Bringing Out Summer Ride & Swapping Out Winter Tires...February Too Early???

[zipdoa]

Swapped from studded winters to chinese all-seasons yesterday. 500hp + awd + shitty rubber = :D

[revelations]

Originally posted by zipdoa
Swapped from studded winters to chinese all-seasons yesterday. 500hp + awd + shitty rubber = :D

You have a 500hp vehicle with cheap, Chinese knock-off tires? :confused:

[Maxx Mazda]

Nexen N3000 tire many best! Happy and performance!

[JohnnyHockey]

500 hp plus cheap all seasons = dorifto king, no?

[ExtraSlow]

I'm sick of the studs on my savage supercar, probably swap to the all-seasons soon. Wanted to take a look at the brakes anyway.

Wife can ride on her winters for a while yet, but maybe I'll call bob up and see when he's got time for the swap.

[relyt92]

Put the summers on tonight. I'll enjoy the snow next week now.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

I also threw the "summers" on tonight and have had my summer car out as well here and there.

Incoming blizzard!

[Sugarphreak]

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[killramos]

You guys are all nuts. Its not even that nice out.

The 14 day has freezing at night 10/14 days, and highs above 10 only 2/14 days, you know at 3pm.

My alley is still frozen solid, as is my back yard. I would never even get the car out of the garage let alone back in.


Date High [°C] Low [°C] POP
March 9 8 -2 20%
March 10 14 1 30%
March 11 10 1 20%
March 12 11 1 40%
March 13 10 -2 20%
March 14 7 -1 60%
March 15 5 -3 40%
March 16 6 -3 30%
March 17 7 -5 60%
March 18 8 -5 20%
March 19 8 -4 10%
March 20 8 -5 20%
March 21 7 -7 40%
March 22 10 2 10%


:dunno: :winter:

[Kijho]

Originally posted by killramos
You guys are all nuts. Its not even that nice out.

The 14 day has freezing at night 10/14 days, and highs above 10 only 2/14 days, you know at 3pm.

My alley is still frozen solid, as is my back yard. I would never even get the car out of the garage let alone back in.

:dunno: :winter:

My alleyway is usually frozen well into Spring, but with these warmer temps I bought a huge bag of salt and dumped a ton down and it was literally all melted by the time I got home that day! A few spots left and I just used a shovel and shoveled them into the part where the sun hits, now it's all gone! :rofl:

[rage2]

Originally posted by killramos
My alley is still frozen solid, as is my back yard. I would never even get the car out of the garage let alone back in.
Time to move out of the ghetto. There's definitely grip out there...

http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc475/rage2amg/B6C0AC53-DE8A-44D7-A527-C2946DAE6FD4_zps7clxjlux.jpg

[killramos]

Holy shit rage if that was my dash i would be so distracted I would crash the car before getting out of the neighborhood. looks like a playstation game, does it have pac man? :drool: :rofl:

and if I move out of the ghetto how am I supposed to be able to buy new Ems and Ehemgeees :bigpimp: :( You sound like my wife.

To many POS's on my block to get a paving request through too...

[jabjab]

I'm going to throw on my "summer rims" on in the next few days. They are on performance all season tires so it will be better to ride on those than eating my winter tires.

If we get a large snow fall for a few days I'll just take the bus.

[bjstare]

I decided to throw on my summer wheels on Friday. It's a bit early for sure, but I'll just borrow my mom's subaru if the snow comes since my parents aren't back for a couple months still.

[pheoxs]

Been on summers for 2 weeks, the one day it was a bit frosty was kinda iffy but otherwise glad I swapped over, double digit weather kills my studded tires pretty quick

[Cos]

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[hurrdurr]

This winter was my first winter with a RWD and winter tires, wasn't tested once, and wasted these tires with the mild temperatures and dry roads. Not to mention having to drive around with narrow tires that looked stupid lol

[Agent_Oorange]

I've been driving the BS since early Feb on and off haha

[shadowz]

Been driving the summer car as well, especially now the streets are clean

[EK 2.0]

Originally posted by shadowz

Been driving the summer car as well, especially now the streets are clean

#ShadowzMoney

[tehwegz]

Put insurance back on the summer which along with my Winter Rally Cross (WRX), also has winter tires.

I may as well put summers back on the summer car and since I have both cars insured for a month I can switch out cars as needed.

[revelations]

Originally posted by hurrdurr
This winter was my first winter with a RWD and winter tires, wasn't tested once, and wasted these tires with the mild temperatures and dry roads. Not to mention having to drive around with narrow tires that looked stupid lol

Where were you around xmas time? It was full on winter in Calgary :dunno:

[revelations]

Originally posted by rage2

Time to move out of the ghetto. There's definitely grip out there...


Almost 1G of braking deceleration? Thats pretty aggressive driving in the city!!

[ExtraSlow]

The tick-tick-tick of the studded tires is getting to me in the savage supercar, probably switch soon. Especially since:
http://i.imgur.com/5a4MSo1.jpg

[rage2]

Originally posted by revelations
Almost 1G of braking deceleration? Thats pretty aggressive driving in the city!!
I hit 1.1g in braking today because some idiot turned left without looking. So it wasn't THAT hard haha.

[hurrdurr]

Originally posted by revelations


Where were you around xmas time? It was full on winter in Calgary :dunno:

It was winter for a day or two and not ridiculous as they have been in the past.

From what I remember the worst day of winter was December 24th. By the 26th it was back to decent driving conditions.

I drank a lot over christmas though :dunno:

[Bladeh]

Originally posted by rage2

I hit 1.1g in braking today because some idiot turned left without looking. So it wasn't THAT hard haha.

I need a g-force gauge so I can be baller :)

[killramos]

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a103/killramos/1D633D59-2A29-4F5A-8B2B-FA94E141E1CA.jpg

Canmore yesterday morning. Not in the forecast. Horrible conditions on the highway.

Yea still too early. :nut:

[Sugarphreak]

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[Cos]

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[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Yeah the roads out to Lake Louise were brutal yesterday morning. Performance winters at about 50% tread on my dad's car and we had to take it real slow.

[Hallowed_point]

My procrastination paid off. Still losing traction at 6 AM on Deerfoot with enthusiastic acceleration. :burnout: Blizzac's are staying on for at least 3-4 more weeks.

[Maximoose]

Slapped on a new set of Nokian Entyre 2.0's all season. Did the lake Lake Louise drive on Sunday. Roads were brutal, but the tires performed great not regretting taking the winters off early.

[Cos]

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[killramos]

lol i was slipping and sliding on winters. Its very wet under the snow due to the warmth in the pavement. Very dangerous conditions because they are deceiving.

This thread is giving me a good chuckle. I'm sure its all gone by noon though.

[bjstare]

I took a different car in today, my summer setup on my car would have been not great today.

[Sugarphreak]

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[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Duratracs in snow, not much good for anything but drifting.

[EK 2.0]

Doing my parents seasonal swap today on their Rav hahaha....

And by that I mean putting on their all seasons....:nut:

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

I guess that alignment on my S2000 isn't happening today either...

[03ozwhip]

Ya that was an interesting ride in to Calgary from Strathmore. Made it though lol

[HiTempguy1]

Originally posted by Twin_Cam_Turbo
Duratracs in snow, not much good for anything but drifting.

Studded?

This is relevant to my interests, I was thinking of going with Duratracs on the dmax for year round tires in a stupid brodozer size of 315/70R17 but might reconsider if they aren't good in the snow.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Originally posted by HiTempguy1


Studded?

This is relevant to my interests, I was thinking of going with Duratracs on the dmax for year round tires in a stupid brodozer size of 315/70R17 but might reconsider if they aren't good in the snow.

Non studded. I have Hakka 8s for winter but took them off already. A 1 ton will have more weight behind it and do better with Duratracs in my opinion.

[Maximoose]

Originally posted by Maximoose
Slapped on a new set of Nokian Entyre 2.0's all season. Did the lake Lake Louise drive on Sunday. Roads were brutal, but the tires performed great not regretting taking the winters off early.


Well, didn't work out too well this morning

[zipdoa]

Originally posted by Maximoose



Well, didn't work out too well this morning

Did u have a fender bender m8?

[Minimalist]

Originally posted by revelations


The top 5% are unaffected by short term, economic cycles like this.

Shit I'm in the 6-7.4%, better prepare for the sword of doom.

[Brent.ff]

Originally posted by Twin_Cam_Turbo


Non studded. I have Hakka 8s for winter but took them off already. A 1 ton will have more weight behind it and do better with Duratracs in my opinion.

Duratracs are great in snow...they just suck on typical calgary snow=ice immediately. I know that real slippery day a couple weeks back was a hairy drive in with my taco on non-studded..

[Sugarphreak]

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[Team_Mclaren]

Well, pfinally made the call to putdriving insurance back on it. It's officially spring right???

[revelations]

The nighttime lows are now JUST averaging 0c so I would say anyone waiting could risk it now ..... around the Calgary area of course.

[revelations]

Originally posted by Minimalist


Shit I'm in the 6-7.4%, better prepare for the sword of doom.

You just might be only slightly more affected :rofl:

[Cos]

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[Unknown303]

Originally posted by HiTempguy1


Studded?

This is relevant to my interests, I was thinking of going with Duratracs on the dmax for year round tires in a stupid brodozer size of 315/70R17 but might reconsider if they aren't good in the snow.

My 3/4 duramax has Open Country MTs on it year round which somehow still worked well in the winter. Duratracs would be great year-round on that heavy truck.

[Dumbass17]

Swapped over to my summer setup on Friday, then went golfing Saturday. March is weird.

[killramos]

Broke down and decided life is too short...

Did a couple hours of cleaning and prep:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a103/killramos/image1.jpg

Going to mount them tomorrow morning to make most of the fantastic weather!

[shakalaka]

Mine have been powder coated. Making a trip down this weekend and getting them installed at Urban Horton.

[Hallowed_point]

Doing it tomorrow morning :burnout: Can't wait to hit dem corners..

[Canmorite]

Originally posted by killramos
Broke down and decided life is too short...

Did a couple hours of cleaning and prep:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a103/killramos/image1.jpg

Going to mount them tomorrow morning to make most of the fantastic weather!

Holy clean. :thumbsup:

Getting mine done Saturday morning. Can't wait!

[killramos]

Originally posted by Canmorite


Holy clean. :thumbsup:

Getting mine done Saturday morning. Can't wait!

Yea I'm pretty sure this is cleaner than they were even on delivery lol. Fucking BMW brake dust. Feels good to get it done though they really look their best this way. Good coat of wax on them as well (as best as I can do with all the grooves) so hopefully they will stay that way for a few weeks lol.

[relyt92]

Originally posted by killramos


Yea I'm pretty sure this is cleaner than they were even on delivery lol. Fucking BMW brake dust. Feels good to get it done though they really look their best this way. Good coat of wax on them as well (as best as I can do with all the grooves) so hopefully they will stay that way for a few weeks lol. Have you looked at sealing them?

[heavyD]

I'm Opti-Coating my wheels this weekend. Brake dust just hoses off after.

[EK 2.0]

Originally posted by heavyD
I'm Opti-Coating my wheels this weekend. Brake dust just hoses off after.

Hoses off you say??...

Would be nice for my Taxi Yellow CE's....

[killramos]

Originally posted by relyt92
Have you looked at sealing them?

No actually. I only do the clean and wax once a year though?

[lilmira]

See ya later winter tires, you've been good.

[Hallowed_point]

Done today..loving my Nittos around the corners.

[Hallowed_point]

Originally posted by killramos
Broke down and decided life is too short...

Did a couple hours of cleaning and prep:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a103/killramos/image1.jpg

Going to mount them tomorrow morning to make most of the fantastic weather! wow you did a fantastic job on those.

[Bladeh]

Got mine on last week after having powder coating at Calgary Powder Inc.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1700/25637417234_abbddf206f_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/F4usX5)

[Sugarphreak]

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