It’s already winter, but it’s not too late to get winter tires.
And, yes, even if you have all-wheel drive or an SUV—or an SUV with all-wheel-drive—this applies to you.
“All-wheel drive, just like other safety systems such as traction control or ABS, doesn’t improve traction, or create traction, it just maximizes the traction you have,” Campbell says. In other words, your all-wheel-drive system will just spin all four wheels as it goes nowhere, instead of only two. And, more importantly, all-wheel drive does very little to help you turn and absolutely nothing to help you stop. And, really, in the winter months, what is more important? In the winter, getting moving is easy enough; it just takes patience and sometimes a heavy enough right foot. But being able to stop again is critical and requires traction.
“A lot of all-terrain tires are three-peak mountain snowflake branded. In order to achieve that brand, a tire has to be physically tested and perform noticeably better than the reference tire. But that is only in one specific condition: medium-packed snow. And it only tests acceleration traction. And if it delivers 10% more traction than the reference tire, it meets the three-peak mountain snowflake requirement.”In other words, that’s just one specific test that has nothing to do with stopping.
A new set of winter tires is no more expensive than a new set of regular tires. And miles you put on your winter rubber are miles not accumulated on the standard tire. That means you’re not only making your car safer in the colder months, you’re extending the life of your warmer climate shoes.Born into a house full of car magazines, Saabs and MG parts, Robin Warner fell in love with the automobile around the same time he learned to walk.
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