Cruzinaround

I just swapped to my winters ..

Pirelli Scotozero Serie II ...

Best High performance snow tire you can get on a Stang.

Norm Peterson

Trust these guys on this.

Depending on how hard you're "playing", it won't take anywhere near all of your car's 280 ft-lbs of torque to make the tail more than a little nervous.


I was at a road course track day this past Saturday, and one guy slid completely off the track about the same time that Matt's 95 Stang was posting in this thread. This driver was running in an entry-level group that was following a pace car at no more than 50-ish mph at the time. Wet track, temp somewhere in the 40's . . . kind of like the conditions you'll find in ordinary street driving.


steev - I would plan on anybody's max summer performance or extreme performance summer tires to have lost a noticeable amount of grip by about 50°F and a significant amount by 45 °F. Those are my observations. With care (and lots of attention) you can get around on them at cooler temperatures, but it's foolish to push your luck on this.


Norm

2005Redfire6

The colder the better! As long as its now snowing/frozen of course...

drewsky

Car has more power in cold temps! Once it's warm go ahead. I'm in phx area so winter days are like 70's. No need for winter tires, I feel it's better for my car honestly, hate getting on it with 100 plus temps. Feels like it's hurting it more, especially with AC on

Cruzinaround

The Biggest problem ... no matter how good the Winter tires are .... is ice. Ice makes a 4x4 and AWD vehicle on snow tires just as useless as a Mustang. Its the equalizer for winter driving conditions. Unless you're going with studded snow tires, which is a waste in most temperate climate zones since you might have this condition maybe two or three times in a winter. On those days...stay safe .... stay home. Other than that...If you go with a really good performance snow tire in slush, sleet, snow or cold and wet conditions...You'll likely handle like you would on a really good set of performance summer tires in July heat. And if you really have the money to burn... Those winter tires stick like Velcro when used in the summer....Because the compounds used are soft and pliable in sub zero temperatures, thus improved stopping distances and handling in cold weather translate to the same in summer. That said if you have them on for some of the warmer months...you will handle like your car is on rails....but you will wear them down very quickly... And most winters have a lower speed rating than summers...the best ones will have a top speed rating of 149Mph...where as most good summers will be anywhere from 169 to 189 Mph rated... just saying.