Reply to "High-performance tires and cold, wet weather"

Sorry to hear about your car. I think the major contributer to your incident was the 5 degrees C. My tire guy preaches over and over that summer tires, even all seasons basically turn to stone at 6 degree C and below. High performance tires are probably a couple degrees worse (8C). Not suggesting you get snow tires for a Pantera but on our daily drivers the benefits of winter tires are more than a snow capable tread pattern. They have an entirely different compound that stays soft at low temps. Also explains why they wear so fast if you leave them on in the summer. So your SLIDING - KEEP SLIDING is pretty much the expected reaction on cool wet roads. On a dry road they would have likely hooked up again. Thanks for sharing your story. Out here in the east we had some very nice but cool weather early in the season and was tempting to take the car out a bit early. Good lesson for us all.