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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
Joined: Oct 2005
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Whenever I've Posted a Question , I always got a lot of good Tips and Information . I was thinking it would be valuable if Fire Members would Post their best Tip of the year . This might be an Item or Service Purchased or anything whatever where you said : Wow this is a lot better than I expected . I will start out with Car Tires . Here are some caveats : I live where it Rains almost every other day about half a year and Snows a few inches almost every other day in Winter with a few feet of Snow maybe 5or 6 times in Winter . I drive a FWD V-6 Car with plenty of Power and these usually come with High Performance V Rated Tires . I have used Michelin Pilots , Bridestone Potenzas , Nexen ( sp?) , Dunlop SP , etc . I really did'nt like any of these in heavy Rain even at 65 MPH . Continental Pure Contacts were fairly good though . Last Fall I read a ton of Reviews and decided to try Goodyear Assurance Weatheready . These are the best Rain Tires I have ever tried . That is especially surprising as the Tread Contact with the Road is about 8.5 inches . I would also Rate them Tops for Dry Roads , Road Handling and Braking . I have seen nothing even close from any other Brand . YMMV . A plus is that they have the " Snowflake " Symbol which I think means they are rated as a Snow Tire , not just an All Weather Tire . They are Asymmetrical and Uni-Directional and the Dealer said they would go thru deep Snow foreword great , but not nearly as good backward . I did not notice any problem in moving in deep Snow on my level driveway ( although due to Medical Problems ) I don't drive in really deep Snow . As a Minus . these Tires are a bit noisy and a bit hard ( but they are an Aspect Ratio of 45 ) so that is not surprising . Dealer said all Tires are Petroleum Based except for these , which are SoyBean Based . I don't think you could eat these in a pinch , but I do wonder about Rodents . I have put about 5000 Miles on them and wear looks good so far . They are amazing Tires ! Per the personal best handling pavement gripping all weather street tire, mine was a set of Perilliis but there was a trade off in that they wore out in less than 35K miles. I bought a car last year that had Pirelli Scorpions on it with about 22K miles on them, had to buy a set this year for it after putting 10K on them. Bought my wife a car this year with Scorpions on it too, and I can already tell I will be buying a new set next summer. My experience is Pirelli's are great if you want to take corners in a sports car, they suck on a crossover SUV I've bought 8 General Altimax RT 43 tires in the past 6 weeks. They're priced below other tires of equal quality,...sometimes by a wide margin. It's hard to find a bad review of them. They come in sizes to fit almost anything. https://shedheads.net/general-altimax-rt43-review/
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Joined: Mar 2010
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Campfire Regular
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Campfire Regular
Joined: Mar 2010
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There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!
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Joined: Mar 2010
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Campfire Regular
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Campfire Regular
Joined: Mar 2010
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Always sniff a gift fish.
There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 14,201 Likes: 1
Campfire Outfitter
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Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Sep 2004
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Don’t NEVER trust a fart. 😬 Especially at my age!
Well we're Green and we're Gold, and we play better when it's cold. All us Cheese heads have our favorite superstar. We love Brett Favre.
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Campfire Outfitter
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For large tips, you can't do better than getting a job circumcising Elephants
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