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12-25-2012, 05:46 PM | #1 |
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Any compromise by using summer tires in Cold DRY weather?
I need to switch to non-RFT tires. I want to get the Continental DW tires, because I can avoid driving in snow. What I want to know is, whether there are any compromises with using summer tires in this Cold weather?
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For sure, "summer", Z rated, etc tires are not designed for cooler temperatures. Even though I live in Atlanta, that's one of the reasons I really wanted an LSD, during our mild winters my traction was horrible. I haven't personally tried Continental DWs but they are a summer tire, not designed to be used near freezing temperatures.
If I lived in NY and had a separate winter car, then I'd still get summer tires, but for sure I'd expect poor traction on cold tires.
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Once you get down to mid 30's F you'll be getting much less grip.
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12-26-2012, 07:45 AM | #4 |
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Naturally, as the other posters stated; summer tires stiff up in cold temps and thus resist traction notable. That said, as long as you're not planning on driving spirited on cold days and are confident that you're not going to get stuck out in bad weather, then it isn't so bad that you're not going to be able to get around just fine, it'll just reduce traction under hard accel/braking. If I had to throw out a guess, I'd say traction is reduce 30% under hard accel/braking.
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So the tread WILL or WILL NOT wear faster in the cold? |
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12-26-2012, 11:11 AM | #6 |
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I don't beleive tread wear wil be affected by the temperature, just grip. I have used Conti DW in the winter and as long as there was no snow there was no real problem. Most good summer tires have more grip that you will likely need in daily driving even in the summer so the grip you loose around freezing temperatures is usually unnoticable. I live in Albuquerque where it is freezing or below at night and up in the 40's during the days. My wife keeps all season tires on her car, (also a 128i) in case it snows. I have a set of all season tires also but rarely use them. I'm using Micheline PS2 now and they are fine.
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^ Agreed, wear shouldn't be an issue.
I tried getting to the dealership on summers two weeks ago; wet (rain, no snow) conditions and near freezing, driving like an ass per usual, it made for some sketchy up hill sections, but normal driving would have been fine.
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Check this out: http://www.caranddriver.com/comparis...omparison-test
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It only takes one accident which you avoid to pay for the cost of having snow tires. Over here in Germany... when the temps are under 7'C or less... you are required to have snow tires (M+S & the snow flake symbol). Other wise you can be charged as fault bc you couldn't avoid teh accident bc you had AS or summers on.
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IF it will be colder than 7'C - yes, I would use snow tires! Snow or no snow.
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When its cold outside ~30'F snow tires will wear the same as say summers.
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12-27-2012, 06:43 PM | #14 |
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^ I think FIRST1 means to ask if the summer tires will wear fast in winter use, no?
In my novice mind, I don't see how they would. Maybe hard use plus the stiffness will weaken them some, prone to cracking/rot over years, but lets face it...you won't get years of mileage out of them anyways so it shouldn't be an issue.
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12-28-2012, 04:36 AM | #15 |
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^^Ohh, Ok, Well... if you are gonna run summer tires in the winter time(cold weather, no snow) I don't think they would wear faster.
But summers will have no traction(compared to winters) bc the thread blocks are much harder and don't conform to the road surface. So if your constantly spinning your (summer) tires - you are gonna have more wear.
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They will wear slower if anything. The tire is colder and harder which means less friction is being generated by the tire. You can use a conti DW safely in near or below freezing temperatures, just be aware that they have a reduced amount of grip when its that cold outside. Ive daily driven on star specs, Kumho XS, and now Im on R-S3s year round in northern california. Even with temps below freezing you can safely drive on all of them. Besides the Conti DW compound is just about the best wet weather tire on the market right now and is a very soft compound despite its 340 utqg rating. Bottom line you can do it, snow tires will be completely unnecessary if you're not driving through snow.
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You can actually damage the compound permanently by running them in temps that are too low.
For summer tires, it is not advised to use them below 50 degrees. Some of the more temperamental (sticky) tires will be damaged permanently (I would say in the freezing/near freezing area). They will never perform the same after this happens. Be careful!
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If the ambiant temp is constantly below 5-7degC for greater than 6-8 weeks or longer, then yes, the compound can be damaged. My winter tyres are so much better in dry, sub 5degC temps than my summer tyres, that I wouldn't even consider running summers in winter, even here in the UK in a relatively mild winters. I don't know why the OP is so obsessed with asking about wear rate of his summer tyres in low temps - seems an irrelevant question to me
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Just a quick example, from TireRack:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete...sp?techid=220& Quote:
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