Wider Tires = LESS Traction ??

[SuperStang83]

The cold is hurting your traction a lot man. I remember whenever I would leave work at night the car would spin the tires everywhere unintentionally, but after about a minute or two of driving the would hold solid. They are a hard tire and not getting that warm, you're gonna have to wait till summer to really see how good or bad they are.

 

[Katmandu]

Are the tires new? If so, all tires come with some mold release still on them. They will have bad traction till the mold release wears off. How many miles are on the new tires?

They are brand new. Got them off EBay.

They have less than 100 miles on them.

 

[Katmandu]

The cold is hurting your traction a lot man. I remember whenever
They are a hard tire and not getting that warm, you're gonna have to wait till summer to really see how good or bad they are.

That's what I was afraid of.

I'm pondering getting a set of Winter only tires so I can still drive it when it's BELOW 40 degrees outside!

It does NOT get driven in the snow and/or rain (if I can help it).

Any recommendations for a good inexpensive COLD weather tire ??

I don't care about snow traction, just COLD dry road traction.

 

[Katmandu]

They even recommend not ot drive in temps under 40 with them.

Where did you read that reference ????

If I had read that somewhere, I would NOT have wasted my $$$ on them.

 

[wythors]

From the Tire Rack description of this tire: Like all summer tires, Ecsta Supra 712 tires are not intended to be driven in near-freezing temperatures...

 

[bynummustang]

Well I have nothing new to say. Wait until it warms up, then hammer away.

 

[Loco5.0]

I had drag raced my cars on Kumho tires & they have been great. I used to pull 1.8 60's on them in my old 95Z

 

[montyd]

i live in the south bend IN, area and have a summer tire just like yours, had the car out saturday when it was almost 50 still no traction. its just to cold for the tires man. another couple months and you'll have good traction

 

[Katmandu]

From the Tire Rack description of this tire: Like all summer tires, Ecsta Supra 712 tires are not intended to be driven in near-freezing temperatures...

Roger that.

That's what I get for NOT reading the full description.

My guess that "near-freezing" means anything less than 50 degrees outside huh ?

 

[Katmandu]

i live in the south bend IN, area and have a summer tire just like yours, had the car out saturday when it was almost 50 still no traction. its just to cold for the tires man. another couple months and you'll have good traction

Well, it finally went above 50 degrees today and I pulled the Stang out.

I took it out the back roads and did a bunch of hard launches.

The Kuhmos are definitely grabbing MUCH better! NOT great by any means, but MUCH better. They are tolerable now.

Hopefully the warmer it gets, the stickier they will become.