With the current cold weather in Northern California / Bay Area, anyone have any concerns driving with the summer performance tires?
I have been driving with the Kumho SPTs and no problems so far, but should temps in the low 20's and 30's affect anything?

 

i dont think so the roads are too bad. but it did rain to night so i dont know

 

If there's ice on the road, you're toast so make sure to slow waaay down. The summer tires perform like crap in cold/slippery conditions. Everyone up here in Oregon/Washington's been dealing with it for a while now.

 

OT : After a week of 100 F+ weather (105 yesterday) with 10% humidity, I can't even remember what 20-30F would even feel like ...

 

My 2 Cents: Don't drive the car in the cold temps. Sports cars aren't for winter (unless you have one of those "I can't decide whether I want to drive off or on road" 4wd types). My car gets to sit in the garage with his own little blanket to cover him during the winter. Then again, we get about 4 thousand feet of snow here.

 

Good thing I live in Miami. There is no winter here. That season is skipped.

 

Yes it did, Im in tampa and our xmas was in the 80's LOL

 

I bought my 8 last February. With only about 6 weeks of winter left (around here people put winter tires on around Thanksgiving and take 'em off around April 1st), I decided to hold off on winter tires for the six short weeks. (For me, driving is optional, and I only take the car out on weekends.)

But I also decided to a) not take the car out if there was ANY chance of snow or ice, and b) to take it real easy on curves on dry roads.

Temps often dropped into the teens and 20's—I didn't have any problems. (Though, as I said, I never took her out on snow and I drove her with kid gloves on the curves.)

 

I was sweating yesterday.

I've said it before and I'll say it again:
I'm moving.

 

but the panhandle is always hit with disaster storms that rip out homes and flip cars over miles. Hmm.... killer storms vs. fulffy snow.

 

I've never seen snow.. So.. Yeh..

 

mine sits in the garage as usual.. =)

 

Its been in the 20's at night and 60's during the day around here.
Coldest winter in 16 years in Phoenix.
The car loves it.
Wish I could say the same for my ficus trees...

 

nyc here and its around mid 20s right now O_o

and at night ....

I still take my car out, but I'll just let her idle for 5-6 minutes before I even move her out slowly.

 

Here the temp is -27 celcius and my 8 run really fine. We have approximatly 4 feet of snow but the road are clear. I'm really happy to have heater on my leather seat !!!!!!! This is the best time to hear the engine reeving. I have RB ram air with RB intake and RB Exhaust. The sound is really cool.

 

Here's what I was up to on Saturday. (mind you, I live in SoCal)

 

Here we have a lot more snow !!!!!!

 

We have had a really mild winter here in MN and were joking about how those that haven't had practice driving in the snow shutdown with a bit of snow.

Only had one day so far that I have had to start in third without slipping the tires.

Cold weather affects the stock rubber a lot more when it is new but even so they don't fare well in sub 40 degree F with any precipitation.

 

Difference betwin here and california

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Sorry for the preview post.

 

Central Coast dropped down to 11 degrees but no moisture - super dry so driving fine except cold bit the battery. It was a recall item and I got new one free from dealer with twice the cranking power. (Valley Mazda takes very good care of customers). Would not go out to play if the road was icy or snowy - but if I had to, I would use my old trusty 15 year old Mazda 323 which is perfect for bad roads, mud, sand storms, hauling goats, hay, and trash -
RX-8 is the town car - treat it nice, keep it polished and pretty, take it to car Rallys and hot springs

 

We did notice a rash of 8's towed for flooding. Combination of extremely cold weather and no warm up. Was 11 degrees in good old Paso Robles. Snowed in Malibu yesterday. Armageddon?

 

Nope, just a cooling cycle - it started about 1992 will run until about 2010 with cold and warm jags inbetween - warming will run from about 2011 until 2019, then it cools again. The Global Warming gang were just a little premature....

 

This morning I stepped out to my car only to find the temperature pegged at a chilly 38F. I moved here two weeks ago. This is not the SoCal I had in mind...

FS