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Old 01-10-2002, 03:14 PM
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Default TT stock tires...

I just a 2002 225 TT and it has Michelin Pilot Sport tires...I did a little research on Tirerack.com.

The tires don't seem like they'd be that horrible in snow and rain?

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What kind of tires came stock on your TT?
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Michelin USUALLY has an excellent reputation for rain and snow? Sport tires or not!
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Default only an idiot drives a summer tire in the snow....get some blizzaks or ALpines

and save yourself a trip to the body shop and hospital.
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Yep, mine (Coupe Quattro, 225 HP) came with same tires. I also checked at the Tire Rack, but their illustration shows a tire with a different pattern. Mines have a pattern more like W's (why??). I don't have a problem with snow though (I live in Puerto Rico), but the tires are really good anyway.
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Where do you live...if you get one of snow a year, maybe..Otherwise I defer to BuLLit.
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Default Re: Where do you live...if you get one of snow a year, maybe..Otherwise I defer to BuLLit.

I live in good ole New Jersey....
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Get winter tires, pookie!
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Default Highperformance summer tires begin to chunk and loose grip below 60F, which makes

them both unsuitable for cold weather running in rain and the dry. In the snow even with all wheel drive IF your try out summer tires even with deep tread in the snow and ice you will probably definetely crash.......Its not so much the tread pattern that dictates a tires performance but the compund of the tread which wil effect how it will perform in cold weather....
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2002TTQC 180 same tires. If you get snow get winter tires. Summers suck in Winter!
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Any true performance tire will not work in the snow!


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