Snow Tires... ???? Weird... - Honda Prelude Forum

JaXx4k · 11-24-2003, 06:32 PM

i got snow tires mounted on the front... they're the michelin alpines... how r they suppose to feel lik???

it feels lik i have no grip on the dry roads... DOES SNOW TIRES ONLY WORK WELL in SNOW... n wack on DRY ROAD???

cuz i can turn my wheel real quick...

Daemione · 11-24-2003, 09:08 PM

Snow tires are worse in the dry. That would be why we don't run them in the summer . . . .

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cuz i can turn my wheel real quick...

What does this mean?

JaXx4k · 11-24-2003, 09:23 PM

^^ i can spin my steering wheel...REAL FAST... lik im on on the road..

OSUlude · 11-24-2003, 10:28 PM

the greater amount of sipes in the tire lets each one of the many tire 'knobs' (is that the right word) squirm much more than a typical tire. What kind of tires were you using before?

JaXx4k · 11-25-2003, 06:49 AM

yokohamaz es100

Daemione · 11-25-2003, 07:25 AM

So you've got the Michelin Alpin's in the front with ES100's in the rear? I thought we went over this . . . . can i go getto lik this???

Just asking for an accident.

shik0me · 11-25-2003, 11:38 AM

Yeah, no snow tire is going to compare in dry traction with a summer performance tire. Plus they wear out faster, so there's no point in pushing them hard. I had the Arctic Alpin's last season and they seemed to be as good as the stock RE-92's.

Mugenlude · 11-25-2003, 11:42 AM

They are going to have less traction than a dry performance tire such as the ES100's. Although my Michellin XS300's (pre-alpines) have better dry traction/corner grip than my stock RE-92's.

aklucsarits · 11-25-2003, 12:05 PM

Yeah, that is seriously dangerous using snow tires up front, but not in the rear... The big problem in winter driving is not going, it's stopping. When you try to stop on snow or ice, what will happen is that the front will have more grip than the rear, and the car will spin very easily.

I had Michelin Arctic Alpins on my SE-R (all 4 wheels

) last winter and they really are awesome in the snow. On Christmas day I was crusin around on completely unplowed roads with 6"-8" of snow on them with no problems. They are good in the rain too (although they sound like a jet turbine when wet). In the dry, they are definitely not performance tires. And the rubber coumpound is quite soft, so they wear pretty rapidly in the dry too.

Andrew - who autoXed his Sentra on Arctic Aplins in the snow last January and beat every AWD car but one

apocalypse · 11-25-2003, 02:16 PM

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Originally posted by aklucsarits
Yeah, that is seriously dangerous using snow tires up front, but not in the rear... The big problem in winter driving is not going, it's stopping. When you try to stop on snow or ice, what will happen is that the front will have more grip than the rear, and the car will spin very easily.

not to mention when you turn it will be tailhappy