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I saw your user name and thought"this Guy will solve the debate on this thread"
and there you go!
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and there you go!
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Even as we differentiate among "no season" tires and "winter tires", some winter tires are optimized for different conditions. The Nordmans are the way to go for deeper, uncompacted snow. In those circumstances they're better than even the Nokian Hakkapeliittas. On compacted snow and ice, though, Hakkas are the ones you want (if $$$ is no object).I just put a set of Nokian Nordman studded snows on my golf, and they are AMAZING in deep snow. Even better than the Hakkapeliitta's I've had in the past.
Well, to be fair, the last time I had Hakkas was about 10 years ago- they've undoubtedly improved since then(and they were excellent back then). My studded Nordmans would probably run circles around un- studded Hakkas on ice though. Studded Hakkas are probably the pinnacle of snow tire performance.Even as we differentiate among "no season" tires and "winter tires", some winter tires are optimized for different conditions. The Nordmans are the way to go for deeper, uncompacted snow. In those circumstances they're better than even the Nokian Hakkapeliittas. On compacted snow and ice, though, Hakkas are the ones you want (if $$$ is no object).
Nordmans are old hakkapeliita tires sold at a entry level price to get new customers into the brandEven as we differentiate among "no season" tires and "winter tires", some winter tires are optimized for different conditions. The Nordmans are the way to go for deeper, uncompacted snow. In those circumstances they're better than even the Nokian Hakkapeliittas. On compacted snow and ice, though, Hakkas are the ones you want (if $$$ is no object).