What is everyone doing come winter? Are you buying new rims and tires or just tires? I was going to just get new tires then I was told the salt will kill our rims What to do?

 

I am planning on mounting Semperit Sport Grip snow tires on the OEM rims.

 

Im getting new tires, but i dont know what exactly yet, Id say you really have to. It might be interesting with the stock tires in some snow though.

 

I got caught in a heavy/slushy April snow and it was not fun...esp. when I was still trying to get used to the dynamics of the Evo.

 

I might just get another car... a Snow car... but my Car isnt all that great anyways...

 

My 1st choice, buy new ride 2nd new rims and tires, 3rd is to just get new tires. What will happen just get new tires. Choices 1 and 2 are to costly. What will happen to our rims.

 

I want to keep my Stock rims to use for winter, but i want to get a second set of them to powdercoat white for the rest of the year......That would be ideal, but wont happen for a while.

 

I for one am gonna slow down...and watch for ice a bit more...
this is what happened last year.. when I totalled my first lancer..
at 60mph into a tree!

 

also wear my set belt.. at the bottom of the pic i zoome in and you can see where my head went through the front window!!!
Someone was watching over me that night cause I walked away from the accident!

 

Damn! Bad accident.

I for one am not gonna buy new tires for now. I want to see how our stock Evo tires hold up in winter. I work in the city so driving around town won't be difficult cuz you can't hardly go fast in Chicago traffic!

 

DON'T DO IT MAN!!!

I've already totalled an EVO (first accident ever since 10 years driving in all kinds of conditions with many different kinds of cars) because of the Advans!!

It was a scary experience!.. I'm lucky I wasn't going fast!.. Me and my wife got away without a scratch!..

This happend during that freak snow storm the first week of April here in Chicago:

I was going about 30mph down a one-way street here in Chicago when all of a sudden the car just starts drifting to the left!!!! I had no chance... the car starts spinning when I attempted to adjust the car, and BANG!... I hit a parked car.. Car was badly injured though, and the parts to fix the car plus the labor was more then 70% of the value of the car, so my insurance company (thank you state farm, you rock!) got me a brand new car..

I'm getting winter or just all season tires for these stock wheels as soon as they run out (very soon.. i already have 8k miles and they are starting to run low.. probably by the end of the summer they'll be history) or as soon as fall comes around (whichever comes first, because I want to be safe!)!

I'm not sure which tires yet.. but I'll figure that out when the time comes..

I suggest you think of getting a second set of wheels and tires, or just getting other tires for the winter!! It's for your safety's sake!!! TRUST ME!!!

 

dude just don't drive if you like your car, i rolled my lancer into a ditch takin a turn at 90, i mean the car gripped just fine i have the rmr strut bar and new toyo tires but after the turn i wasn't able to keep controll due to the massive understeer, or over steer, not sure which one it was but whatever the car wanted to keep turning right into some trees so i rolled it down into a ditch

 

If people realized how much better snow tires are in the snow versuses those stock EVO tires, everyone in the snow belt would just buy snow tires.

Those stock Yokohama tires on the EVO are just going to slide all over the place in any amount of snow. A front wheel drive Ford Escort with snow tires will out accelerate, brake, and turn on you in the snow.

later,
Curt

 

Driving performance summer tires in the winter is a really bad idea--if you've never done it before, you probably won't believe how bad they are--it feels like they have literally 1/10th the grip of regular all-season tires.

Even my FWD Integra was useless wearing SP-8000s--I remember taking a right turn at a traffic light really slowly (< 5 MPH) and the car very slowly rotated 270 degrees over about 5-10 seconds, ignoring all steering/throttle inputs, until I was facing backwards, luckily in my intended lane, and had to drive a block in reverse gear before I could get flipped back around (it was on a pretty busy street, very embarassing)

Often the braking zones before stop lights get iced over from people locking up their tires and melting the snow, and it's the ice that's really the killer. I can just picture an Evo sliding very slowly into an intersection until that shiny FMIC is wrapped around someone's trailer hitch...!

On another topic, does the fact that we don't have the trick center diff mean that we can't use the handbrake to get out of an understeer situation in the snow? My understanding is that the fixed LSD center diff will keep the back wheels from locking up while the fronts are spinning.

 

Wow this thread brought back bad memories. Sorry to hear about all of you. I guess all season tires is after the boost controller. What is the most any one of you have went or would go with the stock evo tires?