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2011 Nismo#91

Glad your alright, there's nothing you can do sometimes and ice patches are just pray it's not a big patch. RWD, FWD, AWD, or as many wheels as you want, zero traction is zero traction.

IMO get any cheap beater, FWD or AWD would not have changed the out come of what happened there.

synolimit

Car doesn't matter, its all the tires.

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2011 Nismo#91

No tire will give you good stopping distance on wet ice.

synolimit

Tire racks ice rink tests for winter ice/snow tires would highly disagree with you. They're over half the stopping difference of a summer and half that distance is an all season. Say he slid 100 feet, he could have stopped and regained control in 50. Plus in 4 years of winter driving on ice/snow tires I've never once come close to slipping on ice.

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Justice97

Knock on Ice....errr I mean wood.

synolimit

Lateral movement with a ice/snow tire around a corner is also reduced. My summers will slide out at 3mph and put me into a curb. A ice/snow tire within the safe speed limit of a corner holds firm, no chance of slip. Also confirmed with tire rack on a ice rink.

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2011 Nismo#91

So your going to drive at no more then 10 mph during the winter on the highway, which is the speed they did the test at.? And all your ice is going to be nice dry ice rink ice during the winter. I agree with the results that winter tires help and are much better then summer tires but that test is not practical real world conditions.

If you hit a patch of wet ice like you have during or just after an ice storm on the highway your not going to stop in 10' shown in the test, more like a few hundred if your lucky enough to be on a flat area of pavement.