[A4] Intro and ABS brakes question

Rocky Mullin caliban at sharon.net
Tue Feb 1 00:04:13 EST 2005


	also HP tires get SUPER hard in the cold snow, which makes
traction suck even more.  snow tires' rubber stays soft when cold
(and too soft, that squishy feeling, in the hot)

At 8:30 PM -0500 1/31/05, Richard Hurt wrote:
>Again, not to start a tire thread, but snow tires have lots of little
>sipes (spaces) that trap snow and since snow sticks to snow you have a
>lot of traction.  High performance tires have large rigid, blocks that
>don't move around a lot in aggressive driving.  :)
>
>More Info: 
>http://www.advanceautoparts.com/english/youcan/html/ccr/ccr20020101wt.html
>
>Later...
>   Richard
>
>
>On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:49:49 EST, Brizax at aol.com <Brizax at aol.com> wrote:
>>  the abs is spose to keep the wheels from locking up, its prolly the tires
>>  that suck, you can unplug the abs unit under the hood but it will 
>>prolly stop
>>  twice as bad if its your tires, whats the tread look like on the 
>>tires? ideal
>>  snow tires have large wide tread to throw the snow  out
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