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

[Jeff LaBombard]

I switched from Blizzaks to Nokians about 10 years ago.  I live in the
MTNS, we get between 250-350 inches every winter, so I am always driving
in the snow.

After 3 sets of Hakka 2 and 4 studded, I bought WR's for the URS6A a
couple months back.   225/50 V rated and I am going to try to keep them on
all winter.

The WRs have been good in the rain, dry and have a better turn in than the
Hakkas (expected as my Hakkas were 215's).

On the mud they are also good, grip is not as good as the Hakkas, but that
was expected. We have had three small storms under 6 inches and the tires
were fine.

The question I asked myself: do I want an overkill snowtire all the time? 
Or one that will do everything good?

The Hakkas studded are such a great snow tire and with Quattro almost
overkill.  I decided to go with the WR's as I am on the highway in the dry
50% of the time.

We will see if they handle the other 50% of the time I am in the deep
stuff.  I may end up switching my tires three times this year if I don't
like them (summer, mid winter and deep winter).


Jeff




> Although the WR's might be referred to as "All Season", they do have the
> "Snowflake" grading, implying their use in more severe conditions than
> what
> we consider US "All Season" tires applicable for.  I used my WRs on both
> the
> S6 and now on the S4 in southern NY state.
>
> Mike Bess
> Ex  '95 S6
> Current '04 S4
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Taka Mizutani
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:51 PM
> To: LL - NY
> Cc: Scar
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Snow tire shopping, blizzak vs Nokian vs? thoughts?
>
> Larry-
> All Nokian snow tires are Hakkapellitas. The WR are considered an
> all-season
> and thus are not named that way. However, the 1, 2, 4, etc. as well as the
> RSI are Hakkapellitas.
>
> Taka
>
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:19 PM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
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