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Old 01-23-2013, 09:50 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by LeeMaster View Post
You live in Florida, I dont think you have experienced snow/ice roads before. And yes the cold weather renders the stock michellin tires useless, I know that from experience. It has nothing to do with driver error, come up to Minnesota in negative degree weather and drive on our roads for a day with stock tires and write a review about it.
I grew up in northern Ohio and have driven on ice.

If you drive a car with tires you know aren't capable of the conditions, and then drive it aggressively as he stated, it's driver error. Period. He's driving outside the known limits of the vehicle given the conditions. That is *not* a problem with the car.

Hell he's even turning on VSC sport. In negative 0 degree weather. Come on now....
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