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Originally Posted by NetMagi
You want a small contact patch with lots of the cars weight on it.
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Tire width barely affects contact patch size. Total contact patch area = (roughly) weight/tire PSI. Tire width affects contact patch shape. So what you said makes no sense whatsoever. You'd still want narrow tire, but not for the reason you gave.
2 OP: how many miles do you have on your winter tires? My Xi3s were very slippery for the first 1-2 hundred miles (normal for all tires). It's okay now, unless it's wet and 60s. Then it's like I'm driving on ice :P