Poor snow handking...
01-02-2001, 08:53 AM
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Poor snow handking...
With the snow that hit the North East this weekend I was VERY disappointed by the braking / accelerating / handing of the TT. I do have the stock tires but I still could not believe how bad the car drove. My wife's front wheel drive Jetta also with stock tires ran circles around the TT.
Go figure.
Go figure.
01-02-2001, 09:01 AM
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you have summer tires on,..
what on earth do you expect?
you need to go read up on what happens to summer tires at temperatures below (and in your case far below) 45-50 F.
if your wife has stock summers on as well, the only explanation i can think of is that they have better tread and compound for dealing with such things,.. they're less high-performance tires.
you should both, at the very least, get some all-seasons.. i'd highly suggest winter tires.
...dave
you need to go read up on what happens to summer tires at temperatures below (and in your case far below) 45-50 F.
if your wife has stock summers on as well, the only explanation i can think of is that they have better tread and compound for dealing with such things,.. they're less high-performance tires.
you should both, at the very least, get some all-seasons.. i'd highly suggest winter tires.
...dave
01-02-2001, 09:06 AM
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Jetta at least has all-season tires...not as good as snow tires, but far better than performance...
....rubber in the snow. The tread pattern is all wrong for snow and the rubber compound gets hard at cold temperatures.
01-02-2001, 09:07 AM
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Re: Poor snow handking...
I put Blizzak tires on my TTQC and it performed awesome on sleep inclines with sheer ice, mixed with slush. The tires on the TT are ultra performance tires! That means dry waether and rain, not winter conditions! My girlfriend has a 2001 Jetta and it does OK in the bad weather because it has all season tires on it! You are comparing apples and oranges!
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01-02-2001, 09:37 AM
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Tires, tires, tires as everyone said. It's even in the manual.
If you haven't, try the forum's edit function. See URL below. It makes us all look better than we really are at posting.
Beats me as to why it isn't the default URL for this forum.
LM-22 Blizzaks here. Quite good for dry handling and so far so good in the few inches of snow we've had.<ul><li><a href="https://www.audiworld.com/forum/m.new/tt/">https://www.audiworld.com/forum/m.new/tt/</a</li></ul>
Beats me as to why it isn't the default URL for this forum.
LM-22 Blizzaks here. Quite good for dry handling and so far so good in the few inches of snow we've had.<ul><li><a href="https://www.audiworld.com/forum/m.new/tt/">https://www.audiworld.com/forum/m.new/tt/</a</li></ul>
01-02-2001, 12:52 PM
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Stock tires on Jetta are bland, every day tires. Stock Tires on TT are top of the line performance
monsters. The owners manual states to not take them out on Ice or Snow. You're lucky you didn't wreck.
Those tires become rock hard at 32 degrees if not 40 and are totally worthless on anything but dry (soemtimes rainy) pavement.
Those tires become rock hard at 32 degrees if not 40 and are totally worthless on anything but dry (soemtimes rainy) pavement.