ZRrrr
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Been lots of talk on this forum about studding winter tires for our trucks. I like research so spent some time looking into studding tires. What I found was quite surprising. I do not have an opinion one way or the other but thought I would share some of what I learned and open the floor to debate.
There was a study done by the TRC that used be on the Tire Rack website. Some of the information from the study still floats around. Things they found:
* Studs are only best when on glare ice. For compacted, frozen, glazed snow studs were less effective than a performance winter tire.
*Studs perform so poorly on wet road conditions that the TRC had an entire section in the report dedicated to cautions regarding studded tire use.
*Winter tires with embedded particulates such as the Blizzaks and Green diamonds, showed little advantage over performance winter tires and were poor on wet roads.
*Highest marks went to winter performance tires such as Hakka's, Micheline Alpines, Blizzaks with micro pores, Firestone Winterforce.
A Japanese study found that studs tore up roads so bad they generated significant particles in the air. Enough to cause public healthe concerns and were therefore banned.
Several other studies showed that stud use was significantly responsible for excessive wear of asphalt resulting in grooved highways. It was correlated to severe hydroplaning accident levels during rainfalls, and millions of dollars in taxpayer money spent on early road repair. Numerous places have banned the use of studs as a result.
Like I said, I do not have an opinion one way or the other. Just interesting information.
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There was a study done by the TRC that used be on the Tire Rack website. Some of the information from the study still floats around. Things they found:
* Studs are only best when on glare ice. For compacted, frozen, glazed snow studs were less effective than a performance winter tire.
*Studs perform so poorly on wet road conditions that the TRC had an entire section in the report dedicated to cautions regarding studded tire use.
*Winter tires with embedded particulates such as the Blizzaks and Green diamonds, showed little advantage over performance winter tires and were poor on wet roads.
*Highest marks went to winter performance tires such as Hakka's, Micheline Alpines, Blizzaks with micro pores, Firestone Winterforce.
A Japanese study found that studs tore up roads so bad they generated significant particles in the air. Enough to cause public healthe concerns and were therefore banned.
Several other studies showed that stud use was significantly responsible for excessive wear of asphalt resulting in grooved highways. It was correlated to severe hydroplaning accident levels during rainfalls, and millions of dollars in taxpayer money spent on early road repair. Numerous places have banned the use of studs as a result.
Like I said, I do not have an opinion one way or the other. Just interesting information.
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