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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
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 |
While most of my driving is in Calgary, there is always the trips out to the mountains or highway driving. Not only that, but you get the idiots who don't know how to take off from a stop at an intersection and end up creating icy patches all over the place. Not sure if studs offer and advantage in those conditions. I did almost have a coronary when coming to a stop at one of those and kept sliding, almost into the intersection.