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Snow traction: Pirelli P4000 bad, Gislaved Nordfrost good 200 1987

posted by  Bean on  Sun Dec 7 16:16 CST 2003
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Just put the snow tires on my wife's '94 945T on Thursday...Gislaved Nordfrost on all four corners.

She also works the graveyard shift, Fridays and Saturdays only, at one of the local casinos. Driving time door to parking lot is about 45 minutes from our home in central Rhode Island. Anyhow she got to work on Friday with no issues only to find that the two employees that work under her had both called out...and they only live 10 minutes away!!! Not sure if it's a testament to my wife's determination/dedication or to the quality of the Gislaved's?! If it weren't for those tires I don't think I'd let her out of the house with snow on the ground.

My GT, on the other hand, had lots of trouble with the "summer" tires. Not sure if they are M+S rated. The roads were so slippery soon after the storm started that I couldn't make it up a slight incline to get out of the parking lot at work. Thankfully I live close to where I work (sorry honey!) so I was able to walk home. Good thing too since the road that I take home has a decent hill that I have to go down, no less than 6 cars were spun out/on the side of the road/or kissing another vehicle... Sad to say but one of them was an XC90 (it was quite slippery, not really icey though).

It's gonna be a long winter!
Bean
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'80 242GT 91k, '94 945T 110k






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