Nokian WRG2 Vs Michellin Primacy MXV4 Tires ?

On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:22:56 +0000, chuckcar wrote:

> Hachiroku > wrote in
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>> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:06:24 +0000, chuckcar wrote:
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>> I spent the second half of the week helping to set up a server farm for
>> Microsoft's new Boston campus. I took that car out the first day because
>> the weather was bad and I can't drive the Scion in weather like that!
>>
>> It was raining SO hard there were a few harrowing moments...Can you say
>> "Hydroplane"? Whew!
>>
>> Yup. Going to the tire store this week for sure...
>>
>>
> You don't *have* another set of tires? Bad, very bad. Get there soonest
> and safest. BTW up here we have a province that just passed a law that you
> *have* to put on *real* winter tires in winter. They also have a law that
> you can't turn left on a red light though. (Quebec).

I had a set from before, $29 each brand new. They weren't TOO bad, but I
changed them after 8,000 miles.

I got more tires around here than Carter's got little pills. The winter
set is only 20 years old...


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On 09/30/2010 12:06 AM, chuckcar wrote:
> Nate > wrote in
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>> On 09/29/2010 11:00 AM, sctvguy1 wrote:
>>> chuckcar wrote:
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>>>> > wrote in
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>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Live in New England.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lots of snow.
>>>>> Lots of ice.
>>>>>
>>>>> Want to get a new set of 4 all-weather tires.
>>>>>
>>>> Don't. Get *proper* snow tires. Below freezing temperatures make
>>>> all-season tires useless.
>>> Agree, good old-fashioned snow tires, or studded snow tires for ice
>>> beat others hands down. In OK, when I was a kid, my grandfather
>>> always used the studded snow tires. OK is well known for ice storms
>>> and the dreaded black ice. Either that or go even more retro and use
>>> chains.
>>>
>>
>> No, get new-fashioned *WINTER* tires. MXV4 means all-season to me,
>> not sure about the Nokians. but on my 944 I was switching off between
>> Yokohama AVS in the summer and Dunlop Winter Sport in the winter, no
>> compromises in any season. Got some extra wheels used 'n' cheap so I
>> could swap them myself. That car was a beast in snow, believe it or
>> not. But if you got caught in snow with the Yokos on... I did that
>> *once.* Exactly once.
>>
> I imagine the ride height didn't help much either.
>

Meh, we only get one big snow every couple years here, and last year's,
unless you had an old Dodge Power Wagon or something you still weren't
getting out (close to 3' of snow on the ground, what a mess - VA isn't
prepared for that kind of snow!) in normal situations a 944 is more than
adequate. Drove several winters with a lowered VW Scirocco, in several
states including Michigan (granted, that car never left the metro
Detroit/Ann Arbor area, but still.) I find that I actually prefer a
balanced RWD car to FWD in snow but obviously AWD is the best of both
worlds.

nate


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I think Magnusson Moss has to do in particular with
warranty issues (of which this could specifically apply)
while Sherman and Clayton address "tying" of the
purchase of one product to another.

I questioned the practice of forcing a person to buy
rental car insurance, in practice, to renting the car that
was common a couple of decades.. They didnt exactly
force you to buy the insurance BUT they would tell you
that if you brought the car backed with a scratch, a
nick in the mirror, or whatever they had the right to put
the entire cost of the car on your credit card. I guess
"the law" finally got close enough that this practice has
disappeared.