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Originally Posted by Wormius
Does every tire shop do studding on new tires? Is it bad for any reason to drive with studded tires while there isn't any snow or ice on the roads?
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Personally I don't believe Calgary gets enough snow/ice to warrant studded tires. Generally the only advantage of studded over winter tires is over ice from a stop as in snow there's no difference and in fact regular winter tires have shown to perform better in cornering over snow or ice. Major drawbacks fir studded tires is that they are very loud and are hard on the pavement. Typically the roads in Calgary are bone dry well over 50% of the time in the winter so the majority of the time you are rolling on extremely noisy tires.
The video below shows just how far winter tire compounds have come as they perform better than studded tires when it comes to cornering;
http://www.tirerack.com/videos/index.jsp?video=7