[DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway/tires?

[adin at frontier.net]

Dear Scandanavian Brothers:

What is the tire of choice for winter???  Blizzaks?  something secret?

thanks,

David, a swede lost in the southwest


Quoting gudmund frøland <gudmundfroiland at yahoo.no>:

> I bought a Pantera from US this summer ,picked it up in Oslo abouth   
> 7 weeks ago poring down with rain the whole 500 km home,ordered time  
>  for Norwegian plates and got time today. Woke up in the morning   
> realise it was snow outside,nerly craying of had to take the car out  
>  for a drive in this misserable weather.Drowe away 30 km for   
> inpection.Car worked fine and no comments while checked.
>
> Best regards     Gudmund Froiland
>
>
> --- Den ons 2008-10-29 skrev Larry - Ohio Time Corp <larry at ohiotimecorp.com>:
>
>> Fra: Larry - Ohio Time Corp <larry at ohiotimecorp.com>
>> Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway
>> Til: "'Thomas Tornblom'" <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>, cengles at cox.net
>> Kopi: detomaso at realbig.com
>> Dato: Onsdag 29. oktober 2008 17.05
>> It is always a good news day when the southern parts of the
>> US get snow and
>> ice. The local news shows all the people sliding all over
>> the place.
>>
>> It is also good to know how fast to drive and when not to
>> drive in bad
>> weather.
>>
>> Larry - Cleveland
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
>> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
>> Behalf Of Thomas Tornblom
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:43 AM
>> To: cengles at cox.net
>> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway
>>
>> cengles at cox.net skrev:
>> > Dear Torbjorn,
>> >
>> > You wrote:
>> >
>> >> And Yuppie to day the first snow fall, with a
>> total chaos on the main
>> >> roads. Several 100 cars of the road.
>> >
>> > Please help me understand this situation. We in the
>> subtropical zone of
>> Oklahoma and Texas think that all residents of Scandanavia
>> are completely
>> familiar with cold, white snow material and are completely
>> competent to
>> drive in it. We think that the reason one or two inches of
>> snow paralyzes
>> Dallas or Oklahoma City and sends hundreds of vehicles into
>> ditchs, other
>> cars and freeway retaining walls is that we do not know how
>> to drive in the
>> snow. It would seem that Norwegians also have a short
>> memory and have to
>> re-learn each winter, too?? I just don't see how that
>> can be, but several
>> hundred Norwegians off the road don't lie. Aren't
>> you all supposed to be
>> natural ice, snow and rally drivers??? ;-)
>>
>> The same thing invariably happens every year in Sweden on
>> the first snow
>> and frost. It is as if snow  and ice is something
>> completely unheard of.
>>
>> I must also say that snow and frost is much worse in areas
>> that don't
>> normally see much of it.
>>
>> We who live up north has always looked down on the people
>> living in
>> southern Sweden, or anywhere closer to the equator, where
>> they run into
>> massive traffic issues if there are just a few snow flakes
>> coming down.
>> After having driven through southern Sweden during a
>> relatively mild
>> snowfall in December they get much more respect from me. I
>> have seldom
>> experienced anything so slippery and messy.
>>
>> It is normally much drier and colder up here, which gives a
>> much better
>> grip.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas
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