A tire for all seasons? (Summer, all-season and winter tire comparison)
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A tire for all seasons? (Summer, all-season and winter tire comparison)
Tech Stuff: A tire for all seasons? : http://www.caranddriver.com/features...l-seasons.html
Found this article in Car and Driver. I think it should be helpful for those who are trying to decide if it's worth it to keep two sets of tires (summer/winter) instead of owning one set of all-seasons, or for those who think that they can make it through the winter with summer tires.
Here's a chart that pretty much summarizes the article:
Found this article in Car and Driver. I think it should be helpful for those who are trying to decide if it's worth it to keep two sets of tires (summer/winter) instead of owning one set of all-seasons, or for those who think that they can make it through the winter with summer tires.
Here's a chart that pretty much summarizes the article:
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Well it DOES prove that a summer (dry/rain) tire does best in the dry and rain. It also proves that a snow tire will do best in snow, and that all-seasons are somewhere in the middle.
Now that's just a comparison of 3 particular models. The Eagle RS-A isn't considered to be that great of an all-season tire, so I'm a little surprised it gets within 10% of the snow tire in stopping distance. In practice, there are many situations where the difference between the all-season and snow tire is very, very substantial.
I would have liked to see the F1s tested in the snow. That would have been very interesting.
Dave
Now that's just a comparison of 3 particular models. The Eagle RS-A isn't considered to be that great of an all-season tire, so I'm a little surprised it gets within 10% of the snow tire in stopping distance. In practice, there are many situations where the difference between the all-season and snow tire is very, very substantial.
I would have liked to see the F1s tested in the snow. That would have been very interesting.
Dave
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Well it DOES prove that a summer (dry/rain) tire does best in the dry and rain. It also proves that a snow tire will do best in snow, and that all-seasons are somewhere in the middle.
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