[s-cars] Quick Tyre Fitment Question

[Lee Levitt]

I've driven Audis with good snow tires and bad snow tires, and I 
have to tell you, there is a world of difference.

My S6 came with a set of Kumho all season tires, in a 225/50 size. 
They were awful.

I run Toyo all season tires on my C5 and on my wife's A6 for 
summer tires, and switch to narrower Nokians (205s on her car, 
215s on mine), and the difference is night and day.

If you don't put narrow top quality snow tires on your Audi in 
winter...if you live in snow country...you're cheating yourself 
from a great experience.

And I absolutely believe in giving up some dry handling in the 
winter for that extra margin of safety in bad weather. I've lived 
through a couple of scary driving situations where I wanted, but 
didn't have, that extra margin. I never want to go there again.

But that's my approach. Others go wider for more of a balance 
between wet and dry capability.

Lee



On Mon Dec 25 20:22:43 PST 2006, Theodore Chen 
<tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:

> i have to agree.  these audis are terrific in the snow.