driving in the rain

[patsparks]

By the way, pie are round. [/b]

Adelaide's favorite pies, Balfours meat pies are square.

[David Beale]

Well, in New York weather (where the OP is), I would recommend Nokian WR tires. You will be able to use them all year round, as they are true all season tires, and have the snowflake symbol on the sidewall, meaning you do not have to "chain up" on interstates like other all season tired vehicles must in certain situations.
I'm putting them on Pearl asap, as we have six month winters here. They work well on ice and snow, are great rain tires, and wear very well, even on hot dry summer roads. They are not cheap, however. You do get what you pay for.

[paprius4030]

When it's raining........Slow down!! and don't drive like an idiot....Same as with any other car.

[dhancock]

I'm a relatively new owner (but now have 10Kmiles). I've noticed a greater tendency to spin with the stock tires too. I attribute it to the higher low speed torque that you have with electric motors, more than anything else. I'ts no big deal though as between the traction control and more linear gas (? is that the correct term?) pedal action it is easy to control.

[williab]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Sep 2 2007, 11:19 AM) [snapback]505842[/snapback]</div>

It's not the car's fault, it's the tires. Just about anything would be an improvement.
By the way, pie are round.
[/b]

I guess the general opinion is the tires suck - will stick it out for fall and get snows and then change in spring - if pi is not sqd in my class you fail -

[samiam]

Just been through one of the wettest winters on record here. Not even one occasion of loss of traction, no wheel spin, no problems.

[tochatihu]

Whatever tires or chosen inflation pressures, on this topic I always like to nag.

The wet traction decreases rapidly when tread depth is below 3 mm (well above the legal wear bar limit). It may not be to your best advantage to get those last few thousand miles out of any set of tires.

[Tchou]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pie r sqd @ Sep 2 2007, 12:45 AM) [snapback]505567[/snapback]</div>

Been bragging about my week old Prius and several people who know people who have them said that they have problems driving in the rain,wet roads - slipping , hard to control - ???????? what's up with that ????? if true, how do you compensate for it ??????? I do plan on getting snow tires of some sort but rain ????? Any info is appreciated
[/b]

One good reason would be that they may have over inflated their tyres, Lot of people advice here to inflate more than the Toyota Recommended value to increase MPG, they do gain MPG and Grip on a dry road, but the drawback is that the grip is lost on wet road... The Toyota given value is the average value for both dry and wet road good handling...

[Tchou]

nt

[seasalsa]

Of course it don't rain much around here but I have 57,000 miles on OEM tires (2 Sets) and have never had trouble driving in the rain or snow.