No matter how useful aid wheel-drive, he simply can not compare with the normal set of winter tires.
Following the adoption of front-wheel drive as standard trend ritual installation of winter tires virtually disappeared from the lives of most Americans. In many northern regions, people just choose their all-wheel drive, bearing in mind that in their area are, and snow drifts. But no matter how useful aid wheel-drive, it again is simply unable to compete with the normal set of winter tires, and here's why.
Whatever anyone says, the contact with the road is ensured by four circles, and made of rubber, "dressed" on wheels, and if they are not able to keep this same contact, the number of axles is totally unimportant. For us, it became completely clear after a weekend spent at the test-drive the new Subaru Legacy 2010.
As you know, Legacy - a cozy, roomy midsize sedan with wonderful visibility, and it has prepared no less than Subaru wonderful symmetrical all-wheel drive. Unfortunately, his all-season tires is clearly not enough traction.
On dry pavement wheel drive can rightly be considered a great boon because it allows you to distribute work to ensure traction and to allow the front wheels take control. If, however, under the bottom will be snow, it also helps to cling to the surface and move on.
However, many cars have such a torque, the tires simply can not handle it correctly. This means that very simply could be that compel slip all four wheels, at least, before you wake up the traction control.
And since so many like to take sharp turns in the drift, will always have to make sure that the car still remained in some definite boundaries to the case of sliding. Lack of cohesion - it is generally a fundamental problem with all season tires and four-wheel drive will not help you overcome the twist on the icy road, or stop dead in front of a sign Stop.
Without the clutch at Subaru are ongoing problems with rotations, and it was pretty easy to go into a skid before it enters a system for ensuring sustainability.
The only solution is to install tires that maximize traction in such conditions. All major tire manufacturers make winter tires, and we highly recommend them to all who live in regions affected by snowfalls and low temperatures, and, no matter how many driving wheels of their cars.
The easiest way - is to buy an extra set of disks and install them on a normal winter tires and summer tires put in the garage to put back in the summer. This is money spent wisely, and so obviously cheaper than a car body repair or insurance payments.
