermont from October to Late April I had that on Nokian Studded tires - that was a fun snow, ice, gravel set up.
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