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I love my Gislaveds! 200 1987

posted by  Aye Roll on  Sun Dec 26 18:04 CST 2004
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I had to drive someone to work tonight. Well, let me back up- we got over 4 inches of fine, cold, blowing snow today. The roads are a disaster. There's this ice being exposed wherever they've plowed. They haven't plowed much of anything yet. What is plowed is being refreshed by new blowing snow.

Connecticut, where it has snowed for each of the 15000 years since the last Ice Age, is completely unprepared for a winter storm despite days of forecasts.

(And you people from New York and New Jersey coming to the casinos, stay the hell home! You can't drive anyway, so don't come here to practice!)

Anyway, dropped off my brother in law at his midnight job. A 16-mile trip that normally takes 20 minutes. We gave it an hour. Fortunately traffic was light, and no incidents. I was actually going 40 mph on the interstate section. The road was NOT clear. It was plowed, but other than being RIGHT behind a plow truck, it was all loose or thin packed snow. Tough going and I could tell which cars were having trouble.

Didn't matter, pickup, SUV, family sedan. Some of each were having trouble- some of each passed me. I arrived safe and sound and did the trip in just about an hour, round trip. He's now one of the few who made it to work on time! Good for him, it's only his second day with a new department.

TIRES, TIRES, TIRES! They make all the difference. They made this trip possible. I can't stress it enough. If you're going to be in winter conditions, regardless of how old your car is, run some good snow tires on it.

I'm running Gislaved NordFrost 2's in the front. I ran these on the rear last year and stored them for summer. They are a GREAT tire and kept me out of trouble last year. This year they're on the front because I got a pair of Gislaved NordFrost 3 studded, directional tires for the back! Awesome traction, I can now go whereever I need to.

Good luck everyone driving in this mess!
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: '87 244DL/M47- 234K, '82 245T/M46-182K, '84 242DL/AW70-100K, '89 244DL/AW70- 212K and I miss my: 86 244DL 215K, 87 244DL 239K, 88 744GLE 233K, 88 244GL 147K, 91 244 183K






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