Hi folks ....
I wrote this for some 2 months ago in the European forum, when discussing tyres and tyre-tests ,but it seems to fit here to
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I always try to select the "oversteered" tyres from such tests, it seems that they are most fitted to use on 4wd cars (all mine anyway).
Regarding the width of the tyres, ok, there is a old rule that states that you should use narrow tyres in the winter, but, modern winter tyres are so optimized that this is no longer a must.
You can use, let's say 1-2 numbers narrower winter tyres today.
I now use "Continental Viking Stop" (studs) 205/55-16 on my SVX, and they seems to work ok.
I buy in average at least 4 new tyres every winter because we have winter 6-7 months a year, and I mostly have 3-4 cars!
Right now I have a Subaru Trendy (Justy) for my wife with "Nokian" (studs) 155/70-13 winter tyres as they seems to fit the Tredy good, And a Legacy Station w. "Gislaved NordFrost" (studs) 185/70/15 as they seem to cope with heavier cars better, this tyre is my personal favorite!
If I want to equip my XT-turbo (GL10?) with new tyres, and I wish to have a tyre that is fun (controlled slides and so on..) I would prefer the old version of "Kleber Kapnor" in size 165/70-15 with 300 studs.
But if I wanted a "safe" tyre, I would buy "Gislaved" .
Buy the way, Yesterday on my way to work (400km! single way) the road was clean and dry for about 150km, then it suddenly started to snow, and for a distance of about 100km there was 3dm (12 inches) of snow!! I almost get stucked when I turned in for lunch at a resturant..!
(I overshooted the turn for about 100m also...just sliding )
I was regretting that I did'nt swapped to winter tyres before I left home.
Hope that this would help you.
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And SHISVX
, wait a month I'll promise you that I'll post a picture that really shows some snow
Some 30km up north from where I live, the snowdeep is around 3 metres (9-20 feet) !!, in Jan-March
