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Daox · 10-14-2009, 02:02 PM

Welcome to the site ncracker.

Your statement sounds a bit off the deep end. You are talking about a ~25% decrease in FE from wet roads. I find that pretty hard to believe. Maybe from the crappy traffic, but not from the road being wet.

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