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Thread: Ask a braker
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12-06-2018, 03:18 PM #1
Ask a braker
What are the best winter tires?
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12-06-2018, 03:30 PM #2
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12-06-2018, 03:47 PM #3
Tires don't actually matter that much. As long as you have AWD or 4WD you're good in most conditions, especially if you have an SUV.
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12-06-2018, 03:51 PM #4You are what you eat.
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There's no such thing as bad snow, just shitty skiers.
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12-06-2018, 04:06 PM #5
Great timing goat.
Just ordered from Tire Rack: 215/55R17 vs. original 225/45R18 X-Ice Xi3's. The narrower 17's are recommended to better slice through snow, but how will that effect winter braking?Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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12-06-2018, 04:47 PM #6
Is it possible to be both the gas, and the brake?
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12-06-2018, 05:01 PM #7
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12-06-2018, 05:05 PM #8
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12-06-2018, 05:29 PM #9
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12-06-2018, 05:33 PM #10
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12-06-2018, 05:37 PM #11
Good call
https://youtu.be/RvV3nn_de2k
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12-06-2018, 05:48 PM #12
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12-06-2018, 06:09 PM #13
snow tires on! at least until tomorrow. we quit having subaru swap our snow tires (separate rims) because in 6-8 years they've over-torqued, stripped, cross-threaded at the very least 6 lugs. we bought the new snow tires at costco and i go there to have them put on. last year i got to costco and they had three wheels off to find that subaru had crossthreaded 2 lugs on the last wheel so they couldn't do the swap because you have to have 4 minimum. since they don't do lugs, they had to put the all seasons back on and i had to go to subaru the next day for 2 hours to have them fix it.
i go to costco today and get the dreaded call from the tire department only 20 minutes after we checked in -- too early to be done so it can only be bad news. subaru over-torqued another lug. so tomorrow i get to go back to subaru to have them fix it. in more than 30 years at les schwab, not a single fucked up lug.
wrong thread. fack!
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12-06-2018, 06:12 PM #14
Ha, I spent the afternoon beating a stripped lug out of my subi after cross threading a lug two weeks ago whilst putting the snows on.
Damn, we're in a tight spot!
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12-06-2018, 06:15 PM #15
i talked to the service manager and he said it's an issue at the national meetings. it is a significant problem in numbers apparently caused by subaru's choice to use a softer steel in the lugs.
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12-06-2018, 06:15 PM #16
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12-06-2018, 06:19 PM #17
ft lauderdale biches
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12-06-2018, 06:28 PM #18
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12-06-2018, 06:59 PM #19
How the fuck can anyone cross thread a lug nut?! Iv'e been putting on tires since I was 12-13 years old...it aint rocket surgery.
Costco told me they had to clean off all the anti seize Iv'e put on the threads because it can lead to over-torquing. At least 46 tire changes in 23 years and I was doing it wrong all that time, huh. Never ever had an issue.
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12-06-2018, 08:08 PM #20
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12-06-2018, 08:42 PM #21Registered User
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I got tired of twisting off rusty lug nuts when removing them. I used a bearing grease for years with no issue. Then I got new tires mounted at Tire Rack and they twisted off the first three lug nuts they tried to torque to 83 ft/lbs. Anti seize isn’t as slippery as grease, but it still affects torque readings
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12-07-2018, 10:54 PM #22Registered User
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Use a torque wrench set to the manufacturer spec. Get cheap wheels with your winter tires and do the driveway swap twice a year. Anti seize or a dab of waterproof grease if you have lazy highway people.
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