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Old Oct 26, 2012 | 10:45 AM
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Arrow Sports car winter tyre test

Feel free to move or delete. I posted it because they're using a 991.

 
Old Oct 26, 2012 | 01:24 PM
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Old Oct 26, 2012 | 01:30 PM
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sweet!! I ordered a set of these Michelin Alpin 4's last week, they are going on for this winter. Thanks!
 
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yea not going to lie, my pirelli 240s are really starting to annoy me grip wise ... time for a change
 
Old Nov 1, 2012 | 07:07 PM
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I live up in the Pacific Northwest - this time I am prepared! Two little fronts and two big rears, lol..gotta love it. I happened to order these same tires a week or two before the video posted earlier. Waiting on a
floor jack floor jack
from amazon and realized I didn't have a current
Torque Wrench Torque Wrench
. Looking forward to finally changing my own wheels. Everyone at the Porsche dealership was remarking on how these tires are more aggressively treaded than they had seen before and they all agreed I would be having a lot of fun this winter




 

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Love those tires !! It should be a blast during the winter, you'll have to do a write up after the first couple snows.
 
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Great test. Thanks for posting. The season is upon us guys, call me if I can help!
 
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right on guys! Thanks. Told the wife already, she's on roadside tire performance video duty this winter, lol.
 
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I live in the Bay Area and planning to occasionally drive my 4S to Tahoe in winter just for fun ...wonder if I really need to spend money to get winter tires given its a 4S...I'm leaning towards..no need?
 
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I live in the Bay Area and planning to occasionally drive my 4S to Tahoe in winter just for fun ...wonder if I really need to spend money to get winter tires given its a 4S...I'm leaning towards..no need?
Maybe depends if you are gonna do something like drive 395 through all the mountain passes or something. I used to do that, stop on the side of the road and look up north to the snow falling, then pan south and watch everything turn brown and dusty all in one view..love the Tahoe/Truckee area. I dunno..when it comes down up there, it can really come down.

Spent the 90's living in Cow Hollow (just south of the Marina)..Union and Fillmore in San Francisco..drove a Honda Civic Del Sol through all those winters and never *needed* tire chains with its front wheel drive, but there were some very close calls with no one coming the other way up on those mountain passes and I wished I was better prepared.

P.S. nice avatar pic! That 4S rear is gorgeous. Can't wait to see yours!!!
 

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