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Originally Posted by churchx
0.7? Forget about it on snow/ice, even with proper tires.
Eg. here, on snow, "snow tires pull 0.30 lateral g, the all-seasons manage 0.28g and the summer tires produce a pitiful 0.15g". Guess where primacies here would go, even more so that imho for our car weight on ice/snow 215 width of stock size is simply too wide, with tire "snow-planing". Even less side-Gs on ice vs numbers above on snow. (ignoring for now existence of non street legal long-studded sport tires nicknamed "saws", which in some cases may provide more grip then summer tires on dry tarmac).
Hence my own preference is to never skimp on tires in winter and scratch out every slightest bit of extra grip possible. I can give up some, when it's plentiful. Prefering to get all i can when grip is scarce. Even if it's just for 5% of all driven mileage/time, that portion can be exactly that where one totals car, injures/kills someone (including self). |
I guess you missed the entire point of this thread, which is that in the PNW we hardly ever get any snow or ice on the road.
I'm perfectly fine just staying at home when there's snow or ice on the road, or Ubering to wherever I have to go.
My concern from the outset has been how well the tires perform when it's simply chilly/cold outside, like 40 degrees. Are you saying the Primacies wouldn't be able to pull 0.7 Gs when it's 40 degrees outside on dry pavement?