high performance street tires?

[David Kase]

Agreed.  But there is now the Severe Service Emblem and Nokian has a 
great, true all-season tire - the WR.  I runthem on the family Odyssey 
all year and they are great in the snow.  I wouldn't put my wife and 
kids on themif they weren't.

David Kase
Engineering Manager
www.pdqlocks.com



thejimrose wrote:

> hey all just following this thread and have noted people talking about 
> which high-perf summer tires are ok in the snow.
>
> ?!?! warning!! danger!!
>
> i don't care how m+s rated a tire is, barring an emergency and you're 
> caught w/ your pants down [or your summer tires on] you should [in my 
> imperialist opinion of course] be running a dedicated snow tire for 
> any kind of regular snow travel. i don't care if you have 8 wheel 
> drive, if all 8 of those wheels are wrapped in baloneyskin summer 
> tires you might as well put skii's on the car.
>
> the difference in grip, braking, cornering, etc in snow or icy, slushy 
> roads with a dedicated snow tire is really remarkable. think spider 
> man rolled in glue and wrapped with velcro. at this point you can 
> score a set of 15" wheels and tires for so cheap it's not worth 
> messing around.
>
> here's my girl doin' it right:
> http://new.photos.yahoo.com/thejimrose/album/576460762336999432/photo/294928803526759921/2 
> <http://new.photos.yahoo.com/thejimrose/album/576460762336999432/photo/294928803526759921/2>
>
> later!
> jim
> 10+ years driving snowtire shod audi's in the snow.