North Texas freeze and our summer tires, do you still drive your Stinger?

[gilthanis1]

hmmm what exactly were you doing when things went "pear-shaped? lol
good choice in past cars, I used to drive a 96 GSR in forest green.

It was nothing truly major, but I had JUST picked the car up from repaint on Friday after 9.5 weeks and was me being 'oh hell i just got it back PLEASE don't slide or scratch anything!'

It was a couple of tightening turns on a small 2-lane county road, and we all know how well they are maintained (read: not). Temp was 40-41 and it had been raining all day, running 35-40 MPH, and the dips and bumps in the turn just made the car feel more 'loose' and like it wanted to slide than usual. Same roads yesterday, same conditions, and the car just felt better with the A/S 3+ tires than the PS4 summers. It was planted, not even a hint of loose. This morning was horrendous rain in 36-37 degrees and I was cruising comfortably on the highway at 55-60 and city streets at 35-40, hitting standing water and kept right on going.

I feel more comfortable with the A/S tires, and the car feels more planted and controllable, to me, but YMMV depending on a number of different conditions.

Side note: I miss my GSR's tremendously. I love driving them and wish I had kept 1, but life said otherwise. Medical retirement from the Navy and permanent back and legs problems made climbing in and out of it pretty painful. It's one of the reason I am so happy with the Stinger is because I can ride in it for long trips and not be in constant pain.

 

[Doel]

It was nothing truly major, but I had JUST picked the car up from repaint on Friday after 9.5 weeks and was me being 'oh hell i just got it back PLEASE don't slide or scratch anything!'

It was a couple of tightening turns on a small 2-lane county road, and we all know how well they are maintained (read: not). Temp was 40-41 and it had been raining all day, running 35-40 MPH, and the dips and bumps in the turn just made the car feel more 'loose' and like it wanted to slide than usual. Same roads yesterday, same conditions, and the car just felt better with the A/S 3+ tires than the PS4 summers. It was planted, not even a hint of loose. This morning was horrendous rain in 36-37 degrees and I was cruising comfortably on the highway at 55-60 and city streets at 35-40, hitting standing water and kept right on going.

I feel more comfortable with the A/S tires, and the car feels more planted and controllable, to me, but YMMV depending on a number of different conditions.

Side note: I miss my GSR's tremendously. I love driving them and wish I had kept 1, but life said otherwise. Medical retirement from the Navy and permanent back and legs problems made climbing in and out of it pretty painful. It's one of the reason I am so happy with the Stinger is because I can ride in it for long trips and not be in constant pain.

I miss that car too, would make for a great beater these days. There was always something about slamming gears at 8k RPMs. I absolutely thrashed that car and it never had a single issue.

So we've had two straight days of high 30s/low 40s and rain, I drove an hour in the rain yesterday at 39 degrees. I drove like normal, going the speed limit and grandma acceleration, and never lost traction. I even did some brake stomps at 40 mph near my house and the car stopped just fine. The car behaved like normal until I tried to push it, just to see what would happen, of course there was 0 traction in those cases.

This morning it was 29 and snow flurries, again no issues. The road was probably around 35-36.