What you need to know about winter tires

What you need to know about winter tires

Although forecasters have promised warming, winter is still close to Buryatia leaps and bounds, and nowhere on it does not go.

And with the cold weather will come to us and the snow and ice. Therefore, the drivers still did not change summer tires for winter, we recommend you to hurry up

Unloved "vsesezonka"

Especially economical and overly thrifty car owners believe that by acquiring all-season tires, they win. However, no wonder they say that the avaricious pays twice - benefit from such a condition is only in price.

After all, in their physical properties, and a drawing winter tires are very different from summer. In this connection, in different weather conditions are the same tires will characterize itself completely differently. In the so-called "vsesezonke" developers have tried to reconcile the irreconcilable: the properties of summer and winter tires.

When driving on winter tires in the summer is almost no effect on the level of road safety in general, in the harsh Siberian winter summer tires simply unacceptable.

The thing is the picture

Winter tires differ by type of tread pattern. Tires with different types of drawing are intended for different winter roads. Conventionally, sample drawings can be divided into two types: European and Scandinavian.

European style pattern resembles the rain year. Here are the place to be and the diagonal construction with a developed network of drainage channels and a large number of blades, and powerful lugs on the periphery of the tread. All tires with similar tread pattern is almost perfectly behaved on the road with a wet, muddy snow.

They should operate at relatively high temperatures of the winter air on those roads that are regularly and well cleaned. As an example, the tire marks GoodYear-Medeo, Pirelli SnowSport, Barum Polaris.

From the rubber produced in Russia to a European type of the closest tire marks "Snow Queen" and the Moscow Tyre Plant "Krasny Yar" production
Krasnoyarsk.

Scandinavian pattern tire is characterized by a large number of diamond-shaped or rectangular "pieces" placed in a checkerboard pattern. These tires provide the best grip on snowy or icy road.

Also, rubber Scandinavian type is good in deep snow. The most common representatives - Nokian Hakkapellitta-4, Briqestone BM-Z2, Norman tire production plants Amtel and Nokian, as well as tire "Snowstorm", produced in Kirov.

Spikes

In the meteorological conditions are not similar to the European, it makes sense to spike or buy ready-made studded tires. In the selection of tires, or when using services shinomontazhnyh workshops sure to pay attention to the quality studdable.

Typically, studded tires, "lives" at least two or three seasons, but not more than four. However, in our region, the use of studded tires causes drivers contradictions and disputes: one half of motorists believe that spikes reduce stopping distance car and thereby reduce the risk of passing the collision and zooming, opponents also argue that winter in Buryatia little snow, sleet is by and large spring and autumn, and winter is the asphalt completely clean and dry, so splurge on the studding is not necessary.

To which opinion to listen and whose side to take - a rather complicated question. Therefore, if you think whether to buy studded tires, we suggest you use the table and considered it important for you the pros and, based on their number, to decide in favor of studded tires or buy tires without studs.