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Originally Posted by T@T
True snow tires are great in heavy wet snow in Ontario or the Maritimes but on the cold ice in Alberta they are a waste of money IMO. People like to say snow tires are made from "softer rubber" so they grip better but my opinion is no rubber is much softer in -25 and the more ribbed rubber on the ice the better.
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All I know is I couldn't get anywhere in my acura el with all seasons (just bought 3 months ago) on the first day of the snowfall. Once I bought snow tires the second day, I was in heaven. It was a world I never knew.
I keep hearing all this stuff about how they're not useful in really cold whether and how they do nothing on black ice etc. I've been testing these babies out, and I seriously can do no wrong with them, I feel like I'm driving a large truck with those balls dangling off the back trailer hitch. I can go my usual 120-130 on deerfoot, I can stop on a dime anywhere, I can drive through any thinkness of snow built up on less traveled streets. In fact just the other day I powered through all the large piles of snow on my street that everyone had created from days of shovelling, just because I felt
that powerful and awesome in my little rice rocket.
Winter tires are a gift from god, make no mistake.