I was tidying up the hard drive a bit, and found these from a few years back. The pictures are from 26.3.2011, and all the snow fell during the night. The night picture is from the middle of the night in a residential street, and the other two are from the driveways of residential blocks. The "trough" in the snow is from my car...
Note that you shouldn't attempt this if it is heavy, wet snow. If the snow is compact enough, you'll be stuck with no ground pressure on the wheels, and no traction...
As long as you don't get enough heavy snow compacted under the car to loos ground pressure. I've gotten stuck with even a G-class that way. No help then, but either a shovel or a towing rope
On that day, in some places, I had snow coming over the bonnet...
I stick to studded tires with a nordic rubber mix. Non-studded winter tires are all well and good, but on wet ice, only studded tires or chains (and keeping your speed down and a good distance to the guy in front) will do...
Outlawing studs my not be all that smart for road safety. Studless tires have a tendency to polish packed snow and ice. You need a bcertain percentage of studded tires or chains to tough up the surface a little.
A studded tire fee may be the way to control the percentage a bit.
thanks for sharing
very cool
running on hakka 7 studded here. They are legal in Québec.
once you sample a studded tire there is no going back (unless they outlaw them that is)
I have the WR SUV tires. They have a full snow rating and are all season.
I see that they have moved onto the WR SUV G3 and dropped that size. I will find out what size Nokian winter only tire is used in place of the 275/55/17 tires on the MLs.
They will still need studs, or you will be skidding all over the road...
Johan-Kr
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