Help--Winter tire issues

[TUKIN18S]

BoomerD hit it on the nuts. You need to get a skinnier tire for winter. I have used Blizzaks and loved them. I could go anywhere even in my lowered MKIII Jetta. There were tons of people stuck in a Blockbuster parking lot last year. Here I was with a slammed Jetta pulled in, dropped my movie off, and pulled right back out. It was golden! I now roll on 16" steelies for the winter with Dunlop Alpines. They seem to be doing good so far. I didn't drive with them much last year after I bought my MKIV. We'll see this year. All in all I reccommend Blizzak WS-50's.

 

[desy]

Studs do not suck on anything but bare ice in fact they perform about the same as regular winter tires One
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For the lazy

A complete test series was performed in 2003 by the Finnish magazine Tekniikan Maailma comparing ten studded tires and seven studless winter tires from manufactures such as Goodyear, Uniroyal, Michelin, Nokian, Bridgestone, Continental, and Gislaved. Tests were conducted on smooth and rough ice, hard packed snow, slush, and wet pavement, and the results demonstrated the overwhelming performance supremacy of the studded tires, on ice and slush, while the results were more evenly matched on hard packed snow.
The only test where studless tires were consistently superior was 'noise on dry pavement'. These tests also illustrated the great strides made in winter tire design. The best tires were made in 2002, while the two tires rated lowest overall were one studded and one studless tire that were first introduced in 1996. The average values of the friction values on smooth ice of the 2002 studded and studless tires were 0.23 and 0.17 respectively, and a comparable value for an 'All Season' tire would be about 0.13.

 

[Murpheeee]

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