PP Mustang and winter

[sk8erord]

Oh trust me, I much prefer this car over my Subarus, just that one instance the AWD can be nice, lol...

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[Asharus]

yeah i bet, haven't had the pleasure of trying to do that yet. hopefully i'll never have to.. lol

besides, driving in the snow is best suited for my wife's econobox.

 

[Charles147]

Very helpful. Show me I'm wrong. Who would you rather drive around:

a) Person with a PP Mustang with winter/all seasons driving appropriately for the conditions (below freezing, which always bring a potential for ice, as well)

b) Person with a PP mustang with summer tires driving the same way as person 'a'

I guess I'm the only one who sees the irony in buying sticky track tires because they're better for those conditions, but not buying winter/all season tires even though they are better for those conditions? You can't plan for every eventuality, but if you know it's consistently below freezing? And yeah, of course you don't redline it, but what if you have to brake quickly? Swerve to dodge debris or whatever? Your tires don't matter because you're not accelerating? That's the only time it matters?

Obviously you temper this for where you live - I live where we get snow, and I'm driving in it a LOT, so I have snow tires. If I lived where it was consistently cold, but no snow, I'd probably do performance all seasons for winter. If I lived where it only rarely dipped down cold enough to be of concern, then I'd probably be fine on the summer tires year round with the cautious driving. There is no black and white and to treat the argument as such is worthless.

No one ever answered my initial question though - why wouldn't you get the right tires for the situation? If you buy summer tires for the best traction in summer... why not get the right shoes for winter? Seems like a no brainer to me. And I get that cost is a factor, but as with all things car-wise, you have to pay to play. It's worth it to me to protect my investment, and only the initial cost is more since I'm not wearing out my summer tires during winter...

C. Both...;) Because people w/All Seasons think their cars grip so they drive what they think is reasonable and it turns out they were driving like it's a clear sunny day outside and speeding. And the guy with PP tires that is driving like driver A is an idiot because ice is on the road. Like many youtube videos...Don't drive like that guy.

BTW, it's currently 36 degrees right now. I'm driving my Corolla.

...not many 15/16 Mustangs w/PP on the road in the winter. Crickey, many wont even drive if it's wet outside. The battery tender is on for many in winter. Most of the other Mustangs are equipped with A/S or Winters.

 

[Jonny50]

No one ever answered my initial question though - why wouldn't you get the right tires for the situation? If you buy summer tires for the best traction in summer... why not get the right shoes for winter? Seems like a no brainer to me. And I get that cost is a factor, but as with all things car-wise, you have to pay to play. It's worth it to me to protect my investment, and only the initial cost is more since I'm not wearing out my summer tires during winter...

Some people (me) didn't get summer tires for best traction in summer, but because they came with the car.

Gotta work with what you got sometimes....
Until such time arrives to change tires

As far as all the people terrified of driving on summer tires in winter, I didn't see any of you who live in Delaware. So you are safe from me.

Just watch out for the late model buicks with rear wheel drive, and one back tire is a spare tire donut, doing 85 in a 55.

 

[kz]

Just to give everybody an idea - DIB '15 GT PP that parks next to me at works still has summer P Zeros on. Nearby FR-S is on Direzzas II Star Spec (check out what tire it is). This morning it was 16 degrees F here.

All these warnings about tires cracking/failing/whatever are pretty funny... (Disclaimer - very very little snow here, had there been some, guy on Direzzas would be quite screwed ;-) )

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