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10-29-2010, 09:30 PM
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| MODERATOR™   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ohio
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Got any experience with snow tires on your car? Like the Blizzaks for instance. Share please. Thank you.  |
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10-29-2010, 09:41 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbia Gorge
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Blizzaks work really well and are priced right.... We have a lot of them in stock right now too, but nothing for a silly Honda though.
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10-29-2010, 09:57 PM
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10-29-2010, 11:30 PM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Grand Jct.
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Used to manage a Tire Shop and the Blizzaks were the best with Hankook following behind.
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10-30-2010, 07:49 AM
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| Quarry Creeper  Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Duluth
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Back when I acually had a car (20 years ago) these were the best snow tires I could find. Nokian Hakkapeliitta
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10-30-2010, 07:55 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Knee deep in a creek with a fish on the line
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My wife drives a honda element awd with cooper studded snow tires. the thing is solid as a rock on packed snow and ice.
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10-30-2010, 07:56 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Beloit,ohio
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| Blizz are the ticket. Multi-cell compound, keeps them soft in the cold weather,lots of siping,lots of biting edges!,and imo the tire to get for crappy weather. Just make sure to pull them off come spring time. Or they will wear out really quick! |
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10-30-2010, 08:23 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: *
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I put Blizzak WS-65's on my car a few winters ago, I don't regret it for a second. On wet roads they tend to sing a lot under acceleration, it sounds like you have a Pratt and Whitney JT8D under the hood.  Bridgestone superseded the WS-65's by the WS-70's, if I was looking, I'd start there.  |
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10-30-2010, 08:37 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NE Ohio
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I ended up getting Michelin X-ice back when I had my caddy, so that is what I went with when I got the tires for my G8 this year. seemed to do quite well if I remember correctly, and Tire Rack had them rated a little better in the deep stuff if I remember correctly. that reminds me, I'm gonna need to put them on soon... |
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10-30-2010, 10:16 AM
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10-30-2010, 11:20 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Moncton, NB, Canada
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We had Goodyear Icetrac's on our old beater Grand Am that worked pretty well. On the new truck my dad got it has Firestone Winterforce's, 1st time we ever had them so dunno how well they'll do.
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10-30-2010, 11:29 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit
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Blizzaks are easily the worst at wear and multi season use. They use a weird surface compound to work above average for the first season after that you might as well be running standard all seasons and praying. Hankook i-pikes are cheap and have deep grooves. Long life and use tread/sipes to actually work for multiple seasons. In deeper snow they can clog a bit but clean out rather well in a short distance. If anyone knew winter tires they'd tell there is only 1 best but they are both hard to find here in the US and even more hard on the wallet. Those would be Nokian Hakkapeliitta R or RSi. |
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10-30-2010, 11:34 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Wheeling
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I run Firestone Winterforce's on my rwd Magnum as soon as the first flurry hits, and my fiancee's Aztek runs them year round. very low wear, priced well ( we got ours for under $87 each) and I was surprised at how well the car carved thru the snow. I am sure that she will have no problem being awd so it should go like stink as well. Bring on the snow!  |
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10-30-2010, 11:45 AM
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10-30-2010, 05:31 PM
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I've run the Firestone Winterforce on several different cars, last winter was a Crown Victoria with 150lbs of wieght in the front of the trunk. Drove like ah tank in 6 inches of snow. I think they wear good for a snow tire, great traction and are cheaper than most any tire. Not to mention they are easy to get ahold of.
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10-30-2010, 06:39 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: sittin in the sky
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go for the Firestone winterforces! ive seen them do great! on a side note, mud grapplers they are the worst tires ive ever seen in the snow! i was drifting through nighboor hoods and almost slid off a road into a creek going 25 but if its dirt not pavement and gravel under the snow they do alright |
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10-30-2010, 09:02 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit
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Again, easily the best non-studded tires available. | |
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10-30-2010, 09:08 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NE Ohio
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10-30-2010, 09:15 PM
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10-30-2010, 09:17 PM
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I have them on my truck and hate them...
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