The choice of winter tires for cars is quite extensive, but each time the same questions arise: which winter tires will allow the car to move as confidently as possible? Survived or not? Wider or more? We will understand.
Some motorists believe that you can not switch to winter shoes for a car and get by with off -season tires. Like, they are off -season — suitable for both winter and summer. It is fundamentally wrong. In winter, the machine should be “shod” into winter tires, another question is in which exactly?
When choosing them, you need to build on, first of all, from weather conditions that prevail in this region. Tires that are ideal for northern frosts can not quite adequately behave on the roads of the southern region, where the thermometer all winter shows the zero temperature all winter, and on the roads there is not a layer of hunched snow, but rather snow puddles.
Regarding the spikes on the treads, there are also long -standing disputes — whether they are needed on winter tires? After all, driving «on the spikes», by logic, should be safer. But not everything is so unambiguous. The level of coefficient of clutch of wheels with the road depends not only on the presence or absence of spikes, but also on the chemical composition of the rubber, as well as on the direction of the tread pattern. Employees of branded stores, in which wholesale of tires and discs is carried out, are well aware of this and always draw the attention of their buyers to these aspects.
The choice of perfect tires
Shipped winter tires will be very useful in an ice conditions or for driving along tightly torn snow. The spikes applied to the tread will provide good clutch with the road, which means they will reduce the braking distance, reduce the possibility of drifts and slipping.
When moving in deep snow, the presence of spikes is not so much as the direction of the drawing on the tread. And, if wet snow lies on the road and such slush is most characteristic of your region, then there will be no sense from the spikes at all.
Firstly, they reduce the contact of the wheel with the roadbed, which will inevitably affect the quality of the control of the car, and secondly, when accelerating or braking on wet asphalt, they will turn out to be not effective. For such weather conditions, tires with a directed tread pattern and without spikes are ideal.
New winter tires for the first two to three hundred kilometers should be “run in”-as if accustomed to the road. It is recommended to go carefully, without making a sharp start or stop. You need to go into turns smoothly, be sure to reduce the speed. It depends on how much winter tires will last you and how for a long time they will retain their initial properties.