winter tires

[Mark R]

Nokians have fairly stiff sidewalls.  They USED to have fairly soft
sidewalls compared to the competition, but that was YEARS ago.  With all
manufacturers, tread design, siping, sidewall construction and especially
compounds have evolved quite substantially.  A snow tire (from ANY
manufacturer) are completely different today (in all aspects) than 10 years
ago.

Mark Rosenkrantz


On 10/5/06, Tihol Tiholov <t.tiholov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's nice to know whether you like to have long--lasting tires or best
> traction with more frequent tire purchase.
>
> What kept me away from Nokian in the past is their soft sidewalls.  A tire
> shop owner explained that soft sidewall provides more traction by allowing
> the tread to flex over frozen longitudinal ice strips on the road.  I buy
> that but still ... being a rally fan has to do with it.
> Now I have a set of Hankook and a set of Cooper, happy with both.  Cooper
> seems to be the best combination I've seen of snow and ice traction with
> siped and open tread, good price, too.
>
> Longest lasting were Yokohama Gardex 600 I had on the Typ 89 since 1998
> with
> 1 flat only.  Almost got tired of them ;o))  Last spring my wife drove
> through a bad pothole and both right-side tires developed bulges in the
> sidewall, still remained drivable - very important as she was far from
> civilization.  The tire shop gave me pro-rated warranty even after all
> that
> time.
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