[s-cars] Green Diamond tires

[David Cahill]

It's a remolded tire, not a retread. There's no glue involved. The new
rubber and carbide granules are molded onto an old casing. I have run these
tires since 2005.

Some thoughts:
- Yes, they're hard to balance. But they did balance.
- Yes, it's a partial snow tread with a rain groove (like the old Nokian
WR), hence the "all-season" moniker.
- They are a GREAT ice and slush tire, and a so/so deep snow tire. Dry
handling is surprisingly good.
- They last much longer than a typical "snow tire" because a relatively hard
tread compound is used (and theoretically the carbide granules compensate
for this).
- I would not run them in the summer. At 40+ mph, your car will sound like
an old DC-9 jet on its takeoff roll.


Just my $.02 from ~20k mi of winter driving on Green Diamonds.

Dave

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:05 PM, JC <jc at j2c3.com> wrote:

> Well that explains the hard-to-balance / lose-balance issue.
>
> And if your retread starts to randomly go significantly out of balance,
> pull
> over because you've got a good chance things are separating inside...
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of
> > dgraber460 at aol.com
> > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 6:31 AM
> > To: t44tqtro at gmail.com; andrew.sb at gmail.com
> > Cc: S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Green Diamond tires
> >
> >
> > Green Diamonds are _retread_ snows.
> > Put your money down and slowly back away.
> >
> >
> > Dennis Graber
> > 720-838-0558
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
> > To: Andrew B <andrew.sb at gmail.com>
> > Cc: S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> > Sent: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 1:34 pm
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Green Diamond tires
> >
> >
> > I think 89 load rating for an UrS is too low.
> > Double check, but I think you want to be around 92-94.
> > Taka
> >
> > n Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Andrew B <andrew.sb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Anybody with experience on Green Diamond Icelanders?  Have an
> >  opportunity to pick some up at a dealer near the in-laws.  I've heard
> >  good things, but I've also heard that 1) they're more all season than
> >  dedicated snow, 2) they balance poorly, and more importantly, I'm
> >  worried about the load rating, which is somewhere around 89,
> > and might
> >  be too soft for our cars.
> >
> >  Any BTDTs, or other input?  Finding info on these is a challenge to
> >  say the least.
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >  -Andrew
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