[DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway/tires?

Wed Oct 29 14:48:04 EDT 2008

Jim Hendrickson skrev:
> 
> 
> I think studded tires are required in Norway.

I doubt they have to be studded. Winter tires are required under winter 
conditions in Sweden, but studs are optional.

Studs are illegal in Germany btw.

> 
> Jim, 
> a Swede, Dane, Norwegian mongrel lost in the southeast.
> 
> 

Thomas

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
> Behalf Of adin at frontier.net
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:49 PM
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway/tires?
> 
> 
> 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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