[s-cars] Snow tire shopping, blizzak vs Nokian vs? thoughts?

[LL - NY]

I know, however Nokian suggests that if you are going studless RSi's will
outperform Hakka's. So, I figured Nokian knows their own products.

I am currently running WR-G2's (as our regions transition period is simply
too long to safely run summers into November) and IMHO, they aren't quite as
stable in the wetter sticky (not slushy, that is where the G2's are supposed
to excel compared to the old WR's) stuff vs. my RSi's, which I felt were
nearly foolproof. Didn't feel the need of the squishyness of Hakka's + studs
over the performance of the RSi's in deep stuff. Next time around I'm going
back for RSi's.

LL - NY

On 11/16/08, JC <jc at j2c3.com> wrote:
>
> Larry - Nothing inherently studded about the Hakkas - I've had a number of
> non-studded sets (as well as a studded sets when I lived in the mtns).
>
> Haven't tried the newer WR-G2 and Hakka Rsi, but if I have to buy snows
> it'll probably be the WR-G2 since it's essentially the WR with
> Blizzak-style
> silica compound and some other fancy stuff.


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