Caught with my pants down!

[Rainman]

So I have been driving around with the winters sitting in the trunk and back seat of the car for a couple of weeks now. The weather has been too cold for me to put them on myself and I haven't had a chance to get into the garage to get them on. I kept praying that it wouldn't snow before I got a chance to get them on.

Well, looks like I wasn't so lucky...LOL! Bush brought the snow with him when he visited Ottawa and BAM!!!! 15 cm of snow.....arggghhh! The stock tires don't drive so well in the deep snow do they....LOL! It was f___in' ridiculous trying to drive to work this morning. Avg speed = 20 kmh. Even ol' grannies with their snow tires were giving me the finger as they zoomed on past. At the lights, couldn't even roll unless I started in 3rd. That is without giving the car gas even. Just gently easing out the clutch would spin the tires in 1st or 2nd. Damn, I had trouble getting into my parking lot at home and there is only a 5 degree grade on the friggin' driveway.

First call when I got home was the garage....can you fit me in TODAY! I hope that this is the last winter I will have to drive the MSP. Next year she goes into storage and I get a beater for the wife and kids, while I take the MS6.

God...only 6 more months of snow. I love Ottawa....not!

R

[jersey_emt]

Why do you need a garage to change your wheels? Use the spare tire jack and do it in your driveway.

[Swerny]

Why do you need a garage to change your wheels? Use the spare tire jack and do it in your driveway.
My thoughts exactly, unless the tires aren't on rims.

[NRRfrogmanP5]

yeah even i changed my own winter tires and im a lazy son of a biotch!

[REMillers]

hehe off the subject but I love the response bush gave when visiting
"And thank you to those that waved with all 5 of your fingers, instead of 1" :)

[macklum]

Its no fun changing over tires in heavy wet snow . Besides it is also unsafe the jack could slip out ,leavingyou with a fine mess . Why spend 1.5hrs changing them yourself when a garage can do it in 30 mins.

[Rainman]

I'm a cold weather p---y. I don't mind skiing or playing hockey out in the cold, but I hate having to work on my car in the cold. Your fingers get all cramped up and shit....not pretty. You keep dropping everything you pick up...not fun. Of course, you can wear gloves, but then you have the manual dexterity of someone who only has 1 finger instead of 5 (couldn't resist that one...LOL). I'll consider it a lesson for my procrastination. I should have just put them on a few weeks ago when the weather was warm enough that I could do it myself.

R

[Swerny]

Go find an underground garage at a shopping mall or something and do them there if it's that crappy out.

[goku4658]

jersey, you put your snows on yet?

[txrxs]

winter 2 with the potenzas for me...

[cbcbd]

I've changed my wheels out in 20 minutes with only the crappy jack that comes with the car. Not much dexterity is needed to change out wheels. If I really needed to I'd just do it myself anywhere. I've rotated my tires in a McDs parking lot. But yeah, doing it in the cold just sucks that much more.

[Mach 3.5 Turbo]

Why spend 1.5hrs changing them yourself when a garage can do it in 30 mins.
So you don't die on the way to the garage. I put my snows on last week and we haven't had any snow yet. It's good to get it done early.

[jersey_emt]

jersey, you put your snows on yet?

Going on this weekend...cold weather is making the potenzas suck.

[goku4658]

hmm i guess i'll put mine on too...

[Bhamsan]

I love California.

[blynzoo]

I love California.Get out of here, hippie!!!!!! (hippy)

[ping]

Mine are on and I'm always amazed at how well the car drives on 16's with 205/55's - arguably it has much more of a "quality" drive - quieter, tracks better (no tramlining), great steering feel... but not the precision (or noise) that the stock Potenzas give. I'm equally amazed when I put the 17's back on in the spring and get the grip and precision back...

No reason not to drive an MSP in winter - the limited slip combined with snows and rather decent ground clearance (for a performance car) makes this thing a snow monkey. Love it.

[Demonic-Speed]

My Bizacks's (sp?) just showed up yesterday, I will be putting them on this weekend....

IMO it is more of a pain in the ass to load a set of tires in the damn car and risk scratching interior, then to just change them...But then again, I have a 3 car garage:) But no power tools....So that does suck...

[CommieSpeed]

winter 2 with the potenzas for me...How did you not total it yet?!?! Does the snow get bad out there? I find that even in an inch these tires are worthless. After getting caught out in snow twice, I shall never again. Although I have been procrastinating to put on the snows as well, and I'm sure will soon pay the price!!!

[jrodhotrod]

I love California.
(rofl)

Oh man... that's cold.

But I gotta add... what are winter tires? :p

[YuYuRena]

MS6 with AWD isn't going to help if u still got the same tire they have on the MSP or a different summer performance tires.

[Rainman]

True enough. I plan on getting some winters for it. However, it WILL be much more fun to drive in the winter than the MSP once it is suitably equipped with winters.

R

MS6 with AWD isn't going to help if u still got the same tire they have on the MSP or a different summer performance tires.