Careful...There was an early thread on here--can't remember who started it--about someone screwing up their Mustang by doing doughnuts in the
Yeah I saw that, wet grass is very different than snow/ice for sure. Plus I think most forget to turn off the driver assist features to prevent the systems from monitoring. Sadly my window of opportunity is closing now that the city is getting streets plowed and I still can't get the car out of the garage due to the ice on the steep ramp into it. (Underground garage that was not designed the best for Minnesota.)Careful...There was an early thread on here--can't remember who started it--about someone screwing up their Mustang by doing doughnuts in thesnowwet grass... All the traction control etc went haywire if I remember correctly.
Correction, in wet grass, not snow.
https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/donuts-spinning-in-wet-grass-and-losing-traction-broke-my-car-‍.13384/
Don't do it -- I once was on summer tires in a Mazda RX-8 on I-280 in the hills when temps got unexpectedly around 40 degrees at night, and driving on summer tires in those temps leave the tires like rocks with much less grip. I hit some black ice, had the back go squirrelly on me, and had to change my undies when I got home.
Temps in the Bay Area at night dip into the low 40s in the winter typically -- with this current weather cycle this week -- and honestly this winter -- temps have gotten far colder. Lows this week are in the high 30s, and daytime highs were 46 where I live.
Let me take another stab at this. I am using a metaphor to show in the cold summer tires will act like bald tires do In the rain. They would have very little traction.
With this being the case I would switch out to an all season or all weather for cold rainy conditions. (If you do an all weather do either the cross climate or the Quatrac pro the others give up wet traction to enhance snow traction. Wouldn't think you would need snow traction in the bay area)
I live in Europe where we get get snow every year. I will admit I dont know how that works but I will concur that summer tires on the snow are horrible. They are fine when it's cold, but they are not fine when there is snow. It's much easier when you have AWD car, but still - the breaking distance is horrible (like 5-10 times longer) and you really should not do any rapid movements or you will lose traction immediately and start doing uncontrolled "donuts".
Maybe check out that new Vredestein Quatrac Pro EV I think it's made in a 255/50/19 and 255/45/20 that would work on the MME could be perfect for what you described
Same. Went out today and the car went through the snowy conditions better than a pick-up truck.Did very well through an insane commute from Hillsboro to the west hills of Portland, OR. Lots of people driving into each other and off the road, never felt out of control. This was after coming back to the car an hour after parking it. Stock tires with 16k miles, AWD.
Really? It also did it when I was trying to accelerate up a steep hill. It would stop if I wasn’t on the pedal, but I had to go up the hill.
Good to know. Because I was like what in the world is that. Sounded like it was coming from the battery.
