What we have learnt today is that your wife gets the least appropriate tyres 😜 Thanks for the trip down tyre avenue, lots of stuff I’d never heard of but then we live in ‘moderate’ climes and drive “meh” tyres all the time. I recall a trip to Norway as a kid and being super impressed with their pit stop installations: Leaving the safe urbanised area and heading North into some real winter wonderland, there was a barn that cars drove into like a drive thru burger joint, paid a handful of cash to a person and then the car got jacked up and bish bash bosh we had deep snow tyres, possible with chains, the whole thing took a few minutes and we all stayed in the car. Two weeks later on the way down it took a few minutes more for them to retrieve our original set but still, complete drive thru. Very cool for tiny me! Anyway, thanks for the entertainment, stay safe and best of luck to your wife! 😝
If I had ended catastrophically (12:30), I would not be able to leave a comment! Good to see you back. Hope everything is good. Thought that maybe a sasquatch ate you. I have Continental year-round tires on my car and don't go anywhere in it, if it snows. My truck has some beefy Cooper 4x4 tires on it, but I still don't go anywhere if it snows. I'm old and can get away with that crap! You said something about see you in the spring. I hope you aren't going to stop posting videos. I enjoy your content and the encouragement for the young gearheads that you teach.
I run Continental's on my Lucerne. I do like the ride. As for driving in snow, I make it a point to never drive on the first few days of the first snow of the year. It take a while for drivers to get used to the snow conditions. I am also old I guess at 63.
goptools: I always look forward to your comments!! A combination of a busy school start, enthusiasm waning, and I'm just finishing up a machine I'm building (video soon).
5:18 look like Toyo TR1. I do sprinting in the UK (similar to your Autocross but on a circuit, not a car park with cones). I normally run Michelin PS4 but have tried these Toyos. It makes me think of one thing you didn’t mention - sidewall strength. The Toyos are actually softer than the Michelins and this is reflected in quicker 64ft times (measured time of first 64ft. 64ft because if you do it in 2 secs it’s supposed to be 1G of acceleration or something). Anyway, the Toyos are slower overall in spite of being softer and grippier because, I believe, the side walls are weaker and the tyre rolls over more in cornering. Just a thought. But yes, they are cheap! Michelins are not. Oh, and for track use I limit age to 3 years. I’ve put 3 years younger Michelins on the front of my car and hit a cone on turn in because the added grip made the car understeer less! Same PS4 tyre, just 3 years younger.
They were not excitingly stiff when mounting them. I neglected to mention that you want _soft_ sidewalls for winter tires. My bias-ply slicks have almost nothing in the sidewalls.
I had a set of tyres on my Trillium trailer that I pulled off of a Honda Civic. They were rather jiggly. The tyres COULD handle the mass of the trailer (about 1500#) but they were definitely not designed for a trailer. Around here (Edmonton) we get snow on top of a nice base of ice, so mounting your winter tyres on a set of black steelies is definitely the way to go. WHEN you whump a curb, it's $90 to replace a rim rather than OMGYouWantHowMuchForAFriggingWheel?
I agree that Blizzaks work, but they are expensive, and the wear rate is spectacular. In a bad way. I have put them on around Christmas here in PA, and most of the "magic rubber" is gone when I take them off. Unfortunate when it hardly snows or gets icy. A fair amount of the tread thickness is "normal" rubber, so they may still appear to have quite a bit of life left, but only give the performance of a typical all season then. The handling is very bad when they are new, and improves as they wear, like most tires, but more so.
Magic always comes with a price, and the Scottsman in me doesn't like that price either. They are _good_, but only the first season and a half. I want a more consistent use out of my tires.
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Thanks Glen , Your skills never fail to amaze me. Thanks for sharing knowledge.
What we have learnt today is that your wife gets the least appropriate tyres 😜
Thanks for the trip down tyre avenue, lots of stuff I’d never heard of but then we live in ‘moderate’ climes and drive “meh” tyres all the time.
I recall a trip to Norway as a kid and being super impressed with their pit stop installations:
Leaving the safe urbanised area and heading North into some real winter wonderland, there was a barn that cars drove into like a drive thru burger joint, paid a handful of cash to a person and then the car got jacked up and bish bash bosh we had deep snow tyres, possible with chains, the whole thing took a few minutes and we all stayed in the car.
Two weeks later on the way down it took a few minutes more for them to retrieve our original set but still, complete drive thru. Very cool for tiny me!
Anyway, thanks for the entertainment, stay safe and best of luck to your wife! 😝
Sumitomo. Ice edge. Winter tire. 😊 👍👍
If I had ended catastrophically (12:30), I would not be able to leave a comment! Good to see you back. Hope everything is good. Thought that maybe a sasquatch ate you. I have Continental year-round tires on my car and don't go anywhere in it, if it snows. My truck has some beefy Cooper 4x4 tires on it, but I still don't go anywhere if it snows. I'm old and can get away with that crap! You said something about see you in the spring. I hope you aren't going to stop posting videos. I enjoy your content and the encouragement for the young gearheads that you teach.
I run Continental's on my Lucerne. I do like the ride. As for driving in snow, I make it a point to never drive on the first few days of the first snow of the year. It take a while for drivers to get used to the snow conditions. I am also old I guess at 63.
goptools: I always look forward to your comments!! A combination of a busy school start, enthusiasm waning, and I'm just finishing up a machine I'm building (video soon).
@@GregWellwood Thanks for the update. Glad it wasn't a sasquatch accident!
5:18 look like Toyo TR1. I do sprinting in the UK (similar to your Autocross but on a circuit, not a car park with cones). I normally run Michelin PS4 but have tried these Toyos. It makes me think of one thing you didn’t mention - sidewall strength. The Toyos are actually softer than the Michelins and this is reflected in quicker 64ft times (measured time of first 64ft. 64ft because if you do it in 2 secs it’s supposed to be 1G of acceleration or something). Anyway, the Toyos are slower overall in spite of being softer and grippier because, I believe, the side walls are weaker and the tyre rolls over more in cornering. Just a thought. But yes, they are cheap! Michelins are not.
Oh, and for track use I limit age to 3 years. I’ve put 3 years younger Michelins on the front of my car and hit a cone on turn in because the added grip made the car understeer less! Same PS4 tyre, just 3 years younger.
It's a Nitto Neo Gen. I want to try Avon slicks on my Super 7 - most folks here run Hoosiers ($$$$), but I understand Avon has even softer compounds.
@ ah right. Very similar tread pattern to Toyo TR1 then. Info on sidewall stiffness still relevant but I’m not sure how stiff Nitto sidewalls are. 👍
They were not excitingly stiff when mounting them. I neglected to mention that you want _soft_ sidewalls for winter tires. My bias-ply slicks have almost nothing in the sidewalls.
I had a set of tyres on my Trillium trailer that I pulled off of a Honda Civic. They were rather jiggly. The tyres COULD handle the mass of the trailer (about 1500#) but they were definitely not designed for a trailer.
Around here (Edmonton) we get snow on top of a nice base of ice, so mounting your winter tyres on a set of black steelies is definitely the way to go. WHEN you whump a curb, it's $90 to replace a rim rather than OMGYouWantHowMuchForAFriggingWheel?
I agree that Blizzaks work, but they are expensive, and the wear rate is spectacular. In a bad way. I have put them on around Christmas here in PA, and most of the "magic rubber" is gone when I take them off. Unfortunate when it hardly snows or gets icy.
A fair amount of the tread thickness is "normal" rubber, so they may still appear to have quite a bit of life left, but only give the performance of a typical all season then.
The handling is very bad when they are new, and improves as they wear, like most tires, but more so.
Magic always comes with a price, and the Scottsman in me doesn't like that price either. They are _good_, but only the first season and a half. I want a more consistent use out of my tires.
Thanks for the video! Would you be interested in making a video on TPMS? It would go well with this one.
Cheers, Paul
Everything we ask the car to do, go stop and turn, we ask it to do through the tires.
Yes, hate to pay the man ;-)
Quit saying that W word! I'm still in denial
I have another accent you need in Vernon… lol
If it's cheap.... I'm looking to do another V8/RWD conversion.