Tungsten Carbide Studs on Winter Tires

During those snowy area, it has always been a trouble for cars running on roads covered by the snow until the winter tires came out, which has tungsten carbide studs on the tire. The following is an article from John Phillips: Winter tires? Yes, Have Some—Please

Now that I live at the end of a 1.75-mile gravel driveway cut rudely into the side of a mountain, I’ve gladly installed winter tires—don’t even think of calling them “snow tires”—on five different SUVs in the last 13 months. Four sets were attached to C/D’s long-termers, and one set of Toyo Observe GSi-5s now adorns my wife’s Toyota RAV4. The Toyos look like the raised hackles on a hyena.

I once got up from dinner just to go out and stare at them. But to own that rubber, I had to throw myself on the mercy of Les Schwab’s salesmen in Hamilton, Montana. I donned my macho Carhartt vest and said, “I want the 3PMSF rating and big fatso tread blocks made from library paste.” That’s all I knew about winter tires. The request came as no surprise to the salesman, who had 30 other winter-tire customers fidgeting in the showroom, a few studying tire chains that were on sale but most staring as if poleaxed at the TV, jammed at filibuster volume on Fox News, as always. What is the purpose of inflaming your customers?

                   

If winter tires alone don’t do the trick, you can always get them as spiked up as Dennis Rodman’s head, specifying 80 to 100 tungsten carbide studs per tire. For some reason, I thought studded tires had become as illegal as bullying sixth graders, but in Montana I hear the zzz-tickety-tock of tungsten carbide studs 20 times a day. Of course, plenty of folks still consider tungsten carbide studs a menace to drivers and taxpayers alike. They fling up a potentially unhealthy pall of roadway particulates, and they can gouge dual ruts that fill with water and encourage hydroplaning, but only if the water doesn’t freeze first.

A man’s emotions on a topic are inversely related to the amount of data he possesses. So I sought guidance from the Tire Rack’s Woody Rogers, who is to seasonal rubber what Madonna is to push-up bras.


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