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Winter mode, when are you switching?
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11-06-2012, 08:24 AM | #67 |
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11-06-2012, 02:02 PM | #72 |
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Switched Friday. Not much snow yet in SW Ontario but the summers were already starting to give up in the cold temps and I didn't want to get caught out.
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11-06-2012, 03:56 PM | #73 |
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what else do you guys do for your winter mode other than switching tires? im gonna do a winter prep detail this weekend, and install a clear film on the front of the hood which i will take off in spring (too many chips in my paint from salt)
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11-07-2012, 01:03 AM | #74 |
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Your winters look great! Did you get an alignment done after putting your winters on? Or are you sitting on your stock springs and just simply swapped? I'll be swapping soon. M3 reps 17's and I too wish I had 18's instead.
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11-07-2012, 08:22 AM | #75 |
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i just got an alignment last weekend before putting the winters on because the rear of my car was kicking out on bumps on the highway (turns out it was because of cold hard balding rear tires and too stiff of a setting on rear suspension)... but i just threw the winters on after. debating if i should raise up the car a tiny bit for winter... if i do then i will have to get an alignment done again
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11-07-2012, 09:14 AM | #76 | |
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11-07-2012, 10:30 AM | #77 |
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Swapped rims yesterday.
Boneheads at the repair shop probably didn't use a torque wrench when replacing my rim. Then found my vehicle was missing one locking bolt and jack pad. Good news is that the ride is a little softer on winter shoes.
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11-07-2012, 06:59 PM | #81 |
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Switched today I miss the warm weather already
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11-07-2012, 07:03 PM | #82 |
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Man those winters have some grip.......ice+momentum surely not an issue compared with defying gravity!
Most of us Westerners swapped a week or two back. |
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11-08-2012, 08:39 AM | #84 |
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lol when i was viewing it on the Ipad the Picture was ok now i see what you mean
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11-08-2012, 12:42 PM | #85 |
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11-08-2012, 02:35 PM | #86 |
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Winter tire going on tommorow. My 189 wheels will become my winter tire (wrapped im sotto zero rft) and I'm gonna save up and buy avantgarde m310 wheels this winter !
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11-08-2012, 03:31 PM | #88 |
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because its only "warm" this weekend then you'll be seeing temps like earlier this week.. plus i think many of us had summer tires which were on their last season.. i know my rear ones were unsafe to drive on
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