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Bridgeburner
Snow
Excelent info about snow tires posted by calamari above.
Just to add on a bit:
Siping is the most important feature of a good snow tire, in addition to a soft rubber compound. The siping has to be really dense, even the Nokian pictured above is not particularly densly siped. Most snow tires used around here are even more densely siped. And "open ended" siping is better, although durability suffers even more. Open ended siping means that the cut continues to the end of the block, letting the rubber flex better. Common for all the best snow tires is that they are not particularly good for other conditions than hard or wet snow. Particularly bad would be driving in high temperatures in high speeds, on dry paved roads. Dangerous for hard braking or cornering.
For new, loose, deep snow, mud tires or similar are better than finely siped typical winter-road tires. Or for the really deep stuff, huge floatation tires like the Icelandic Arctic Truck stuff might do.
Excelent info about snow tires posted by calamari above.
Just to add on a bit:
Siping is the most important feature of a good snow tire, in addition to a soft rubber compound. The siping has to be really dense, even the Nokian pictured above is not particularly densly siped. Most snow tires used around here are even more densely siped. And "open ended" siping is better, although durability suffers even more. Open ended siping means that the cut continues to the end of the block, letting the rubber flex better. Common for all the best snow tires is that they are not particularly good for other conditions than hard or wet snow. Particularly bad would be driving in high temperatures in high speeds, on dry paved roads. Dangerous for hard braking or cornering.
For new, loose, deep snow, mud tires or similar are better than finely siped typical winter-road tires. Or for the really deep stuff, huge floatation tires like the Icelandic Arctic Truck stuff might do.
