Two photos, same week

 

You have purchased one of the best snow vehicles on the planet. A good set of winter tires and you will be unstoppable. Drive safe.

 

No snow here yet, but I got the 39 degree warning yesterday for the first time. Winter is coming!!

 

New 2 us Trex 06 v10

Hello All, I have been lurking for a while and decided I needed to join. I pulled the trigger on a new2 us ride just this week.

Anxiously awaiting it from across the country.. v10 loaded < 40k never seen winter.

We live in Central northern NY. We are downsizing from our 2cnd Ford Expedition after 15 yrs. and 100+ k on both the 97 and 200k. This is going to be a HUGE change especially down sizing..

I have been reading the posts and frankly am very excited about this new ride. We are purchasing site unseen ( ony via pics) and it looks pretty awesome.

You guys all have so much information to offer.

It has 255/55/18 tires on it and I think it may need some Snow sneakers for winter.

Any suggestions for an all season semi aggressive yet good high way tire?
Should I stay with same size tire. ?

Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated

 

Congrats on the purchase. That's a leap of faith to land a V10 sight unseen!

There are as many opinions on tires as members here on the forum. But you might give the Bridgestone Revo2 a look. It's a moderately agressive AT that seems to be well-regarded on-highway and in the snow.

Good luck--Chris

 

Winter and v10

Chris, Thanks.. Yea I have only seen pics and talked to the owner many times. Yep trying to be trusting. This thing looks brand new. My bigger concern isnt him but just the V10 now.. I have been reading one bad for every one good entry on the forumm.. NOW I am stressing.. Thanks for the tire advice.. I have only ever had aggressive tires on my big truck

 

Chris, Thanks.. Yea I have only seen pics and talked to the owner many times. Yep trying to be trusting. This thing looks brand new. My bigger concern isnt him but just the V10 now.. I have been reading one bad for every one good entry on the forumm.. NOW I am stressing.. Thanks for the tire advice.. I have only ever had aggressive tires on my big truck

do not stress.. money and time fixes everything. it will be epic. very much jealous!

 

Great car, but get a good warranty ASAP.

 

Found this Touareg at Banff (Sunshine)

 

first snow hate it.... view from my work place this morning....

 

Fond memories of Sunshine, armpit deep powder. Got my Treg up to the UP of Michigan for some ski turns, did real well is snow and ice, glad i i got it. I have read the AWD sytem is an excellent one. What separates it from the lesser AWD systems??

 

Just about everything...ie:

Comparing it to the typixal 4x4 system you find in a pickup truck (like my F250) or expeditions and the like - You can't run them in dry weather in 4x4 mode. They don't have the high tech differentials the VW uses so you need to "switch" from 4x2 mode to 4x4 mode.

Comparing it to most SUVs - they usually run in fwd mode until things get slippery, then a clutch feeds power to the rear...this is really awesome, if you start spinning out the clutch will engage about halfway through the spinout, giving you all the traction you need to blast yourself into a tree or ditch...

The VW system is always in AWD, has an infinitely variable center differential (from wide open to 99% lock), transmits power dynamically to the wheels with the MOST traction (the opposite of what most differentials do).

An easy test to see how superior it is is this: get opposite wheels on ground and the other two up in the air - ie driver front and passenger rear - you can do this in a ditch or similar. The Touareg will power out of this situation, almost nothing else on the road will since the diffs will just send all the power to the wheels with the least resistance...this is easy to visualize, how many times have you seen a car try and move on an icy surface, only 1 wheel on the axle spins - its the wheel with the least resistance. Only way out of the situation described (other than the VW or similar system) is a locking rear and locking front diff. which almost no vehicles have.

 

another thing... coming from fords driving a V10 Touareg will blow your mind. you will wonder why you drove those pieces of american junk for so long. jst kidding on them being junk, not kidding on the v10 treg blowing your mind.

 

Amen brother!

 

Like klienbus said, keep on the gas!

 

OK. I'll try that soon and let you guys know.

 

On that kind situation I always keep on tiptronic and 1st gear....

On first gear, the traction control should come active after adding 200-300 rpm's so it doesn't require much, most important thing is not to do cycle "add-ease-add-ease" as then the computer cuts off the control and tries again.