Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
So my wife is getting new winter tires for her SUV. The question is, studded or non-studded. They're the UrbanX Federal Himalayas. My wife's concern whether they will accelerate the wear of the tires when driving on dry pavement, the other is the road noise. Are any of these significant enough to go nonstudded?
We have about a week before our install date, so has anybody run both studded and nonstudded? Is it worth the added cost and road noise?
We will be mainly driving around Calgary and the Rockies for skiing, etc.
|
We had a set of (unstudded) Federal Himalayas on our last car and they never fell short in our time with em. I'd pass on the studding myself. To me the jump between all seasons/winter tires is enough of a change that you don't need to jump up to another level at all.