Picked up some Conti Viking 7's from the dealer $1100 with steelies (tax included) for our GSW. The car is a beast with these new tires. So much traction!
Federal 595 RS-R. It's a very well priced tyre.
The best upgrade i did was ditch the stock faulkens at about 20-25K of use and went with 225-55-17 all season tire for summer use.
1st thing I did when I got my Alltrack was drive to discount tire and trade my Falkens for some Conti PURECONTACT LS. Got $50 per tire on trade. OEM tires always seem to be cheap versions of their namesake that wear our early etc. Swap em now or before next winter.
my last couple oil changes used Fram filters for their superior double layered synth media filtration.
I run 0.024 but I’m running Brisk plugs in my car on a custom tune. They’re pre-gapped to 0.026 and anywhere between those two would work fine for my specific plugs.
Replaced glow plugs with matched Bosch plugs and replaced glow plug bus bar with 10 gauge wire, checked all plug currents with a DC current clamp to ensure they were all drawing the specified amperage.
my GLI did it slightly but it went away when I switched to Centric Ceramic pads. Stock Organic pads were terrible in just about every aspect. The Centrics fixed every issue.
So I initially enabled the all weather light, city light, and rain light modes. I use my fog lights most of the time and didn't really like how the beam pattern changed when having them on, so I disabled the all weather mode. It is very hard to notice a change with city mode enabled, but if you come to a stop or accelerate from a stop you'll notice the beam pattern change slightly.
Just chiming in here from Wisconsin also with a PP GTI. I also have the ****ty stock Bridgestone AS and they are completely useless in the snow. I don't blame the diff at all as it can't make a ****ty tire magically increase its friction coefficient or change its design pattern.
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