studded snow tires

[SandburRanch]

If I am not mistaken, going too fast will cause the studs to eject!! not sure what speed, but if your traveling highways i would look into what speed they pop out at.

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I do know they stay put at 70 mph in a 16" wheel.

 

[mrmikey]

If I am not mistaken, going too fast will cause the studs to eject!!

I've never had that problem and I've never know anyone that's had it. not saying it isn't possible.
I wouldn't be without studs....Mike

 

[Bird]

I've never had that problem and I've never know anyone that's had it. not saying it isn't possible.
I wouldn't be without studs....Mike

Go to google.com and enter "speed ejecting tire studs" and you can read about such happening. Even though I'm so far south I've no personal experience, I used to read law enforcement fleet management articles and remember hearing of tires up north throwing studs, and my two brothers lived 20 and 25 years in Alaska so they told me of it happening, and if anyone doesn't know it, there are different kinds of studs that can make some difference.

 

[sal64]

I've been offered a nice set of 4 studded snow tires for my 2006 Dodge Caravan. I've heard that studded snow tires are only good when there's snow on the ground, and they're hard to stop on non-snow covered roads. Does anyone have any experiece with them?

My wife uses this minivan for deliveries of our goat milk and as her regular car around town.

if you have a blacktop driveway they will scratch it up.

 

[boxygen]

Most people think it is the amount of powered wheels that helps traction. That is mostly an ignorant perspective. With todays smart all wheel drive cars, I'd start to buy that argument.
I have a full size 4x4 truck and a front wheel drive saab with studded snows. Unless the snow is 2 feet deep, I'll take the studded car everytime.

 

[mmurphy]

I have studded tires for my Escort also. Makes a big difference on snow or slick conditions. Never had a problem stopping on dry pavement either.

 

[Will_C]

I use studded snows on a Toyota Camry. I am a conservative driver, and I have not noticed any problems on dry pavement-but I understand the theory that there could be problems with aggressive driving.

Having said that, I would rather drive the Camry on ice or less than 3-4" of snow than my 4wd Tundra.

Will

 

[k0ua]

I have never driven a vehicle with studded tires, so I cannot speak from experience, but I will say this: My company ( a phone and data provider) puts studded tires on its entire fleet of service trucks and vans in the winter and takes them off in the spring. This is probably thousands of vehicles. If they did not work, they would not do this.
James K0UA

 

[QRTRHRS]

Back in 72'-73', I had a new 72' IH truck. I put studs on all four wheels. One night I was visiting my brother who live on a hill. You could exit either way but you were going to go down hill. It was sleeting all evening so about the time it came to get going, my brother offered to put me up. Nah', I can handle it.

The road was absolutely glare ice. I put the truck in low range, low gear figuring I could idle my way down the hill. About that time, compression took over and I got to spinning around in circles. The snowbank kept me in check and in a few seconds, I found myself sitting in the middle of the T intersection at the bottom of the hill.

Don't know how many times I did a full 360 but then a few glasses of vino might have comtributed. LOL!

PS, back in my teens, I worked at my buddies gas station. I don't recall spitting studs out as being an issue and Lord knows, we all tried.

 

[tsteahr]

I have used Firestone Winterforce snows on my rangers, both studded and unstudded. Having used the same model tire on the same vehicle, both with and without studs installed, I can say the studs make very little difference in stopping on dry roads. In terms of winter performance, only on ice or very hardpacked snow did I find the studs helpful. In softer snow conditions I did not experience any perceptible difference with the studs vs without. A few years ago I was in a ice storm with a solid, smooth glazing of ice in the roads. That was the only time I really felt the studs made a significant improvement. My observation has been a Blizzack open cell studless snow provides better traction on ice than a studded snow. I had a set of first generation Blizzacks on a Acura. They were the grippiest snows I have ever driven. They wore very quickly if driven on dry roads however.