Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Difficult to get any work done. Seems everyone I need to contact is on vacation.

[RKDinOKC]

Maybe I can sell both of the Cayennes and get this?



NOT

[Porsche-poor]

morning all.

[Jim Richards]

Hola from soggy Southern California. It's been raining steady for the past 15 hours and will continue to do so for who knows how many more hours. No complaints from me...the last of the plants were installed yesterday. They're all getting a free drink courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks Ma!

[flipper35]

Mornin'.

According to our daughter today is our golden anniversary. 16 years!

Richard, I agree NOT. White isn't a good color on those.

[GH85Carrera]

I dug around online long enough to find Michelin's official recommendations for my MICHELIN PILOT SPORT PS2 tires and they say to use caution below 40 and don't use them or even move the car if it is below 20. The tires can crack if flexed when it is below 20 degrees. This is the first set of summer performance tires I have ever had. Back in the stone ages when 15 inch performance tires were available they were safe to use at low temps but sucked big time for traction. The mud and snow rated tires I used to have to run were fine at any temperature I was likely to encounter. I have driven it in zero and minus one before but only once. It was the only time I could keep the heater on max for more than a few minutes. In my 914 days it was my only car and was out in some cold weather. I can remember the plastic heater vents getting soft and pliable because of the heat coming from the heat exchangers. Especially if I drove around with the roof off and the heaters on max.

[RKDinOKC]

Had some nearly new Bridgestone Potenzas on my 944 TurboS. Carefully drove to work one morning when it was 10°F out. Went around a corner after stopping at a light and it spun out and hit the curb. It wasn't a bit wet either. Was happy the tires had rim protectors.

[Oh Haha]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Naturally, I do.

My Dad always talked about them but I've obviously only seen rerun movies.


Gonna head over to the hometown tomorrow for the Christmas thing. It's supposed to snow tonight and all day but we will be on main roads and I've driven in nasty conditions plenty of times. Probably going to take the Suquinox.

[flipper35]

We had Eagle LS tires on Steve. They had little grip below 50* or if it was damp and if there was any snow on the ground they were about as grippy as skis.

The Eagle tires on the Cobra were great in anything, but they were a full on race tire. Of course on a gravel road it sounded like you were in a hail storm because the rubber was so soft the gravel would stick to them. They also tramlined terribly if there were grooves in the road.

If there is much snow we just take the truck with Blizzaks on it. Supposed to get 1-10 inches this weekend. I love weather people.

[Porsche-poor]

typical Friday here even working from Seattle on the CA project. They all left for the airport and left me nothing to do.

[pete3799]

Hey Glen....come on back. Don't think there will be much bicycle traffic on the mountain today.
Mount Washington wind chill hits 87 below zero - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-

[flipper35]

I don't think the new car is in for them yet. He missed a great opportunity there!

[Porsche-poor]

at 87 below things fall off right?

[pete3799]

I'll bet he wouldn't want to drive the new one up there either Brent.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

at 87 below things fall off right?

That isn't the bad part. What is bad is you don't feel it fall off so you have no idea where you lost it.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, 87 below is about 150 degrees colder than I like. When I drove the 911 in zero degree weather I drove for two hours and never got it above 140 degrees oil temp.

[Oh Haha]

I got caught in a freak April snow storm coming back from a Pelican's place about 80 miles away. I had the Sumitomos on the 911 at the time. They absolutely sucked in anything less than 40 degrees.

That day it started out dry and almost 50. By the time I left it had dropped to about 35 and started to snow. I had no choice but to drive home in it.

I really should buy new tires for the truck. I had Kumho Ecsta on my Mazda and they would go through anything AND had really good dry traction.

[Jim Richards]

I still have Conti DWSs on the 964. They're on the original 16" wheels. When it's time to replace the tires, I've got a set off of 17s ready to go on. I don't think I need the snow capability for my tires.

[Porsche-poor]

I don't need snow tires for the 911 either. It stays in the garage.....

[RKDinOKC]

When I had my 81 GMC Jimmy it came with some 34" tall Uniroyal Radials. They were called Radial 23° ATVs. The whole time I owned it I wanted to replace them with some BF Goodriches or super swmpers but the darn things just wouldn't wear and went thru EVERYTHING! They were amazing, mud, snow, ice, sand, dry, wet, it just didn't matter. The only negative was when driving down the highway and 70-80 mph there were couple of places with bumps that it would catch air on. Just a bit un-nerving.

Put a proper 4 inch suspension lift on it. When I got it the previous owner had lifted it just using big shocks to fit the big tires under it and the angle on the rear drive shaft ate the u-joints. When I tried to drive it using only the front wheels by throwing the drive shaft in the back and putting a spray can cap on the tranny, found the front hubs were full of mud instead of grease and the springs that locked out the hubs were rusted away. So it was off to the 4x4 shop.

When I went to pick up the truck from getting the lift kit put on, new rear drive shaft, locking hubs, springs, shocks etc. replaced it was super super clean. When I asked about it the guys at the shop said in order to check out the 4x4 they took it through the racing mud pit that had been set up for racing at the fair grounds and cleaned it up for me. Told me they were really impressed that it made it completely through the pit and that the Suburban they raced and most of the other trucks that raced wouldn't even make it all the way thru that mud pit like my Jimmy. Told me I should consider entering it in the mud races.

On time was cruising around in it when we had a huge snow storm. Came up on the one place where the snow had drifted over the road and was as deep as the truck was tall. The drift was about a block long. There were 3 other 4x4s that were attempting to go thru it when we came up on it. They were only getting all four wheels into the drift then getting stuck and pulling each other out. When we came up on it we just blazed thru it and kept on going saying those other 4x4's were just 4x4 wannabes.

As we were going thru the deep snow I noticed the truck would slow way down and start to sink. Then as the snow packed up under the tires it would get more bite and lurch fowards, then start slowing and sinking again and repeat. Did the same thing going thru everything I tried. It must have been the size of the tires and weight of the truck and traction of the tires was just right that the tires would get bite and move forwards just before it sank deep enough to get stuck.

My friends an I spent the week of all the now going around pulling people out of ditches. Well, unless they didn't offer to pay or say thank you. Then we pushed em back into the ditch and went on. There was only two guys that refused to thank us.

There was one guy in a Trans Am that we pushed a block in the deep snow back to his apartments. He cussed like crazy but not at us. We had a big inner tube hanging on the front bumper to keep from tearing cars up that we pushed, but he kept holding his brakes on and tearing up the back of his car while we were pushing him. Kept stopping and telling him to leave the brake alone and as soon as we would start moving, the brake lights lit up and bam, it would crush the inner tube and tear up the back of his car.

Just had all season tires on the Rover and it did fine. Same with the CayenneS. Going to have to replace the tires I was using on the S as I noticed the other day the tread is almost gone after 3 years. Have those wheels and tires on the Turbo now. Had high performance summer Pirellis on the BMW SUV (they were the only tires that size), but it got around on the snow and ice we have just fine.