What have you purchased recently?

[Bic-B@ll]

over the weekend this

and this

happened.

i bought 4 cheapo steel wheels and quality snow tires this morning.

[dux]

That's some nice driving there bic.

[Bic-B@ll]

it only got better

[e-freak]

wow how could that happen? I don't know about US laws but over here you need to have special winter-tires during november till march and if you are travelling such a region you need steel wheels or you get stopped, pay 500€ and will be send back... o_O

[Sindwiller]

Well, you have the freedom to endanger your fellow Americans during the winter I guess.

[⌐■_■]

Well, you have the freedom to endanger your fellow Americans during the winter I guess.

oh you rebel..

[Bic-B@ll]

wow how could that happen? I don't know about US laws but over here you need to have special winter-tires during november till march and if you are travelling such a region you need steel wheels or you get stopped, pay 500€ and will be send back... o_O

basically, i gt out of school on thursday the 18th and went skiing instead of going straight home since the mountain is near school. dad met me there. there were a few inches on the ground but the road was dry. on friday it began snowing. we were going to leave saturday night after skiing but the roads were awful. we stayed till sunday and left that morning. after a few miles i was going down hill in second gear, didnt turn the wheel, touch the brakes or change where my foot was on the gas pedal. the car just started sliding horizontally, i was hoping to gain traction and never did, then i was hoping id hit the snow back and bounce off, i didnt. it was just fluff and i slid right in. you can see in the first picture, my dad's passat is in the road, thats how poor the roads were. i called a tow truck to pull me out, that cost 100. a cop came by and was like, you have shitty tires, go into town, get new tires tomorrow, or get a 200 dollar ticket. we went back into town, stayed over night and the morning after walked to the tow truck/gas station place to get new tires. he had none that would fit my wheels or new wheels+ tires that would fit. its a reallly small town and this was the only place. my dad had already missed a day of work and more snow was coming so we made the decision to drive to the next town which was larger and had snow tires. went down the same road again, even more carefully this time, and made it 4x as far and the same thing happened, only this time i slid to the left. i was going down hill in 1st gear, under 10 mph. i gout out, called the insurance company and got a free pull out. while waiting for the tow truck, state troopers came along. i sat in the front of his car and he wrote me a 200 dollar ticket for "driving too fast for the conditions" and said no matter how fast i was going i lost control and im getting the ticket and theres no fighting it. so im sitting in his car waiting for the tow truck and bam, a civic comes over and hill and locks its brakes and taps me, there was no damage. tow truck comes, pulls me out, i drive over to the side of the road and have the tow truck guy bring a flat bed and just drive me the rest of the way to the highway. that cost 150. once i got to the highway its was smooth sailing. t give you and idea of how terrible the road i was on was, here's a terrain view of the road with the two places i slid, i was going east. factor in the twists with the hills, add strong wind and a covering of snow on the road with no plowing, dirt, or salt. and two different pairs of shitty tires.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=E ... 9&t=p&z=12

wheels are arriving today and tires should be here monday. at home the snow is very minimal and not an issue, but where i go to school ill get use of the tires, plus ill be going back to the same area in vermont to go skiing and im sure i can use them again. i'll have two sets of wheels/tires from now on and hopefully wont be stuck in the same situation.

[dux]

These state trooper guys sound pretty retarded to me. Not much of a chance a cop would do that do you around where I live.

[Bic-B@ll]

i mean, its salt in the wounds, but i can understand it since driving in those conditions with shitty tires is simply retarded, i could have caused an accident very easily. i would have bought any tires in town if i could have, but they had nothing, i didn't really have a choice at that point.

[Ginger Lord]

Aren't you supposed to drive in a high gear in snow/ice anyway?

Either way it sucks, cops don't give tickets/fines like that out over here at all afaik.

[Bic-B@ll]

well for accelerating, yeah, high gear will lower your torque and reduce slipping, starting in second gear is the way to go in slipper conditions. but i was going down hill and was engine braking to slow things down

i ordered the wheels at 10 am on the 23rd and got them at noon on the 24th, free ups ground shipping from maryland. awesome. just need the tires

[-HP-]

Got it on steam for 5€!

[KoKo5oVaR]

you mean 5 dollars ?

[dux]

You haven't played it yet?

[-HP-]

eh eh, yeah, I've been postponing it all this months... I only played the demo when It came out, and never really had the chance to buy the full game.

Actually I was waiting to buy the PS3 version, I read it has some issues fixed, and some kewl bonus, but oh well, the low price seemed appealing to me on steam with all this surprise discounts, so yeah...

Played it for an hour, so far a really incredible game!