[W126 Coupe] Help

[Jonathan Hodgman]

I've run on Blizzaks in a TE on ice, snow etc and they were Very
impressive!  My parents driveway is about a mile long and a good chunk of it
being winding and going up hill..    Our friends Exploder on M&S's got stuck
but the wagon on Blizzaks motored up Quite nicely!

Jonathan


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Andrew Sporner <asporner at googlemail.com>wrote:


> I know the point that the original poster made was that he wanted to have

> no winter tires.

>

> However I swear by them.  I have continentals for winter and Fulda for

> summer

> and this works very well.  (I have still the original 14" rims).  I

> would never do

> it any other way.  The all-season tires are really a compromise in

> both situations.

>

> I am not sure if there is a difference between what in Europe is called

> winter

> tires and those in the USA.  I remember as a child we had this and the road

> noise was terrible.  These here you would no really no difference, except

> that

> in rain and snow the winter tires do better (softer rubber).

>

> Cheers

>

>

>

> Andy

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