Any experience on SNOW?

[skyhawk]

I'm in my 3rd winter with my hankook ipike winters. I have learned the behaviour of the tire. Where as before, I felt 'uncomfortable' at 4-way stops. i.e. it spins when you push the gas too hard - the tendency is to let go of the gas.. and 'crawl' my way out of the intersection.

This time, I've learned to simply 'let it spin' until it bites. As long as I'm minding the steering wheel, I push on the gas, the tire spins for a while then it bites and off I go quickly in a straight line.

 

[othercarasaab]

I made the mistake of thinking I could get through my first winter with my mz5 with the OEM Toyos!. Found out first hard way what fam above was talking about... unfortunately before reading this post.

Yesterday had the back end walk out on me going around a clover-leaf. Never gotten a car stuck in the snow before (13 upper-midwest winters, Chicago and Milwaukee). Also never understood how someone could put a car into the inside of a cloverleaf on-ramp before, either. I'm a dumb boy, thought the only way you could goof an on-ramp was understeer . Learn something new every day, and this time learned it the hard way. Plowed a few feet of the snow bank with the front bumper, kids stayed asleep in the car, cop helped me push it out with the wife behind the wheel. The -40 windchill sucked, probably played a role in the car spinning (30+mph winds, the wind was passing the car...)

So I'm pricing out snows today on Tirerack and Craigslist.
Live and learn. And hay, a snowbank is still the only thing I've hit with a car (and no damage resulted), so I'm not doing too bad.

 

[AIMWO4]

Yikes. I found some 17-inch General Altima Arctics for $88/ea.

I made the mistake of thinking I could get through my first winter with my mz5 with the OEM Toyos!. Found out first hard way what fam above was talking about... unfortunately before reading this post.

Yesterday had the back end walk out on me going around a clover-leaf. Never gotten a car stuck in the snow before (13 upper-midwest winters, Chicago and Milwaukee). Also never understood how someone could put a car into the inside of a cloverleaf on-ramp before, either. I'm a dumb boy, thought the only way you could goof an on-ramp was understeer . Learn something new every day, and this time learned it the hard way. Plowed a few feet of the snow bank with the front bumper, kids stayed asleep in the car, cop helped me push it out with the wife behind the wheel. The -40 windchill sucked, probably played a role in the car spinning (30+mph winds, the wind was passing the car...)

So I'm pricing out snows today on Tirerack and Craigslist.
Live and learn. And hay, a snowbank is still the only thing I've hit with a car (and no damage resulted), so I'm not doing too bad.

 

[mrbwa1]

Well... my snow experience has all of a sudden been ratcheted up! We had a dump of approx. 26 inched Last Wed followed by a few lesser storms making for a total mess over the weekend! The 5 mos most definately grounded with the full 26 inches as it simply can't handle that much no matter what. Once the side street was rutted down, I was able to get the 5 out an about, but the uneasy groan of snow backing into every crevice under the body wasn't the greatest feeling in the world!

Long story short, with the help of the 2nd gear lock on the AT, I was able to claw my way around some really nasty stuff on just the Dunlop Wintersport 3ds. Most Passenger cars have been relegated to chains (though they tend to be on all season tires). One thing for sue: Independent rear suspension is nice in the bumpy snow!

 

[Medicman]

My experience is this..
had some Semperit Wintersport tires on this year and coming home from Barrie last Friday I was not happy with the result. So I went and got 4 General Arctic Altimas ( same as Gislaved Nord Frost) and this weekend was a real good time to try them! These tires are great!
Here is a review http://www.canadiandriver.com/winter/tires/wintertiretest06-07_5.htm

 

[Timotee]

Hi Medicman. I had quite a drive around Mississauga last Friday as well, tail was swerving here and there....hehehehe. We did you get your Artics?

 

[Medicman]

Tires

I just got them at a local shop here west of London.
I later went to a parking lot that had a skiff of snow and tried to get the rear end to come around but it tracked perfectly..