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Tue, 04 January 2011 14:59  |
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Well just got back from my New Years Trip, and on the way back from NorCal to Los Angeles, and ofcourse the whole state was in the grips of a winter storm, and Natrually the Grapevine got snowed in and closed down. For those not familure with I-5, the grapevine is the 40 some mile pass that must be climbed to get back in the LA area, when that is closed, only 2 options remain, either back to the Coast via Paso Robles which often has its own issues with high winds, or up the 58 through the Teahachipi Summit to the 14 via Mojave in the high desert. As luck would have it I chose the latter to the former, and after a quick stop in bakersfield for some Monster energy drinks I headed up 58. at about 2500 feet we started getting high winds and light snow. I had to pull over since the wind somehow opened the right side engine hatch. I tied it down with some wire and soldiered on up the grade. Soon it was snowing, and then snowing heavily! Natrually CalTranz is usually slow to react with salt and the road soon was covered with the cold white stuff. The rig has new Dunlop RVxt tires all the way around and these Tires have an extreme weather rating and are advertised to have great snow and ice traction. Well allow me to say the tires lived up to the hype and stuck to the road while other cars with lesser capability went sliding and many wound up stuck on the side of the road.
We stopped at a Loves in Teahachipi to top off the tanks incase we were gonna have to camp out in the snow and to get some hot coffee. So onward we went with the defroster on and furnace on full blast. It was a nice comfy 78 degrees in the coach and outside was about 28 with an unknown windchill. The normally 7 hour ride back to LA took 12 hours and going over the 14 in Lancaster we encountered ice, once again the rig held steadfast and we plowed on. I thin the combo of the tires and Front Wheel drive of the coach made that drive possible. The only thing that would make it better would be one of Jim K's LSD final drives!
So I'm wonderineg who else here has any snow stories with their rig?
73 Canyon Lands, (a.k.a. The Yellow Submarine) West Los Angeles CA
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| Re: [GMCnet] Driving Through Snow and Ice: Dunlop's on the job! [message #110799 is a reply to message #110798] |
Tue, 04 January 2011 15:14  |
Mike Teets
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Location: Dublin, OH
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I have the opposite story... I pulled my 77 Palm Beach out of its garage
spot into the blacktop driveway. There was snow on the ground but the
driveway had been cleared. After some maintenance work on the GMC I started
to back it into the garage. There were two 1 foot square ice patches on the
otherwise completely clear drive. As I backed up, both front tires came in
contact with the two patches of ice... So there I am, completely stuck on a
perfectly flat blacktop drive. Had to pull the GMC with my Avalanche to
free it! My tires are Michelin Rib XPS... don't leave home except in the
summer!
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Shan Rose <defconfx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Well just got back from my New Years Trip, and on the way back from NorCal
> to Los Angeles, and ofcourse the whole state was in the grips of a winter
> storm, and Natrually the Grapevine got snowed in and closed down. For those
> not familure with I-5, the grapevine is the 40 some mile pass that must be
> climbed to get back in the LA area, when that is closed, only 2 options
> remain, either back to the Coast via Paso Robles which often has its own
> issues with high winds, or up the 58 through the Teahachipi Summit to the 14
> via Mojave in the high desert. As luck would have it I chose the latter to
> the former, and after a quick stop in bakersfield for some Monster energy
> drinks I headed up 58. at about 2500 feet we started getting high winds and
> light snow. I had to pull over since the wind somehow opened the right side
> engine hatch. I tied it down with some wire and soldiered on up the grade.
> Soon it was snowing, and then snowing heavily! Natrually CalTranz is usually
> slow to react w
> ith salt and the road soon was covered with the cold white stuff. The rig
> has new Dunlop RVxt tires all the way around and these Tires have an extreme
> weather rating and are advertised to have great snow and ice traction. Well
> allow me to say the tires lived up to the hype and stuck to the road while
> other cars with lesser capability went sliding and many wound up stuck on
> the side of the road.
>
> We stopped at a Loves in Teahachipi to top off the tanks incase we were
> gonna have to camp out in the snow and to get some hot coffee. So onward we
> went with the defroster on and furnace on full blast. It was a nice comfy 78
> degrees in the coach and outside was about 28 with an unknown windchill. The
> normally 7 hour ride back to LA took 12 hours and going over the 14 in
> Lancaster we encountered ice, once again the rig held steadfast and we
> plowed on. I thin the combo of the tires and Front Wheel drive of the coach
> made that drive possible. The only thing that would make it better would be
> one of Jim K's LSD final drives!
>
> So I'm wonderineg who else here has any snow stories with their rig?
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| Re: [GMCnet] Driving Through Snow and Ice: Dunlop's on the job! [message #110809 is a reply to message #110799] |
Tue, 04 January 2011 17:52 |
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Wow, I'm surprised that little ice would be such a problem, I mean I drove through 50 miles of the stuff and at least a couple inches on the ground before the plows and salt trucks got there and it just kept going...
| Mike Teets wrote on Tue, 04 January 2011 15:14 |
I have the opposite story... I pulled my 77 Palm Beach out of its garage
spot into the blacktop driveway. There was snow on the ground but the
driveway had been cleared. After some maintenance work on the GMC I started
to back it into the garage. There were two 1 foot square ice patches on the
otherwise completely clear drive. As I backed up, both front tires came in
contact with the two patches of ice... So there I am, completely stuck on a
perfectly flat blacktop drive. Had to pull the GMC with my Avalanche to
free it! My tires are Michelin Rib XPS... don't leave home except in the
summer!
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Shan Rose <defconfx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Well just got back from my New Years Trip, and on the way back from NorCal
> to Los Angeles, and ofcourse the whole state was in the grips of a winter
> storm, and Natrually the Grapevine got snowed in and closed down. For those
> not familure with I-5, the grapevine is the 40 some mile pass that must be
> climbed to get back in the LA area, when that is closed, only 2 options
> remain, either back to the Coast via Paso Robles which often has its own
> issues with high winds, or up the 58 through the Teahachipi Summit to the 14
> via Mojave in the high desert. As luck would have it I chose the latter to
> the former, and after a quick stop in bakersfield for some Monster energy
> drinks I headed up 58. at about 2500 feet we started getting high winds and
> light snow. I had to pull over since the wind somehow opened the right side
> engine hatch. I tied it down with some wire and soldiered on up the grade.
> Soon it was snowing, and then snowing heavily! Natrually CalTranz is usually
> slow to react w
> ith salt and the road soon was covered with the cold white stuff. The rig
> has new Dunlop RVxt tires all the way around and these Tires have an extreme
> weather rating and are advertised to have great snow and ice traction. Well
> allow me to say the tires lived up to the hype and stuck to the road while
> other cars with lesser capability went sliding and many wound up stuck on
> the side of the road.
>
> We stopped at a Loves in Teahachipi to top off the tanks incase we were
> gonna have to camp out in the snow and to get some hot coffee. So onward we
> went with the defroster on and furnace on full blast. It was a nice comfy 78
> degrees in the coach and outside was about 28 with an unknown windchill. The
> normally 7 hour ride back to LA took 12 hours and going over the 14 in
> Lancaster we encountered ice, once again the rig held steadfast and we
> plowed on. I thin the combo of the tires and Front Wheel drive of the coach
> made that drive possible. The only thing that would make it better would be
> one of Jim K's LSD final drives!
>
> So I'm wonderineg who else here has any snow stories with their rig?
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| Re: [GMCnet] Driving Through Snow and Ice: Dunlop's on the job! [message #110850 is a reply to message #110798] |
Tue, 04 January 2011 22:21 |
jayrabe
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Location: Portland, OR
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Wow. Impressive performance. And what a rush to get through that kind of weather with such success!
No stories to share, as my tires are 8+ yr-old Michelin's and I've been trying to not drive them much. But I have been doing lots of research on what tires to get to replace them, and your RVxt's sound great. What size are they? And how are they for road noise?
Thanks
J
76 PB
Portland, OR
> Well just got back from my New Years Trip, and on the way back from NorCal to Los Angeles, and ofcourse the whole state was in the grips of a winter storm, and Natrually the Grapevine got snowed in and closed down. For those not familure with I-5, the grapevine is the 40 some mile pass that must be climbed to get back in the LA area, when that is closed, only 2 options remain, either back to the Coast via Paso Robles which often has its own issues with high winds, or up the 58 through the Teahachipi Summit to the 14 via Mojave in the high desert. As luck would have it I chose the latter to the former, and after a quick stop in bakersfield for some Monster energy drinks I headed up 58. at about 2500 feet we started getting high winds and light snow. I had to pull over since the wind somehow opened the right side engine hatch. I tied it down with some wire and soldiered on up the grade. Soon it was snowing, and then snowing heavily! Natrually CalTranz is usually slow to react
w
> ith salt and the road soon was covered with the cold white stuff. The rig has new Dunlop RVxt tires all the way around and these Tires have an extreme weather rating and are advertised to have great snow and ice traction. Well allow me to say the tires lived up to the hype and stuck to the road while other cars with lesser capability went sliding and many wound up stuck on the side of the road.
>
> We stopped at a Loves in Teahachipi to top off the tanks incase we were gonna have to camp out in the snow and to get some hot coffee. So onward we went with the defroster on and furnace on full blast. It was a nice comfy 78 degrees in the coach and outside was about 28 with an unknown windchill. The normally 7 hour ride back to LA took 12 hours and going over the 14 in Lancaster we encountered ice, once again the rig held steadfast and we plowed on. I thin the combo of the tires and Front Wheel drive of the coach made that drive possible. The only thing that would make it better would be one of Jim K's LSD final drives!
>
> So I'm wonderineg who else here has any snow stories with their rig?
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| Re: [GMCnet] Driving Through Snow and Ice: Dunlop's on the job! [message #111139 is a reply to message #110850] |
Thu, 06 January 2011 20:37 |
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Jay, Sorry it took so long to get back to you, had some PC issues. but I dont plame you for not trusting those old tires, get them Replaced ASAP! I had old tires on my rig and the rear propane door got damaged when one let go! it was 2 days before I got my Dunlop's on.
here is a picture of the aggressive tread of the RVxt
They are the standard 225/75/R16 in Load Range E so a typical size and they are USA made. Not a dmestic brand anf farmed out. I was originally going to get diferent tires when I found the Dunlop's and did a little research on them. The ride is softer than my old tires even with 70# pounds in them and despite the aggressive tread road noise doesnt seem to be any different then wih my old Highway tread, I have about a thousand miles on these and sofar i"m happy with them. you can get them from www.onlinetires.com for about $124 each. I picked up locally so I didnt have to pay shipping, but I still had to pay sales tax.
Hope that helps 
| jayrabe wrote on Tue, 04 January 2011 22:21 |
Wow. Impressive performance. And what a rush to get through that kind of weather with such success!
No stories to share, as my tires are 8+ yr-old Michelin's and I've been trying to not drive them much. But I have been doing lots of research on what tires to get to replace them, and your RVxt's sound great. What size are they? And how are they for road noise?
Thanks
J
76 PB
Portland, OR
> Well just got back from my New Years Trip, and on the way back from NorCal to Los Angeles, and ofcourse the whole state was in the grips of a winter storm, and Natrually the Grapevine got snowed in and closed down. For those not familure with I-5, the grapevine is the 40 some mile pass that must be climbed to get back in the LA area, when that is closed, only 2 options remain, either back to the Coast via Paso Robles which often has its own issues with high winds, or up the 58 through the Teahachipi Summit to the 14 via Mojave in the high desert. As luck would have it I chose the latter to the former, and after a quick stop in bakersfield for some Monster energy drinks I headed up 58. at about 2500 feet we started getting high winds and light snow. I had to pull over since the wind somehow opened the right side engine hatch. I tied it down with some wire and soldiered on up the grade. Soon it was snowing, and then snowing heavily! Natrually CalTranz is usually slow to react
w
> ith salt and the road soon was covered with the cold white stuff. The rig has new Dunlop RVxt tires all the way around and these Tires have an extreme weather rating and are advertised to have great snow and ice traction. Well allow me to say the tires lived up to the hype and stuck to the road while other cars with lesser capability went sliding and many wound up stuck on the side of the road.
>
> We stopped at a Loves in Teahachipi to top off the tanks incase we were gonna have to camp out in the snow and to get some hot coffee. So onward we went with the defroster on and furnace on full blast. It was a nice comfy 78 degrees in the coach and outside was about 28 with an unknown windchill. The normally 7 hour ride back to LA took 12 hours and going over the 14 in Lancaster we encountered ice, once again the rig held steadfast and we plowed on. I thin the combo of the tires and Front Wheel drive of the coach made that drive possible. The only thing that would make it better would be one of Jim K's LSD final drives!
>
> So I'm wonderineg who else here has any snow stories with their rig?
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| Re: [GMCnet] Driving Through Snow and Ice: Dunlop's on the job! [message #111280 is a reply to message #110850] |
Fri, 07 January 2011 21:38 |
jimk
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You needed our Limited Slip Differential then.
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Jay Rabe <jayrabe@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Wow. Impressive performance. And what a rush to get through that kind of weather with such success!
>
> No stories to share, as my tires are 8+ yr-old Michelin's and I've been trying to not drive them much. But I have been doing lots of research on what tires to get to replace them, and your RVxt's sound great. What size are they? And how are they for road noise?
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> Thanks
>
> J
> 76 PB
> Portland, OR
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>> Well just got back from my New Years Trip, and on the way back from NorCal to Los Angeles, and ofcourse the whole state was in the grips of a winter storm, and Natrually the Grapevine got snowed in and closed down. For those not familure with I-5, the grapevine is the 40 some mile pass that must be climbed to get back in the LA area, when that is closed, only 2 options remain, either back to the Coast via Paso Robles which often has its own issues with high winds, or up the 58 through the Teahachipi Summit to the 14 via Mojave in the high desert. As luck would have it I chose the latter to the former, and after a quick stop in bakersfield for some Monster energy drinks I headed up 58. at about 2500 feet we started getting high winds and light snow. I had to pull over since the wind somehow opened the right side engine hatch. I tied it down with some wire and soldiered on up the grade. Soon it was snowing, and then snowing heavily! Natrually CalTranz is usually slow to react
> w
>> ith salt and the road soon was covered with the cold white stuff. The rig has new Dunlop RVxt tires all the way around and these Tires have an extreme weather rating and are advertised to have great snow and ice traction. Well allow me to say the tires lived up to the hype and stuck to the road while other cars with lesser capability went sliding and many wound up stuck on the side of the road.
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>> We stopped at a Loves in Teahachipi to top off the tanks incase we were gonna have to camp out in the snow and to get some hot coffee. So onward we went with the defroster on and furnace on full blast. It was a nice comfy 78 degrees in the coach and outside was about 28 with an unknown windchill. The normally 7 hour ride back to LA took 12 hours and going over the 14 in Lancaster we encountered ice, once again the rig held steadfast and we plowed on. I thin the combo of the tires and Front Wheel drive of the coach made that drive possible. The only thing that would make it better would be one of Jim K's LSD final drives!
>>
>> So I'm wonderineg who else here has any snow stories with their rig?
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