Test of snow tires vs all season-video from Road and Track
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If all you're doing is driving around town then all-seasons will usually get you by, but good winter snow tires are a lot better.
You can watch this right after it snows and people hook up their snow machine trailers to their trucks and head out of town for the weekend. They get out there, find a place to jump their truck over the snow burm and unload the machines. When they come back, and maybe the snowplow has come along, a lot of them are then stuck because their all-season can't get enough traction in the deeper snow. The guys with good snow tires wind up pulling them out.
Look at it this way, how do your all-season sandles work in the winter or your all-season wool scarf work in the summer?
I went south from Alaska in May and ran into a snow storm in northern Canada that had dumped about 6" of snow. The locals and the Alaskans going south with their winter tires didn't have any problems. It was easy to tell which people were running all-season tires.
Bill
You can watch this right after it snows and people hook up their snow machine trailers to their trucks and head out of town for the weekend. They get out there, find a place to jump their truck over the snow burm and unload the machines. When they come back, and maybe the snowplow has come along, a lot of them are then stuck because their all-season can't get enough traction in the deeper snow. The guys with good snow tires wind up pulling them out.
Look at it this way, how do your all-season sandles work in the winter or your all-season wool scarf work in the summer?
I went south from Alaska in May and ran into a snow storm in northern Canada that had dumped about 6" of snow. The locals and the Alaskans going south with their winter tires didn't have any problems. It was easy to tell which people were running all-season tires.
Bill
