[s-cars] 1993 Audi S4 for sale
Taka Mizutani
t44tqtro at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 19:23:00 EDT 2007
Steve-
Do tell more about the RE050s- they were top of the list of tires to get for
the V70R- stupid valet put a nice cut in one of my sidewalls, will need to
replace the tire sooner rather than later and the price is right due to the
Tire Rack special going on.
Taka
On 8/31/07, Steve Marinello <smarinello at entouch.net> wrote:
>
> A '69 Triumph GT6+ shod with the original Dunlop SP4's (made in the UK
> or Germany, not the Far East) took me to/from Palo Alto/Lake Tahoe for
> numerous ski trips, including a couple in blizzard conditions. Only one
> of those ended up with the cable chains being used after the only time
> that traction broke, when unintended. Part of the ability to do that is
> wrapped up in the throttle response; in the linkage and/or programming.
> Therein lies the older and not-so-old Audi's and others that could be
> driven successfully in the snow. Try that with the hair-trigger
> throttle on the GTI, especially with these RE050A's that can't even
> handle water and cold weather. The SP4's, by the way, were not
> considered all-season.
>
> Of course, later versions of the tire, made in Japan, that made it on
> cars like the '84 Celica Liftback my wife had when I met her in Alabama
> got greasy, squirrelly at the slightest hint of rain. Throw in some
> nice red clay, coming over a hill on a serpentine downhill country
> two-lane and you end up with three endo's, taking out a mailbox and
> ending up upside down, but she walked away from it. The only glass not
> broken was the drivers' window. And I'd just said the previous weekend,
> after driving the car in the rain, that I was going to get her a new set
> of tires because they sucked so bad. When the next week, her sister
> totaled a Camry in wet conditions after I noted that she needed new
> tires, I didn't hesitate when I saw the tires on her mom's Cressida
> while we were checking up on their house when they were out of town.
> Got a good, appropriate set of Bridgestone's in from Tire Rack and had
> them mounted when she got back. The first day back she called and asked
> what I'd done to her car?! I told her, "just new tires". She was sure
> I'd modified the engine or something, but it had only been a very well
> executed Italian tune-up on a trip to northern Alabama to visit a
> factory store outlet...and two oil changes, before and after. That
> Toyota six wasn't really bad once the carbon got blown off. And the
> handling with the tires was drastically improved.
>
> Where'd all that come from??? ..hell, I've been home sick for three
> days. Boredom and memories...
>
>
>
> Lee Levitt wrote:
> > Well, cars with IRS SUCK in the snow. I learned to drive in RWD
> > Volvos in upstate NY, where a nightly 6" of snow wouldn't even be
> > mentioned by the local weathergirl. She'd have to see 8" or more
> > before she even peeped, but that's another story.
> >
> > Anyway, I love driving RWD cars in the snow. I also love driving
> > FWD cars in the snow...my second car was a VW Rabbit and the
> > handbrake, working on the rear wheels, did more steering in snow
> > than the steering wheel. :)
> >
> > But if I have to get someplace, give me quattro.
> >
> > Oh, and by the way, the snow performance of my wife's '96 A6 got
> > me out of a '99 Range Rover, which was pitiful in
> > comparison....and into my first Audi, an S6 avant.
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri Aug 31 09:49:58 PDT 2007, Taka Mizutani
> > <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> You guys crack me up- here I am driving a freaking Miata in the
> >> snow, with
> >> all of 4" of ground clearance, short wheelbase, RWD, lightweight-
> >> everything
> >> bad for driving in snow, and I don't have issues driving in snow.
> >> The only
> >> time I got sideways was while turning and a little too
> >> enthusiastic of a
> >> throttle application.
> >>
> >> You're spoiled driving a quattro- you can't be hamfisted driving
> >> a RWD car
> >> in low traction conditions. If you're smooth with steering and
> >> throttle and
> >> brake inputs, it's not that much of a big deal.
> >>
> >> Spinning in the rain while going straight, Dave? WTF? :-)
> >>
> >> Not for nothing, you guys would probably spin my STi in the snow.
> >> At least
> >> Paul would claim he did it on purpose. :-P
> >>
> >> Taka
> >>
> >>
> >>
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