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Thread: Snow Tire help
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08-31-2023, 08:50 PM #151
I live in snow country. I get new studded snows every 2 or 3 seasons at most. At 50%+ remaining, I sell them for cheap and make back about 20-30% of the new set.
For me, the best snows are new. Often not the most expensive.
Fwd Vw TDI Wagen.
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08-31-2023, 08:52 PM #152
Ahh. Sorry, I know I’ve seen about your wife having Alzheimer’s before but completely forgot. I can see how that adds a whole new level of worry.
I still wouldn’t personally be concerned with a tire rotating the wrong way temporarily. Can’t really give any firm advice on the tire wear/circumference issue. My guess is finishing a drive with a tire different wouldn’t be an issue, but I’m not certain, and it could vary by vehicle.
If you go with five new tires then circumference is not an issue as long as you rotate the fifth in, but then that does mean dismounting and remounting a tire each year to keep things rolling the right way - not the end of the world, but a bit of a pain.
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08-31-2023, 08:56 PM #153
Studded aren’t allowed everywhere - like Ontario and Quebec, I believe (though I haven’t lived there in a while).
But yeah, tread depth has a noticeable impact on performance.
ETA: I -think- a budget studded tire is going to be better able to compete with a premium studded, versus the non-studdeds (would have to go back and look at tests). Non-studded tires are going to need to rely on the tread compound to balance ice/wet/dry grip, whereas the studded can rely on studs for ice grip and focus more on balancing wet/dry with the compound.
Premium tires will use more advanced rubber compounds to achieve less compromise when doing that ice/wet/dry balance vs. the budget non-studded.
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08-31-2023, 09:10 PM #154
studs are allowed in quebec and some of my neighbors like to leave them on all summer, just in case.
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08-31-2023, 09:33 PM #155
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09-01-2023, 10:13 AM #156
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09-01-2023, 12:26 PM #157
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09-03-2023, 01:13 AM #158Registered User
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I might be biased as I'm Finnish, but a vote for Nokian studded tires.
Starting the fourth winter with Hakkapeliitta C3 on my rwd Sprinter. The van came with some new chinese studded tires, and they were finished after one winter. Changed to the C3's mid-winter and the difference was astonishing. I think they are due replacing after this winter or mid-winter, after maybe 60-70k kilometers. Looks like the current model is C4, not sure about the differences.
It's much more demanding in Norway (wet, warm, ice, steep roads, a lot more snow) than Lapland (dry, extremely cold ice and mellow roads). Here they don't even try to keep the asfalt visible, they just manage and even out the layer of ice that accumulates during the winter from october to may.
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