How cold can you go with summer performance tires???

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Feb 25, 2010 | 03:32 AM
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Originally Posted by utkinpol
I was quite lazy to change my PS2 set to PA2 set and I can tell more or less precisely - at 28 degrees PS2 totally transforms into glass. When I moderately pressed on accelerator leaving gas station my rear completely lost traction and went sideways. It felt very wrong. PA2 on same temperature were rock solid. At 32 - 34 degrees I also felt some lost traction, but it was was not yet like riding on glass. At 28 degrees it was non-drivable.
+1 on this. My PS2s are dreadful below about 4 degrees C (just under 40 degrees F). On damp roads at this temp there's hardly any grip at all and as Utkinpol says, the car just feels very wrong indeed.
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