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Originally Posted by DaveNW
Can you elaborate a bit on this? What happened?
Dave
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The day after Thanksgiving I drove out to see about an estimate on rock chips in my windshield. I turned a corner, say a speed yellow boxster parked in a lot, glanced over, looked back up the road and started to accelerate right into the sun and realized a red truck was stopped hundreds of feet in front of me. I slammed on the brakes and just slid.
Because it was just above freezing, my summer tires were hard and there may even have been some glare ice from earlier condensation and the road surface might have been below freezing through the air temps weren't. What would have been $3k max on a Honda was over $27k on my Porsche. The truck had a $25 trailer electrical connection to replace.
Old tires get hard. Summer tires get hard in the cold. No matter the tread. Tire manufacturers say below 40F is dangerous on summer high performance tires.
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