I know what you mean about the tread on the Blizzaks. That's "kind-of" a trade-off. You only get the top 55% of the tread with the good snow compound. (though the new ones have "standard snow tire" tread for the bottom 45%, instead of all-season like the old ones) However, the other factor is that once they're down to less than half, there's not really much tread there to be very good in the snow anyway. So once you hit that point you just use them in the summer as all-seasons...
Out of curiousity, how DO the Nokians compare price-wise? I got some 185/75-14 Blizzak WS-50's for $64 each on a special at the Tirerack. Levi On Friday 14 October 2005 10:12 am, Lee Levitt wrote: > Levi, > > I'm moving from an Audi quattro to a '93 300 turbodiesel, so I've got a > similar adjustment to make :) > > I'm sticking with the Nokians...they've been wonderful tires, and I see no > reason to change. The Blizzaks, btw, will change characteristics as they > wear...the first layer of tread will give very good traction...the next > layer will act as a typical all season tire. > > I'm running the Nokian Rsi, and you're right, narrower is better... > > You can find these online from a number of sources. They're not cheap > tires, but the difference is far less than my $500 deductible. > > Lee
