> Second, unless you are going to be driving on hard ice a lot, YOU DON'T > NEED STUDS!! You lose traction on dry pavement, even asphalt, with > studs, and they tear up the highway surface something fierce (come drive > the freeways in western Washington if you don't believe me). Studs are > an advantage on ice only, no help at all in the snow. Perceived help in > the snow is because studs are normally installed on very aggressive snow > treads, the help is from the snow tires, not the studs. While driving in Norway I had aggressive snow tires and still had problems on compacted snow (read that as ice, but not glare ice) and got the same tires with plastic studs which helped a lot. I lived outside of Oslo at the top of a long curvy hill and when the sun melted the snow in the (short) day, it refroze before I got home. I could never make it up the damn hill - had to go a LOOOONG way around. After I got the studs I could make it easily! Ron |
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