I heard that skinny tires on my tiberon sink down into the snow and grip better then wider tires, creating less cutting threw the snow. i heard the reason the trucks in alaska use fat tires cause they have no tar there to sink into. Am i correct? or just an I-Spic?:embarrassed:
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the reason you use skinny tires is less resistance! which is what you need to get you car through the snow. if you have some big fat ass wide tires it would take twice the force to propell the car. the reason trucks have some wide as tires is because they have the torque to turn the tires! you don't!
I-spic... you are right about the trucks in Alaska.. some of them. There is a "highway" that runs north towards Nome that is only usuable in the winter because it simply does not exist in the summer. It is used exclusivly for the trucks supplying the oil industry and is just smoothed over ice and snow.. so there is no asphault for the trucks to cut into.
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a mechanic buddy o'mine plows in the winter. he destroyed his transfer case(made of cast iron) plowing w/ big ass monster tires. so, even w/ all of the torque this and other trucks have, youre better off w/ skinny's.
Actually, the reason you put skinny winter tires on is that it affects the shape and size of your tires' contact patch with the road. You are putting the weight over a smaller surface area, which helps with your traction on ice and snow, and the shape of the contact patch becomes narrower and longer than with wider summer tires. This helps with your acceleration and braking.
Think about a pizza cutter. Try cutting a pizza with a 3 inch wide pizza cutter or a regular one with the same amount of force. Which one would cut through to the bottom better?
You people are all retarded snow tires are big so that you can go OVER the snow not plow through the shit, if you have 3 feet of snow your not gonna cut down through it and ice u just can't cut through so the wider your tires the better the grip.. I'd like to see tires cut through packed snow or black ice. And for stopping imagine that, stopping with bicycle tires on black ice... right:dead:
Nope... hate to disagree.. but snow tyres are generally narrow with a deep and sharp tread to dig in and claw through the nasty white stuff. You want to see a nasty show tyre.. look at the studded tyres they use in rallying.. not some whimpy 100 studs.. but we are talking 300 or more per tyre. Studs do not ride over snow and ice.. they dig into it and grip.
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Originally posted by I-Spic
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You people are all retarded snow tires are big so that you can go OVER the snow not plow through the shit, if you have 3 feet of snow your not gonna cut down through it and ice u just can't cut through so the wider your tires the better the grip.. I'd like to see tires cut through packed snow or black ice. And for stopping imagine that, stopping with bicycle tires on black ice... right:dead:
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[body]Skinny tires work better in the snow
because you have more weight per unit area of contact patch with the
ground. This factor better enables the tread to push through the snow
(assuming a reasonable tread for snow) and actually reach the pavement
underneath. Wider tires will tend to snowplane above the pavement. If
you'll be driving a lot in snow get a set of narrower rims and skinner
tires with slightly higher profile.
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