How Cold Have You Driven Your Vette?
01-18-2024, 02:41 PM
#21
Melting Slicks
I'll be D-mned! I have lived in the northern cold climates all my life. I was wrong!
It would be good to check your tires and see if they are summer only tires. I checked my Micheline tires, whew, they are all season.
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/SB-10082862-5448.pdf
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/SB-10082862-5448.pdf
It would be good to check your tires and see if they are summer only tires. I checked my Micheline tires, whew, they are all season.
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/SB-10082862-5448.pdf
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/SB-10082862-5448.pdf
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01-18-2024, 04:30 PM
#23
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Getting my hair cut today, my barber was telling me about his 81 Vette. He says he doesn't drive it in frigid temps because the fiberglass body can crack. Now, I haven't heard anyone say that in years, and I recalled hearing that when I was (much) younger. Was that a myth, even back in the 80's. or is there truth to it? Lets say teens and colder. I won't be driving mine for a while. Salt everywhere and more coming.
But never any issue with the fibreglass body. The only time it cracked was on a summer day when someone totally not paying attention driving beside me slammed into me not bothering to check if anyone was in that lane!
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01-18-2024, 04:55 PM
#24
Drifting
Coldest so far has been 9 degrees F. 
01-18-2024, 07:35 PM
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We install the Michelin A/S runflats in cold weather, so no 20'F limit on those.
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01-19-2024, 07:11 PM
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Since my OEM summer only tires are still in great shape, you can guess it's not all that cold. 
01-19-2024, 07:17 PM
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45 degrees
01-20-2024, 12:25 PM
#29
Pro
I used to drive a 2005 C6 year round…in all conditions including full blown blizzards with practically zero visibilty. The coldest I remember was a little bit below -27 deg C (-17 deg F). At that temperature the Pirelli Sotozero’s were getting hard and slippery. No other issues with the car!
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01-20-2024, 10:57 PM
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Drove my '05 Vert over the Rockies in a blizzard in 2006.
It was single digits, and was scary as all get-out. Factory summer tires.
Stupid level, and lucky to have made it.
It was single digits, and was scary as all get-out. Factory summer tires.
Stupid level, and lucky to have made it.
01-22-2024, 03:52 PM
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I've pulled out of the garage in the upper 20s, no further on the Michelin PSS for me.
01-22-2024, 03:54 PM
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Getting my hair cut today, my barber was telling me about his 81 Vette. He says he doesn't drive it in frigid temps because the fiberglass body can crack. Now, I haven't heard anyone say that in years, and I recalled hearing that when I was (much) younger. Was that a myth, even back in the 80's. or is there truth to it? Lets say teens and colder. I won't be driving mine for a while. Salt everywhere and more coming.
Older ones, no idea, doubt it.