Thank God we have front wheel drive!! I drove back and forth to work in the snow (all 18 inches of it) on my oem conti tires!! 70 miles, 35 each way of both highway and back road. can't tell u how tense it was turning onto the road that I knew had a 1/2 mile gradual incline to it. kept it at 20mph in 2nd and kept my forward momentum and too my surprise she made it up without an extra spin. they actually were not as bad as i thought they would be but wouldnt recommend it had some impreza fly by me doing like 40-50.

 

Impressive! Glad you made it back safely. Are you still stock?

That sounds too fast for the Imprezza to be going. I've noticed a higher number of 4x4's and AWD's in the ditches this year. It's ugly too when they go. I saw a Dodge Ram Daytona on it's top, an F150 that rolled and crushed the cab in pretty good, jeeps, F250's... crazy man.

 

im on stock contis in the winter as well there not to to bad considering traction control and if you know how to drive but 18 inches wow...

 

lol you apparently don't know how to drive if you have traction control on in the snow.

 

well i do actually and my car does great literally no tire slip on take offs nothing its great my lnf does better then my 2.4

 

I drive with TC on and off... just depends. I turn it on for the hwy in case of slick spots.

The only time TC has NOT worked is trying to get up my drive. I just need that little bit of wheelspin. I found that out one night when I failed to get up the drive, turned it off and then made it up.

 

exactly have to use it to your advantage sometimes but the driveway agreed its off lol my car is deff not seeing another winter

 

TC will actually hurt you if you hit a slick spot and will made you spin out worse. The best thing to do is NOT jam on the brakes when you start to slip which is what traction control does.
traction control on + stock tires + snow = epic fail

 

You guys have got to be nutts driving with the stock contis in the snow!

 

AWD doesn't help any when you have to stop. Those WRX guys are crazy.

 

I did it a few times last year but stopping was unbearable abs or not. Blew a stock Conti on a pothole and replaced all 4. Much better with BFG g-Force SS A/S this winter. Conti DWS 235/40-18 when these are gone next year.

 

refer to my post in the off topic section sir...

I too drove with these stock continentals in the snow. yes, its fine if you know what your doing but dont expect the average driver to understand how dangerous these tires are in the snow, they get NO traction.

 

We had a late ice storm last year the second week in April; exactly 2 days after I swapped back to my summers. I hit the brake in my driveway and slid sideways, yes sideways, and decided at that point I should phone in "stuck at home" to work because there's no way I was even going to attempt making it to work on those things. We all know they're summer only but holy jesus I had 4 hockey pucks on my wheels for all I knew .

 

i was forced to drive with my direzza sport Z1 star spec's in teh snow before my blizzaks were installed. running those 245's in the snow was a nightmare.

 

Hey! Now leave us wrx drivers out of this

 

You think stock Conti's on the LS/LT's are bad (Trust me, I've driven on them myself in my old G5), try Cooper Zeon ZPT's... NO traction what-so ever on snow. I might as well have banana peels on my rims.

 

you should ride in a wrx with winter tires in some hard packed snow... its awesome

 

You should drive a snowmobile on hard packed snow. Now THAT is awesome.

 

they are not to bad on snow for summer tires, just dont stop for a while, lol ull spin for a while. i went through a winter on them, but im loving my winter tires this year.

 

tc limites the engines power and doesnt use the breaks. ESP will pulse the brakes but will do it only on the tires where you dont have traction.

 

All I know is that I'm glad my SS doesn't have T/C. I've been screwed many times by trac in the V6 F-bodies.

 

traction control doesnt apply the brakes...it just closes the throttle...

 

basically when you man up and get some winter tires, is like discovering a secret unfair weapon in a video game

 

I know what a good set of snow tires are like. I just havn't had the balt long enough to order them. I had Blizzaks on the G5 whenever I rolled it.

 

Whenever it snow, i just turn my TC off, I feel i like i can predict what the car is gonna do more with it off, I dont know, its just me i guess.