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After watching Highway Thru Hell...WTF?!
amace04:
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I'm Canadian and I never call it a sem-ee. It's called a half-chub
Arseen:
I'll change my view a bit after driving our work car.
I think there is more to blame with modern cars with tracktion control than shit tires.
I was driving in a roundabout with said work car with very good studded tires and tracktion was so shit as the slid control kept coming on and THUS car was loosing it's grip.
I was driving 20km/h side ways!!! In clear weather with just perfect amount of ice for studs to grip, yet no matter how carefully I tried I was going side ways. 4 wheel drive coming on as well.
With my own car (Volvo 940, 1994 model) I can drive same roundabout in worse weather 50km/h without any slipping.
My car has no tracktion control nor ABS breaks, just normal rear wheel drive.
wiggy:
There are no laws regarding when snow must be cleared from public roadways here in the US. At least not in Ohio. They clear em when they clear em. And that often means waiting until it stops snowing, depending on the municipality. I’ve never needed studded tires. My wife and I both run snow tires during winter months though.
TDIRunner:
We don't get quite enough snow here to justify snow tires, although I would much prefer to have them. I would prefer rear wheel drive with snow tires over all wheel drive with all season tires. But regardless, with the minimal snow we get here, my 4x4 pickup gets me where I need to go, and my wife doesn't drive in snow ever, so I don't have to worry much about her van.
When I say "minimal snow," I mean that we rarely have it more than a week or two out of the year. When we get snow, we can sometimes get over 12 inches (real inches, not my fancy fish ruler inches. ;) )
marioxb:
--- Quote from: wiggy on February 28, 2018, 08:13:26 PM ---There are no laws regarding when snow must be cleared from public roadways here in the US. At least not in Ohio. They clear em when they clear em. And that often means waiting until it stops snowing, depending on the municipality. I’ve never needed studded tires. My wife and I both run snow tires during winter months though.
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Definitely don't miss those days. My wife and I moved from Ohio to South Carolina for exactly that reason. We never had snow tires, or even 4 wheel drive. Always all season tires. I've lived in Ohio almost all my life, so I was used to it, but my wife is from Orlando and got tired of the snow. Funny thing is, it actually snowed about 2 inches for one day this January in Hilton Head Island, SC. People say it hasn't snowed here since 1989, I guess my wife and I brought it with us. Since it snows so infrequently here, they closed all the schools, all govt places, most stores, bridges, all for 2 inches of snow. They didn't even attempt to clean the roads of the slight ice. Just waited until it melted. Most gone by next day, all gone within a week.