I was a lucky boy this week and spent 3 days in Germany, as the guest of Continental.
I wont bore you all with the factory visit, beers on the coach with several workmates, and generally enjoying myself, the best bit was yesterday(fri)
we were taken to an advance driving centre where we got in various top end , beemers ,audis,and mercs, and drove on man made iced roads,they had various things built into the road which when activated threw the front or rear of the car into a spin or slide and you had to avoida water wall put in front of you to simulate obstacles.
all this was fun ,but the main point was that correct winter tyres did not justmake you stop they were the only thing that makes you stop!
cars with winter tyres were pulling up in 10 meters, ones without just did not stop.apparantly its under 6 degrees that normal tyres lose it! i will be buying a set of winters sticking them on some steel wheels for the jag next year, they will do about a 1 third less mileage.
I wont bore you all with the factory visit, beers on the coach with several workmates, and generally enjoying myself, the best bit was yesterday(fri)
we were taken to an advance driving centre where we got in various top end , beemers ,audis,and mercs, and drove on man made iced roads,they had various things built into the road which when activated threw the front or rear of the car into a spin or slide and you had to avoida water wall put in front of you to simulate obstacles.
all this was fun ,but the main point was that correct winter tyres did not justmake you stop they were the only thing that makes you stop!
cars with winter tyres were pulling up in 10 meters, ones without just did not stop.apparantly its under 6 degrees that normal tyres lose it! i will be buying a set of winters sticking them on some steel wheels for the jag next year, they will do about a 1 third less mileage.
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