BnVMPS - Recommend you check all the threads here. Also visit Tire Rack - Your performance experts for tires and wheels and do your own comparisons. The test reviews are good. If you are in Australia, stick with max performance summer tyres, unless you are in snow and ice more than is usual, such as going skiing - just my opinion - but my Sumitomos remain great in the wet too. I'd forget about trying to warm up your tyres. If you are in urban conditions, then I doubt they'll get warm enough to matter. Longer runs on hot days will warm your tyres up more than you want anyway. That's why you get summer tyres, as they tend not to delaminate and blow from heat stress, and can handle higher speeds without overheating to a critical point. Winter tyres not only have different compounds but also usually more water removal pathways.
Last edited by Doug_MPS6; 11-02-2011 at 12:33 PM.
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