New England B.S. Thread

We haven't had power at 7/11 since 5. It's gonna be another hour

 

Chris (ABA180),

These are for you. I just pulled them out of my Mom's cellar. I've already got the tires inflated and I need to give them a good scrub and once over.

 

so im going on vacation to westerly ri from this Saturday til tues night, is there anybody that is down in that area that want to do a meet and greet?

 

I wish I wasn't so busy. A day at watch hill and a night at paddys sounds like fun haha.

 

Tide home from Freeport was crazy, doing like 40 on the highway, lightning everywhere, people pulling over

 

damn, but its worth it lol, when I went a few weeks ago it was packed with so many hot girls

 

Yeah, same here. I wasn't even on the highway, either.
My home town got flooded out, too. Two feet of water on Broadway for the evening news last night, haha!

But man, people are stupid. I went grocery shopping after work (which happened to be shortly after they issued a tornado warning for western Maine), and I literally watched the bread aisle empty out. Same thing for eggs and milk. It's a thunderstorm; not a three-day blizzard!

 

It was pretty nuts. I saw a Coyote Mustang fly by doing probally 65-70 and not 100yds down the road hit a spot of pooled water and get all squirrely almost causing a nice pileup on 295 by Biddeford. Some people are just dumb, speed and low pro tires in a monsoon don't mix...

 

Gah, was going to get 33x10.5 BFG AT's even though I really don't like them because 33's would look so much better. BJ's in Portsmouth has them for ~168/tire + $15/tire install with a $70 instant coupon, so essentially covering install. But Tire rack has 31x10.5 Grabber AT2's on sale for $127. Sent Town Fair Tire an email seeing if they will price match the $127/tire. Also made it clear that I would pick them up at the CT distro center, so they can't factor in any shipping cost, and that they would have no sales tax if I purchased from Tirerack and picked them up. We'll see what happens...

 

I never understood that mentality in a blizzard... You could potentially be on house arrest for days, likely to loose power, lets go out and buy all the perishable stuff we can. In a blizzard where I could potentially be locked up for a few days, I'm going after water and canned food.

 

No common sense is the problem, and lack of comprehending that the your local open 24hrs/7day/365 Price Chopper/ Stop & Shop, etc.. may have to close if conditions get bad enough. Also, I think a general lack of people learning as children basic survival/camping skills that has led to a mentality that what I need will always be available at the corner store.

 

Hate Grabber AT2's. I had them in 31's on a Nissan Hardbody and they chopped all to hell, even with frequent rotations (every 3k when I changed the oil) and a couple of rebalances.
They had decent traction, though.

 

Meh.
At least with a blizzard you've got tons of natural refrigeration available.
I want to get an old icebox, so the next time we lose power I can just move my perishables into that. This winter when we lost power for the week around Christmas I was stuck using a couple of coolers. They worked, but the food endured a lot of freeze/thaw cycles.


I keep enough food on hand that really my only blizzard prep is to fill the tanks on the trucks and fill the wood racks for the stoves. We've got a hand pump for water if the power goes out, and the wood cookstove, grills, and coleman for cooking.
I do want to get a propane kitchen range, though. I hate the electric one we've got now.

 

Depends on the tires. The Toyo Proxes T1-S I had were awesome in the rain. I couple snowflakes and I wasn't going anywhere though.

 

I did a bunch of reading on them last night. They revised them sometime in 2012, so maybe the chopping has changed? I was looking more at the traction side of them, specifically their reported excellent traction in winter/ icy conditions and their severe snow service rating. They seem to be basically a BFG AT, with an updated tread compound that;s not rock hard, and slightly wider voids in between treads. Plus reportedly very tough sidewalls.

As much as I want a 33" tire since they just look so much better, when having a moment of reasonable thinking factoring in the amount of driving I do a year in all conditions, and the amount I actually get out and off-road a 31" aggressive AT tire going to be just fine. And then i'll just scour craigslist for a set of used 33x10.5 BFG KM2's and beat up 15" alloys to use for offroading if I come across them.

 

Depends how much rain too. Low pro tires like that just don't do well in heavy rain/ standing water. I've had all the top ones on my track car: Dunlop Star Specs (now Direzza), Bridgestone Re-11's, Yoko Advan AD08's ,Hankook RS-3's, Conti SportContact. None were good in standing water at highway speeds. There was very little tread depth/ actual tread on them. Maybe the Mustang had less aggressive street tires, but still low pro tires in general don't have the tread depth/ voids to evacuate heavy water.

 

Seems like a solid plan

 

Trying to be slightly "responsible" for once in my life.

 

It sucks huh

 

Could be. I had them on that truck in 2009-ish, so it's entirely possible that they've fixed the chopping problem. I'm sure that the much-abused and worn suspension on that Nissan didn't help matters either.
One other thing was the awful awful gas mileage I got with them. The entire time I had them on I never got over 16 mpg. On the same truck I averaged 17-19 with Cooper Discoverer ST's. They may have addressed that also by now, though.