The long road home - Intro and an epic road trip all for a car.

[Ponto]

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Great reporting, Ryan, and equally awesome pics.

Thanks eddy!

Sent from my Igloo

[Spooling_turbos]

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Great reporting, Ryan, and equally awesome pics.

[Ponto]

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Second day! Got on the road shortly after noon and a quick car wash for the dirty girl.





Then bam! On the highway, this stretch of road has quite the different views than the first bit. Amazing how much it changes over a few hundred miles.







Stopped to take some pictures along the way as well!







Getting close! Less than an hour to Vancouver at this point!



Fuel got more expensive the further west I went too...



That's per litre, so if I was to do an entire full tank it would be close to $90.00 to fill... haha And still no where near as bad as Europe.

Pulling into Van and hitting their new fancy bridge.



The old one is still being dismantled off to the left.





here is where the road trip out stops. 1300km or so completed so far! Was a great drive and loved the car. The KW V1's did a great job through the mountains and twisties!

[Ponto]

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Well the other weekend I did a nice 2600km Road trip to visit the girlfriend who is going to school in Vancouver.

Started off Wednesday night, first stretch is straight and boring so didn't take many pictures. Stopped about an hour in to get some food before the remaining 7ish hours of driving.



Quickly got back on the road to some heavy downpour.



Which continued for about 2 and a half hours til I got just past Calgary. After that it cleared up real nice as I got into the mountains!

Sun was just setting when I pulled in to Canmore so I snapped a nice little picture.



Which also gave me some nice sunset shots along the highway too!!







(Nice thing about living up here is we get long sunsets in the summer!)



Also went through my favorite stretch of road.







Continued driving til about midnight or so when I got to my sisters in Vernon and crashed for the night! Next day spent the morning with her and my Niece and Nephews and did some mountain biking before continuing onto Vancouver!

More to come!

[Ponto]

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So after a 3rd wheel balancing i no longer have any vibration... Lesson? Go get road force balance done first time around...

[Ponto]

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Weird, I never had any of these issues with my WRG2s either. I ran them for 60,000km,m when I sold the car with them, there was still 5/16th tread left and had good grip.

It's not a Hakkapeliitta but it sure beats any all season tire.

Well they were already worn before I got them, so not brand new... That could have part to do with it as well. Regardless not a good experience and will sticking to my winters!

Installed the hub rings and rear coils got tweaked a bit at Dubsport today, no mo rubbing! Richard is awesome.

And more pictures are always good.

[witchcraftz]

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The traction was brutal. Compared to my last A3 with cheapo winters these didn't even come close to the same amount of grip. (not that I expected them too, just what the car came with)

The wear as well was bad, one tire was a little low when I got the car so not sure if that affected the wear, but my god were they noisy once the snow was gone.

All in all just reaffirms that i will always run dedicated winters. So will be replacing them this fall!

Weird, I never had any of these issues with my WRG2s either. I ran them for 60,000km,m when I sold the car with them, there was still 5/16th tread left and had good grip.

It's not a Hakkapeliitta but it sure beats any all season tire.

[Danaldson]

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See you shortly, buddy. Should be a pretty awesome weekend and a nice mini road trip to the mountains

Super stoked for Tommorow. Wheels look great dude!

[Spooling_turbos]

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See you shortly, buddy. Should be a pretty awesome weekend and a nice mini road trip to the mountains

[Ponto]

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All cleaned up


And ready for Calgary!

[Ponto]

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Were they the WR tyres or the all-season? Interesting that we had such different experiences. They were a stop-gap tire I bought when I first got the black coupe, being in college I had no money. Nowadays she gets nothing but the best

What's up next on your mod-list?

They got the WR stamped right on em! haha

Well once the bank account recovers from mexico and other stuff, next up will likely be exhaust and get my windows tinted... And if the year end bonus comes in big then euro tails, all the leds for interior, license plate lights and reverse lights.

Still on the list for eventually is

Rear sway bar
DSG Tune
Haldex Tune

Then I gotta decide whats next after that. Either when I do the chains I do cams. or I get that new base kit HPA has for the 5 grand... but A house will have to happen before that.

[PRY4SNO]

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Were they the WR tyres or the all-season? Interesting that we had such different experiences. They were a stop-gap tire I bought when I first got the black coupe, being in college I had no money. Nowadays she gets nothing but the best

What's up next on your mod-list?

[Ponto]

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I loved the WRG2 tyres when I had a set. They worked good for two winters, and I got almost 60k km of hard driving out of them... what didn't you like?

Wheels look good, btw.

The traction was brutal. Compared to my last A3 with cheapo winters these didn't even come close to the same amount of grip. (not that I expected them too, just what the car came with)

The wear as well was bad, one tire was a little low when I got the car so not sure if that affected the wear, but my god were they noisy once the snow was gone.

All in all just reaffirms that i will always run dedicated winters. So will be replacing them this fall!

[PRY4SNO]

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I loved the WRG2 tyres when I had a set. They worked good for two winters, and I got almost 60k km of hard driving out of them... what didn't you like?

Wheels look good, btw.

[Ponto]

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Well already posted in the what did you do thread, but regardless!


Tires showed up yesterday, dropped them off with Ed the tire guy.



Gotta love the sportback for all the room for activities!!

60 bucks later they were done and I picked them up after work.



Then a long painful drive through construction and rush hour to get to my buddies condo and start the swap!



Bit of a pizza and beer break and we were done!



Pretty happy with the Falken tires, so much quieter than the shitty winter rated no season nokians I had on there, honestly such a terrible tire haha.

Fitment is pretty dang decent, rears rub a tiny bit - last picture i had two winters loaded up so squatting a bit. Still think the rear will have to come up a hair just to give in an even amount of wheel gap all the way around. That and remove the one fender screw and tab at the very back which is the culprit of my rubbing!

That's all for now. Once the bank account has replenished itself more goodies will have to get ordered so stay tuned!