If you choose winter rubber for your car, there is much more nuanced than the basic choices: spikes or not? As always, motorists are divided into two irreconcilable camps, and are age-old dispute about this, starting in October each year.
But all the better to refer to specialists, who argue that: "The type of buying winter rubber directly depends only on the conditions of its use." Please note the view of experts that neshipovannaya rubber behaves much better on asphalt-concrete surface, as well as on the snow-covered sections of the road, while shipovannaya is designed for use on zaledenelom coating and wet ice. However, without exception, all spikes (regardless of the manufacturer of the tires) wear out quickly and produce an unpleasant noise when you use them on asphalt surface. At the same time not lose sight of the fact that the rubber shipovannoy stopping distance in ice is reduced by almost thirty per cent, compared with neshipovannoy. But the stopping distance neshipovannoy rubber on the pavement below, five to seven per cent against the shipovannoy. It is also necessary to mention that when you run bought rubber (around 200-300 kilometers), not to make sudden maneuvers on the road, and emergency braking - then your wheels prosluzhat much longer.
The instructions attached to any car, there is information about the recommended size tire. But in the winter time, many are prepared to allow the Car to change the size of the wheels for the winter. On the advice service for the winter is best to put the wheels of a smaller radius and a higher profile. This gives the car a better grip with the road surface, and strangely enough will make your car more softly. If in winter you will have to dangle a lot of forests and fields, then we advise you to install a more narrow tires, it is much more to increase the controllability of the snow-covered areas, as well as in ice. But there is one rule: do not put tires of different diameters at the front and rear axle. This is permissible only in cases where this is provided by the car.
But if your budget does not allow to buy a new rubber, a secondary market for tires, too, is quite rich. Through the Internet, as well as in the respective stores, you can easily find the worn rubber to any vehicle. But here one must be extremely careful and attentive, as well as on the standard tire should live no more than 5 years. Tires produced in Russia very seldom reach up to this point while the foreign bus can serve you for decades. These tires, even a different marking, which consists of four digits, which indicate the week and year of manufacture of the tire. If the index consists of only three digits, it means that the tire was made in the previous decade, perhaps even in the 80th years. To measure the level of wear of the tires need to define a protector: the standard height of the residual pattern should not be less than 1.6 mm for passenger cars. Wear rubber shipovannoy determine much simpler: it is enough to look at the number of spikes, as well as by the presence of rust on them. But still worth noting that, with improper storage of tires, even with a normal tread and thorns, they may not be suitable for use.
Then there is the question of economy. It is clear that as in any other business here is informal vendors, who can buy a new tire models, which looked forward to their customers at the moment. But there is great risk of running on bad products. It also means savings for the purchase of tires is not the most expensive of the lineup last season. Basically they are improvements over previous models of load and speed index.
At its core, the tire is the only link to the auto road surface, so the tires are advised not to save, as in the first place you save on your health and safety and the safety of other road users and their passengers.