Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:47:47 GMT From: hohnopsamlid.invalid (Goran Larsson) Subject: Re: 9-5 Snow tires or not?
In article <MPG.185fd78af03f2045989f8enopsam.cis.dfn.de>, SkodaPilot <carl.robsonnopsamcing-czechs.com> wrote: > In article <H6wFKI.rEnopsamove.se>, hohnopsamlid.invalid says... > > In the future you will get a German designed tire/tyre manufactured in > > Portugal with the Gislaved name on it. > Some of my Skoda owning buddies are fitting Gislaved tyres due to their > heritage for winter driving, saying that they seem to understeer a > little more than all round tyres (not dangerously so, just a little more > than standard). Round tyres? Isn't all tyres/tires round, or do Skoda owners use other shapes like square or hexagonal? > I wonder if this is due to them being a winter tyre, or being badly > designed? Winter tyres/tires have softer rubber compound. This affects the road holding. The understeer vs. oversteer issue can often be fixed by using correct tyre/tire pressure. Most drivers seems to use too low pressure, especially in the rear, resulting in degraded road holding. > I thought they were Conti owned, but didn't realise that they had done > the stupid move of removing winter tyres from their native home and > designers and expecting them to work so well. The current Gislaved tires/tyres are good designs, but the next generation will not be from the good Gislaved designers. The history shows that the Continental designers have never been able to make a winter tyre/tire that worked properly in the Nordic climate. They will most likely fail the next time as well... -- G–ran Larsson http://www.nospam.com
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