Snow tires

[Jukka Majanen]

Virtual Bob <hey9811 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>I recall someone posted result of snow tire comparison by some Nordic
>magazine. The Blizzaks did out-perform Hakka and Gislaved (and others) on
>ice, but poorly on every other conditions. The magazine rated Gislaved
>1st, Hakka second, and Blizzak somewhere after.


Hi!

One of the biggest ( TM/Auto,Motor und Sport/etc ) nordic snow tire comparisons 
for this year showed a little different results, as they allways do:

Test tire size     195/65-15

3 best ones with spikes:

                                    points        stars
Nokian Hakka 2          9.3                *****
Gislaved Frost             9.2               *****
Continental Viking1    8.6                ****

And for comparison: 2 yr old Hakka 1 which
had lost 10% of its thread: 6.0 and no stars.

3 best ones w/o spikes

Nokian Hakka Q            8.1                ***
Michelin Maxi-Ice           8.0                ***
Pirelli Winter Ice+          7.9                ***

In this class Blizzak was the last one w/o stars and
was mentioned  " bad on ice ". Maybe the time has ran
out of Blizzak?

Regards
j-pm    ´91 cq