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Originally Posted by ChrisSlicks
Your tires lost their grip because they are Summer tires and you are driving them in Winter. You need to be on all seasons or winter tires in the Winter. FWIW the grip would have come back in the spring. The Ventus will have slightly more Winter grip as the compound is slightly more durable, but it is still a Summer tire, not ideally suited to Winter conditions.
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When the car was new in the winter of 2009 the tires had good traction even into the single digit temps. That traction started to decrease in September 2010. Tread was still good on the old tires so the stickey compounds in the tires must have gone south. Maybe I should have kept them for doing a little drifting
