Snow tires

[Lawrence C Leung]

Where'd you get the Snows for that price? Do they mail order? (tight
budget this year at the wrong time....but when is there a good time?)

LL - NY

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:40:15 -0700 (PDT) Todd Phenneger
<tquattroguy at yahoo.com> writes:
>What has changed on the Gislaved from the Nordfrost II's to the
>Frost's???   I just picked up an almost new set of Nordfrost
>II's and am wondering how they would compare in this comparo. 
>Does anyone have any tests between these and the old studded
>Hakka 10's laying around from a few years ago?
>  I a Nokian fan all the way but couldn't pass up 4 almost new
>Nordfrost's mounted and balanced for $170USD including Tax.
>Thanks
>  Todd
>
>--- Jukka Majanen <jiipm at sci.fi> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>
>
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