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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It’s obviously better to have winter tires than all-weather. But from some of the comments in this thread, you’d think they were magical. They make an appreciable difference in traction, but it’s not night and day - lots of people slipping and sliding around in this weather have winter tires on. Traction is going to be bad in the deep, slushy snow we’ve seen this week no matter what kind of tires you have.
As for people not having them on yet, in mid-October the backlog for appointments was 4-5 weeks. More and more Calgarians are using winter tires, which means installation wait times are getting longer.
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My wife disagrees and she barely knows anything about cars, let alone tires. She said our new winters were magical and amazing and far more stable than the previous set of winters. To her, it's more than just appreciable. It's absolutely night and day.
No one who knows their vehicles well are saying they're magical. Just that they know for a fact they can look at inclement weather like today with impunity. Some people's fear have them driving like ass on the road regardless of good or bad tires on their vehicle.
But perhaps studded tires is a slightly different argument than the wide range of performance in cheaper/expensive, older/newer and un-studded/studded winter tires.