Originally Posted By: edyvw
Originally Posted By: c502cid
Originally Posted By: edyvw
Originally Posted By: c502cid
I have dedicated studded winter tires and wheels on every vehicle I own. My ideas on tires are different then yours obviously, and I don't view yours as wrong. I dont care about playing ricky racer in the winter, I want the safest tires for my wifes car, my kids cars, and myself when it is snowing. Thats my performance criteria. And with studded snows, I have that plus some. No I cant go canyon carving, yes they are loud, and the performance of them in the dry is safe, is stable, and I sleep very well at night. Even with the sunny Colorado winters I still want them because when you see the racers being towed up from the ditch on the side of the road I know my wife will make it home on unplowed drifted up country roads.
I get it, but not sure that advantages of studded tires outweigh safety drawback of same tires in areas like CO with a lot of dry days.
Safety drawbacks? Seriously? Have you ever used a dedicated winter studded tire for transportation and not driven it like a dedicated performance tire? Two different uses and in my usage there are no safety drawbacks. Not one person in my household is trying to hit an apex in any season.
SO what is your average speed on studded tires on interstate? I think 50mph on studded tires and 50mph on regular winter tires is still 50mph.
However braking distance is not same.
I do not want to drive the way studded tires have to be driven. If I wanted to drive like that I would buy Toyota Camry, not BMW.
But then, if I needed studded tires to go to work, ski, I would just hang my DL.
Ahhh, my reference to ricky racer in the ditch......