Kenneth Waller
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sessoms" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Snow event
From: AlunFoto
2010/1/6 Cotty <[email protected]>:
> On 6/1/10, AlunFoto, discombobulated, unleashed:
>>Make sure you have good tyres, mate. Drive save.
> BF Goodrich All Terrain T/A
>
> <http://www.tyre-pictures.com/BFGoodrich/AllTerrainTAKO.jpg>
>
> best in the business :-)
I trust you to select well. Much better than I would anyway... :-) I
just have this little pet anxiety over groove depth and tyre
performance. That's what's in "good" for me...
Over here, by the way, we are having a peculiar case with all-weather
tyres and non-studded winter tyres. The studded tyres are frowned upon
because they erode the tarmac, creating a dust and pollution problem.
So if you want to use them you have to pay extra fees (?100 per
season). The result is that most people have converted to non-studded
tyres. However, where studs roughens the ice, the non-studded ones
will polish it. And currently we see an increase in accidents caused
by people losing the road grip.
What about chains? Put 'em on when you need to drive in snow and take 'em
off again once the roads are plowed well enough.
I've used chains, many, many moons ago and while they will most likely will
give you the needed traction they're a real pain to install and if you
eventually run on snowless roads you can ruin the chains quickly, so they
must come off.
I used them on a 61 Corvair - there wasn't any place it wouldn't go until
enough snow compacted under the floorpan in which case you were left with
the wheels being unloaded and lost traction.
We don't get enough snow around here in the winter to really justify
anything beyond maybe non-studded "snow" tires - actually, around here
they're called MUD & Snow tires.
So, I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do, I just wonder if they're a
practical alternative; give traction when you need it, but removable so
they don't tear up the road when they're not needed.
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