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I have a front wheel drive vehicle and I seem to get stuck a lot when it snows because the streets are hilly.
Can someone tell me what I need to know about snow tires? Or is that the way I need to go to get around better in the winter?
Thank you
Winter driving...ice and snow...slipping and sliding...dings and dents. Although your vehicle's ABS and traction control may be working overtime restricting your progress to the traction available from its all-season tires, with months of winter driving still ahead, isn't there a better way?
BLIZZAK Performance winter / snow tires feature high-performance winter tread compounds molded into directional tread designs that provide thousands of biting edges to combine stop and go traction in snow with responsive handling in wet and dry road conditions.
BLIZZAK Studless Ice & Snow tires feature a patented MULTICELL compound that contains millions of microscopic pores to help grip ice without the use of studs. BLIZZAK Studless Ice & Snow tires have been shown to stop a vehicle traveling at only 30 miles per hour an average of 35 feet shorter on ice than popular all-season radials...a distance of about two car lengths!
Front wheel drive cars have very poor traction going up hill, because when your car is facing uphill, the center of gravity gets shifted toward the rear. If you park on a hill, always park so your drive wheels are lower than the non-drive wheels. In other words, with front wheel drive, never back down a hill, because you might not be able to get back up.
mgt04 is right! You want 4 good snow tires. Otherwise, the back end of your car will be all over the place when you would most lkely prefer to be traveling in a straight line.
Living at 8,500' in Colorado, you learn to appreciate good winter tires. Just go on tirerack and see which tires get the better reviews. You can't go wrong with the Blizzaks as mentioned above. Go on youtube and search 'winter tires' and you will find some good videos showing the advantages of winter tires.
Just remember due to the soft rubber compound, these tires will melt (tread won't last long) when the temps get above 50F. So make sure you put them on when it starts getting cold and take them off when the temps start to rise.
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