A4 Winter Driving Question

[Kneale Brownson]

I'm not familiar with your specific tire, but yesterday I drove my 
200q20v  on its summer tires.  We've had several inches of wet snow and it 
was packed to near ice.  I went sideways once and did a 360 before I could 
get back home and put on my winter tires.  I couldn't believe how poorly 
the specifically summer tires that worked so nicely all summer on that car 
handled the slick.  I've been driving quattros since 1990 (both 4K and 5K) 
but I always ran Cooper Cobras on them year around.  I'll never drive 
strictly summer tires in any sort of winter circumstance again.


At 03:40 PM 11/22/2000 -0500, V6Veloce at aol.com wrote:

>I have a 2001 A4 1.8tQ with the sport tire/suspension package.  I have snow
>tires on order, but they have not yet arrived.  Over the next couple of days
>I need to drive to northwestern Massachusetts, where I may encounter some
>flurries, and maybe some light accumulation.  Does anyone think I'm asking
>for big trouble attempting this with the 16" Dunlop SP8000s that come with
>the sport package (I do not have the ESP option)?
>
>I have the non-OEM version of the same tire on my Alfa, and was once
>immobilized in very light snow, but without the benefits of Quattro.
>
>If anyone has had relevant experience, your thoughts would be much
>appreciated!
>
>Tarik Shapli
>'01 A4 1.8tQ "Lola"
>'84 Alfa GTV/6 3.0 "Christina"
>