Originally Posted By: glennc
Wouldn't you think that good quality street tires would be compounded to resist that?.......
And, yes they do - up to a point.
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..... No doubt the manufacturers know many summer tires will end up seeing cold weather during their lives.....
Yeah, but we are talking really, really cold - like -20F. And anyone out on high performance tires in that temperature ..... well, do we need to say more?
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.......Maybe it is a potential problem on cheap tires more so? And true racing tires, I imagine?....
Maybe. It's more a case of the type of rubber being used - and I'm not sure the cost is a factor. Rubber prices go up and down quite frequently and balancing rubber content is a very inexact process.
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......In Colorado if I wanted to avoid cold and snow altogether I'd only be able to use my summer tires three months out of the year. Maybe not even that.
Just to be clear. The issue of "cold weather" in this context means really cold weather. We don't experience that kind of weather in the US except in MN, and ND. (OK, AK, too!) Canada is much more an area where this is an issue and something to be concerned about.