Hi All!
Just got new Continental WinterContact 4x4 installed today. This is the first time I am going with a dedicated winter tire on the ML. Until now I have had the Dunlop Grandtek OEM's. Since we are planning on going up to Finnland over the holidays, I wanted to make sure we had good equipment to handle the conditions in Lapland.
So of course as part of the tire inaugeration today, I had to break heavily in traffic and was promptly rear-ended by a small Renault. Needless to say, the ML won. I have the standard OEM Hitch, and it seems to provide moderate protection in the case of light collisions. Although his entire front section, license plate, bumber and cooler grill were smashed into pieces, I could only see a very small scratch on my bumper.
I don't know what the damage would have been if I had not had the hitch, but it would have for sure been more to me, and less to him.
Needless to say, the Conti's have great grip in cold weather wet streets!
Just got new Continental WinterContact 4x4 installed today. This is the first time I am going with a dedicated winter tire on the ML. Until now I have had the Dunlop Grandtek OEM's. Since we are planning on going up to Finnland over the holidays, I wanted to make sure we had good equipment to handle the conditions in Lapland.
So of course as part of the tire inaugeration today, I had to break heavily in traffic and was promptly rear-ended by a small Renault. Needless to say, the ML won. I have the standard OEM Hitch, and it seems to provide moderate protection in the case of light collisions. Although his entire front section, license plate, bumber and cooler grill were smashed into pieces, I could only see a very small scratch on my bumper.
I don't know what the damage would have been if I had not had the hitch, but it would have for sure been more to me, and less to him.
Needless to say, the Conti's have great grip in cold weather wet streets!