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Originally Posted by Zippy Wizz Kidd
And it's not about pliability all though it does help, it's about the design of the tread on the tyre which helps as its a version of wet tyres but for snow as the tread is designed to push the snow out when the tyre rolls over snow the way a wet tyres pushes out water
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The thousands of tiny grooves are designed to collect snow and ice within them which in turn momentarily bonds with the frozen road surface which is the basis of any snow/winter tyre. this means the cheapest tattiest winter tyre massively out performs any high end summer tyres on snow/ice.
tyre pattern - this is where your dollar makes the difference in winter tyres as this is the same principal as you'd expect on summer tyres because it determines how good the tyre will perform if wet/dry/breaking/road noise and so on. we bought the auto express best buy dunlops as they do most all and were £90 each for anyone pondering cost.