I have a 2000 chevy blazer. I live in northern wisconsin and drive the back roads in winter. I need a all-season tire that will be the best even in snow. I have some Goodyear ones on it now, and they are terrible and only three years old.
Any suggestions for the best all season ones for snow driving? Any online resources that help you pick the right ones? I tried a search to no avail.
"Chris B" wrote in message news:Oy%Og.774$ snipped-for-privacy@news02.roc.ny...
Gee how about snow tires in the winter for snow? all season or all weather tires are like anything else designed to do 20 different things, like any other jack of all trades, they are master of none. Tires 3 years old with how many miles on them? They had 7/32" of tread new, maybe 9/32", so they are about half wore out now or better, meaning some where between 7/64" and 9/64" of tread left, less than a 1/4". A good mud and snow with self cleaning lugs is going to have somewhere between 15/32" and 19/32" , or better in tread depth. Trade off is because tread depth is so deep you get squirm and they don't handle as well on dry pavement at high speed, and because the tread compound is softer so it will flex better at lower temps, they don't last as long on hot pavement. Another upside to swapping, is if you use a different set of rims, like plain old steel ones , the road salt doesn't get to mess up your nice aluminum rims. Germany didn't mandate snow tires in the winter if you had all season, but if you had an accident in snow and didn't have chains as well, you could get a ticket. They also required that if you ran snow tires, you ran them on all four corners. thought it strange, till the first snow, truck and car sure steered better, and fronts didn't lock up as easy. Oh and I was born raised and learned to drive in the Adirondacks, and then spent 4 years driving in the mountains of Germany, so I do know a little bit about winter driving. I've also got a million or so miles behind the wheel of a big rig, no accidents and no time spent waiting for a tow truck to pull me out of a ditch or median in the winter time (or any other time for that matter).
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