Snow Tire Recommendation

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Are Nokians that much more money?

Graspics are a multicell compound- they will get eaten
up on dry roads quickly.

Winterfires are mediocre tires- they do fine in deep snow,
but they are really horrible in the dry (poor braking,
poor cornering, very soft sidewalls).

I'd stick with Hakka Qs. Call up Greg Galinsky or Chris
Semple.

Taka

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Larry C Leung
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 9:42 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Snow Tire Recommendation


Hello List,

Not to start a big thread here, but I'm trying to help my mother
purchase a set of snows. Anyone have any experience with Dunlop Graspic
DS-1's or Firestone Winterfires? My mom is driving a 2002 VW Passat GLX
4 Motion and she is not usually in a situation where she MUST be
somewhere in the winter (she's retired). Her general winter situations
are light snow and freezing rain, so I'm looking for good ice
performance and packed snow rather than pure snow abilities.

However, being that I have not been impressed with
Michelin Artic Alpin snow performance on my late
Dad's Subaru, (they stopped okay with non ABS
brakes, and easily took off BUT, didn't turn worth
a damn on fresh snow and felt unstable in the fresh
stuff) I don't want to go that route.

You may be able to tell that I'm shopping TireRack,
(need snow rims) otherwise I'd actually just go get her
Kelly Pacemarks. She is NOT a performance driver,
and doesn't want to spend much, so don't even bother
with Nokians and other Hi Perf snows.

Thanks for any advice.

LL - NY