11-19-2010, 11:49 PM
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I'm going to buy new all-season tires for my wife's '07 Subaru Outback. We live in eastern Massachusetts, so get a fair amount of snow, but the roads are generally plowed. The Subie is an automatic, so AWD when needed. She uses the car for suburban commuting; we might take a trip in it now and then, but for long trips I prefer my big Chevy van.
The owner of the shop I use is pushing the new model Nokian, called 'eNTYRE' (that's how they spell it), billed as an all-season tire "designed specifically for North America" (Nokian is a Finnish company, best known for their winter/snow tires). ??Nokian's WR-G2 'all-weather' (rather than 'all-season') gets good reviews for winter performance. ??The eNTYRE is new, so probably few have had much experience with them, especially in winter. They don't look as aggressive as the WR G2s.
I guess the difference between the two is that the eNTYRE is basically a summer tire that's OK in snow, and the WR-G2 is a snow/slush tire that's OK in summer. Nokian says that strictly winter tire rubber is not designed to be used when temps are consistently over 40ยบ F, and summer tires the reverse. So what compound do they use in these two?
http://www.nokiantires.com/tyre?id=99244&group=1.02&name=Nokian+eNTYRE
http://www.nokiantires.com/tyre?id=11899&group=1.02&name=Nokian+WRG2
Other recommendations welcome. I was considering Goodyear Triple Treads, but Joe at the shop says he's had terrible experience with them and wouldn't recommend them. He likes Cooper CS4s.
I toy with the idea of getting winter tires on rims and swapping fall and spring, but have not really had a problem with all-seasons on all my cars over the last two decades, even with hard winters like we had last year.
/Mr Lynn
I'm going to buy new all-season tires for my wife's '07 Subaru Outback. We live in eastern Massachusetts, so get a fair amount of snow, but the roads are generally plowed. The Subie is an automatic, so AWD when needed. She uses the car for suburban commuting; we might take a trip in it now and then, but for long trips I prefer my big Chevy van.
The owner of the shop I use is pushing the new model Nokian, called 'eNTYRE' (that's how they spell it), billed as an all-season tire "designed specifically for North America" (Nokian is a Finnish company, best known for their winter/snow tires). ??Nokian's WR-G2 'all-weather' (rather than 'all-season') gets good reviews for winter performance. ??The eNTYRE is new, so probably few have had much experience with them, especially in winter. They don't look as aggressive as the WR G2s.
I guess the difference between the two is that the eNTYRE is basically a summer tire that's OK in snow, and the WR-G2 is a snow/slush tire that's OK in summer. Nokian says that strictly winter tire rubber is not designed to be used when temps are consistently over 40ยบ F, and summer tires the reverse. So what compound do they use in these two?
http://www.nokiantires.com/tyre?id=99244&group=1.02&name=Nokian+eNTYRE
http://www.nokiantires.com/tyre?id=11899&group=1.02&name=Nokian+WRG2
Other recommendations welcome. I was considering Goodyear Triple Treads, but Joe at the shop says he's had terrible experience with them and wouldn't recommend them. He likes Cooper CS4s.
I toy with the idea of getting winter tires on rims and swapping fall and spring, but have not really had a problem with all-seasons on all my cars over the last two decades, even with hard winters like we had last year.
/Mr Lynn