Best All-Season on Snow?

[Greg Galinsky]

The Nokian NRW has all the sipes going to the full depth of 2/32"; the
minimum legal tread depth.  The Blizzak in some models only have 42% of its
sipes going  dowm 1mm.
With the sipes on the Nokian going to the minimum tread depth there is not
the falloff in function that is associated with the lose of edges and tread
blocks working independently.
Most people seem to get between 8 and 17k on the Blizzak; on the outer
multicell compound.  It then just changes to a firmer conventional rubber
and becomes an all season tire.   The NRW seem to get about 45k..

The Blizzaks are great if glare ice is a big concern of yours.  In snow
performance they are in the bottom 1/3 of  "snow tires" in snow conditions.
You wont see them advertised by Bridgestone as "snow tires" but rather as
"ice tires".

I've run ice trials and ice raced for 31 years.  I love great dedicated
winter tires.  Been partial to Nokian and have sold them since 1979.

Greg
90 80
90 80Q
90 90Q
88 80Q
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Reis" <mark at reisources.com>
To: "Lee M. Levitt" <lee at wheelman.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Best All-Season on Snow?


> Lee, have you tried both?  If not, would you please cite your source?
> I'm also in the process of deciding between these two.  Personally, I was
> blown away by the Blizzaks I had on my S4 a few years ago...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee M. Levitt" <lee at wheelman.com>
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 7:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Best All-Season on Snow?
>
>
> > "Michael L. Riebs" <michael at 1stchoicegranite.com> writes:
> >
> > >
> > > A few years ago I read somewhere that the Quattro system
> > > specifically, along with the Blizzak tires would give you the absolute
> > best performing winter
> > > vehicle anywhere on the planet - by a large margin!
> > >
> > > Definitely not intended for much pavement use, though. Way to soft a
> > > compound.
> > >
> >
> > That soft compound performs very well when the tires are new...such as
> > during a tire comparison...but once you've worn that first layer off,
> you've
> > got a standard all season tire that won't hold a candle to a Nokia NRW.
> >
> > Lee
> > '95.5 S6 avant (w/Nokia NRWs)
> > '96 A6 quattro avant (w/Nokia NRWs)
> >
>
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