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Old Mar 13, 2010 | 01:54 PM
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Taunting Mother Nature

Surely she will fight back...

 
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Old Mar 13, 2010 | 05:48 PM
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Last year I put on the summer tires 1 week too early. I'm willing to bet you're a tad early too.
 
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Old Mar 13, 2010 | 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by MiniMaybee
Last year I put on the summer tires 1 week too early. I'm willing to bet you're a tad early too.
Oh sure I am..but can swap back out in about 15 minutes w/ my winter wheels...if needed
 
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Old Mar 14, 2010 | 10:51 AM
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Well, since I never changed from the summers (Neogen m&s) 180 tread. I guess your both late.

Nice set of wheels, it appears you did a full detail too.
 
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Old Mar 14, 2010 | 08:08 PM
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I taunted her on Friday when I fully cleaned my car and went for a nice drive. Now it's dirty again. SIGH
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 05:05 AM
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I'm going to switch to my summer tires/wheels for the trip to AMVIV. Since the tires are getting toward EOL (end of life), I'll probably buy a new set now, even though I could get a few thousand miles out of them. New summer tires will do better than almost worn summer tires in bad weather. My winter tires are still very young, but the wheels they're mounted on are the common stock type (no offense).
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 09:44 PM
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I put my Summer rubber on today too. I wanted it on for AMVIV. <fingers crossed>
 
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 08:52 AM
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Same here

My OZs are on as well.... it's a pain in the axx to clean those... but oh well... I will have Jenn do it...
 
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 08:57 AM
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I think it's time to buy my summer wheels and tires. I'm keeping the snows on my oem wheels.
 
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 03:43 PM
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Fresh rubber

Brand new Yokohama S.drive on MB Weapon wheels (gun metal). Offering a sacrifice to the gods for good driving weather to AMVIV...
 
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 03:54 PM
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Big snow forcasted for Colorado, Kansas and Iowa this weekend... good luck all that have their summer shoes on.
 
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by pauhana
Brand new Yokohama S.drive on MB Weapon wheels (gun metal). Offering a sacrifice to the gods for good driving weather to AMVIV...
Rick I just did the same thing...Yoko S.Drives too. I'm leaving Sunday It'll be clear by then.
 
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Old Mar 19, 2010 | 08:07 PM
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Yoko S.Drives

I'm waiting put mine on. I was a little late taking them off.....we got heavy snow and I couldn't even make it up my driveway.
 
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Old Mar 19, 2010 | 08:32 PM
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I rolled around in mine today and was fine. They handled the wet/slick pretty well. Not like the JCW Dunlops I had on the Summer rims.

PS I'll have those Dunlops for sale here when I get back from AMVIV
 
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