Advice On Cars And The Like

[Ke1t]

Remember how I said this was the worst place on the internets (after 4Chan) to ask for advice.

 

Forget that for now.

 

I'm thinking about getting a set of winter/snow tyres for the Orthopedic Shoe of a motor I drive, and wonder if it's even worth bothering with. My car handles like a greased snake on ice when it snas, and the first thought was to buy another motor, probably a Cherokee or something similar. Had one of them before and those things are monsters in the sna. They just tear through two feet of sna like it was a warm, summer day. Headed back fae Ohio one year we were hit by a Lake Effect Blizzard, all these cars are veering off the road, stranding the occupants, and we're barrelling along 75 flipping them off and giving them wanker signs as our Cherokee ploughs through the sna like it wasnae there.

 

Anyway, sna tyres... do they give a better grip of the road in winter, or are they just a gimmicky sham designed to rope in the gullible?

 

Here's the motor I'm driving, a Chevy Traverse, if that makes any difference to the answer.

 

[zander]

Absolute swear by them.

 

Can't usually get up my hill in Winter and have to abandon the car at the bottom without them everyone else on the street too.

 

As for the shit about lower temperatures etc from October to March I don't know think that's just a gimmick.

 

But I've never been stuck in the 3 years iv had them.

[looksgoodinred]

i wouldn't go through winter without them. it very much depends what kind of driving you do though, whether you want snow or ice tires. Mostly highway or city driving? Icy roads or just snow-covered roads? Or likely to face a little bit of everything?

 

Ice tires are made from more flexible rubber compounds, so they provide better grip (and wear out more quickly if you're actually driving on just wet pavement, and not ice). Snow tires are harder, less flexible rubber, will last longer, but won't provide the same traction on ice.

 

i'd never drive through a winter again on all-season tires, having driven the last number of years on snow tires. the peace of mind driving (on average 60-100 km a day) through crappy weather conditions is more than worth the price to me of a set of winter tires and rims every few years.

[tightbreeks]

i don't know about the us of a, but a honda crv is no a bad motor to have in that sort of style.

[Monkey]

Don't have snow tyres myself but everyone I know who has put snow tyres on their cars now swear by them, not at them, by them, best decision they've ever made they keep telling me.

 

Also there is the fact that you aren't driving on your "normal tyres" for several months in the year which should also prolong their life.

[Guest milne_afc]

Never bothered with snow tyres in my life.

 

Never crashed either.