I always buy my Nokians from www.meadowcreektire.com in Colorado (
nobody even sells Nokians in My state ) great prices and reasonable on
shippping. Usually takes about 2-3 days to get them ( as long as the
clowns at the fedex ground terminal don't try to steal them...which
happened last time, but that's a fedex problem at least they don't leave
them at the wrong house like UPS ) I'm not sure what the price is this
year, but it was pretty close to that last time.
------------Robert
Levi Smith wrote:
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
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