all-season VS dedicated winter tires review

Old 05-04-2013, 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Madnesss
Nokian wr-g2... best all season tire without question. check them out...
Hope you have better luck with tire wear than I did ... I had them on my G37 ... didn't last me 2 winters (I had them as dedicated winters since there is so little snow where I live).

I had the Nokian WR on my '02 TL-S and I loved them. Maybe due to less torque and FWD ... it's a good pairing ... but RWD and tons of torque ... not good.



PS My wife's TSX I have a set of Bridgestone W60 ... more than 4 seasons and tons of tire tread left. I'm usually a Nokian or a Michelin guy ... but I'm really impressed at how long the Bridgestones have lasted (and I know the winter compound goes only 1/2 way ... then all-season compound afterwards ...)
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Bridgestone Blizzaks are the way to go for winter. All season tires I would go with Hankook or some good Bridgestones
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The new generation snow tire from Michelin : X-ice Xi3, has been getting really good reviews.

Bridgestone has not updated it's Blizzak snow tire product line for quite a few years already.
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Originally Posted by derrick
Hope you have better luck with tire wear than I did ... I had them on my G37 ... didn't last me 2 winters (I had them as dedicated winters since there is so little snow where I live).

I had the Nokian WR on my '02 TL-S and I loved them. Maybe due to less torque and FWD ... it's a good pairing ... but RWD and tons of torque ... not good.



PS My wife's TSX I have a set of Bridgestone W60 ... more than 4 seasons and tons of tire tread left. I'm usually a Nokian or a Michelin guy ... but I'm really impressed at how long the Bridgestones have lasted (and I know the winter compound goes only 1/2 way ... then all-season compound afterwards ...)
I'm surprised to hear about the Nokian all seasons. I've had Nokian RSi winter tires on my car for 10 years. I'm retiring them next month due to age. They still have decent tread and that's after 45,000 miles.
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Originally Posted by Edward'TLS
The new generation snow tire from Michelin : X-ice Xi3, has been getting really good reviews.

Bridgestone has not updated it's Blizzak snow tire product line for quite a few years already.
Just bought a set of X-ice Xi3's and had the chance to try them out in poor conditions over the weekend and today as well. I'm very impressed with them. Much better than any all-season's I've had in snow and icy road conditions.

Also got a set of Lattitude X-ice Xi2's for my wife's '09 Odyssey. Can't even begin to explain how much better these are than the Firestone all-season's that were on it. The Firestone's were horrible. My wife is not a confident driver in bad conditions, yet she was just fine on the snowy/icy roads today with the new tires.
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Originally Posted by 03TLSinCO
Just bought a set of X-ice Xi3's and had the chance to try them out in poor conditions over the weekend and today as well. I'm very impressed with them. Much better than any all-season's I've had in snow and icy road conditions.

Also got a set of Lattitude X-ice Xi2's for my wife's '09 Odyssey. Can't even begin to explain how much better these are than the Firestone all-season's that were on it. The Firestone's were horrible. My wife is not a confident driver in bad conditions, yet she was just fine on the snowy/icy roads today with the new tires.
There is no comparing a good snow vs all season tire, the snow tire is the only way to go if you live in a climate that gets snow or ice yearly
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'all-season' is a euphemism for 'mediocre at everything'.
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