Blizzak WS70 Snow Tires FTW

[congee]

I agree, at first it felt like riding on pillows which didn't feel that great but once the snow and wet kicks in, you really feel the difference.

Curious, what psi does everyone have their tires set at?? I know the max is 44psi. When I first got mine, they were set to 40 each wheel by the shop that mounted them for me. Should the rear wheels be less or more psi or should they all be balanced? (Noob question, first car)

[DoomsdayJesus]

Originally Posted by Marchy

or something like that, its funny though because i tracked and agreed with him on a lot of points, but completely disagreed with him on a bunch of the crazier ones.

Suberman was an asshole, but he was more my kind of asshole. At least he normally had a metric ton of information to back up his points, but a lot of times I was left wondering, "what's the point?"

[Visxco]

Originally Posted by congee

I agree, at first it felt like riding on pillows which didn't feel that great but once the snow and wet kicks in, you really feel the difference.

Curious, what psi does everyone have their tires set at?? I know the max is 44psi. When I first got mine, they were set to 40 each wheel by the shop that mounted them for me. Should the rear wheels be less or more psi or should they all be balanced? (Noob question, first car)

Whatever they are set at, they should all be the same PSI.

[Akari]

It's amazing what snow tires and a little bit of weight can do. I used to DD my mustang in the snow and never once had a problem.

With my STi and snow tires the point at which I can't go any further is when thick snow is coming up the hood over the windshield and my wipers aren't strong enough to clear it for me to see.

[OrbitalEllipses]

Originally Posted by Burrcold

Thankfully he's banned

ROFL. Gatdam! Even I'm not banned. Yet. Well, not permanently anyway.

Originally Posted by congee

I agree, at first it felt like riding on pillows which didn't feel that great but once the snow and wet kicks in, you really feel the difference.

Curious, what psi does everyone have their tires set at?? I know the max is 44psi. When I first got mine, they were set to 40 each wheel by the shop that mounted them for me. Should the rear wheels be less or more psi or should they all be balanced? (Noob question, first car)

I rock mine between 36-38PSI to help with the soft sidewalls.

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by PursuitOfPerfection

Can you please explain what you mean by they are not perfect in dry conditions? Does it drive different?

As someone else already said, it's mostly due to softer sidewalls.

I often take snow tires up to Mammoth, and for 80% of the drive up the 14/395 a car with snow tires would feel like a lifted truck with massive tires.

On a car like ours with precise steering, it's very apparent... almost like bad tires at first.

-alex

[Ganthrithor]

Originally Posted by Marchy

i thought his point was that if you added weight you would ruin the balance of the car and cause the ass to be less predictable.


or something like that, its funny though because i tracked and agreed with him on a lot of points, but completely disagreed with him on a bunch of the crazier ones.

Originally Posted by DoomsdayJesus

Suberman was an asshole, but he was more my kind of asshole. At least he normally had a metric ton of information to back up his points, but a lot of times I was left wondering, "what's the point?"

I agree-- I didn't mind him that much. I wouldn't have banned him, that's for sure. Every time he started talking about oversteer I had to giggle a bit and wonder what he was smoking, though. It was like the dude had never driven a RWD car before and just kept trying to describe his first experience with oversteer over and over. GUYS WHEN I MASH THE THROTTLE THE BACK END KICKS OUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS CAR?!?!

Why'd they ban him though? At least his posts always got me thinking about suspension setup before remembering that suspension setup is pretty irrelevant when there's just no grip to be had.

[Burrcold]

Originally Posted by Ganthrithor

I agree-- I didn't mind him that much. I wouldn't have banned him, that's for sure. Every time he started talking about oversteer I had to giggle a bit and wonder what he was smoking, though. It was like the dude had never driven a RWD car before and just kept trying to describe his first experience with oversteer over and over. GUYS WHEN I MASH THE THROTTLE THE BACK END KICKS OUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS CAR?!?!

Why'd they ban him though? At least his posts always got me thinking about suspension setup before remembering that suspension setup is pretty irrelevant when there's just no grip to be had.

He was banned because he started making new posts about the same topic, just to stir shit up. He also began insulting members for not conforming to his ideas.

[Apecks]

I have WS70's on my BRZ as well. I told my wife that the car is a honey badger with them on. Snow, ice, whatever. Honey badger don't care, honey badger's a badass. It's been a wild winter here in Iowa, I'm really happy I put them on. I drove the car at the end of winter last year on the stock tires and it sucked.

[mjh712]

Originally Posted by kALMIGHTY

I went with stock size because going down to 16's doesn't actually provide much more ability to "cut" through the snow as some suggest.
Also, I knew eventually I'd get new wheels for the summer so I plastidipped the stock wheels and decided that I would save some money for new wheels in the summer instead of spending a bit of it on steelies for the winter. That way, I wouldn't end up with 3 sets of wheels when I buy new summer ones. Plus I don't like the look of steelies lol.

16" & 17" both have the same width, so cutting through the snow would be the same. The bigger tire wall comes in handy if you ever hit a curb, or in the more likely category, drive around in the wonderful world of potholes that we get here where it freezes, thaws, freezes, thaws, etc.

[kALMIGHTY]

Originally Posted by mjh712

16" & 17" both have the same width, so cutting through the snow would be the same. The bigger tire wall comes in handy if you ever hit a curb, or in the more likely category, drive around in the wonderful world of potholes that we get here where it freezes, thaws, freezes, thaws, etc.

Yeah I suppose the bigger sidewall would help a bit but it's still only 1.2 cm taller than the sidewall on a 17 inch tire if the diameter is the same. For me, I didn't want to spend extra money on 16 inch wheels or steelies when I knew I'd be getting 18 inch summer wheels later, so decided to use the stock ones for winter.

[TM]

For me, the cost of getting 16inch tires PLUS wheels was the same as getting just 17 inch tires, so it was a no brainer.


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[CodyFRS]

pffft, the snow is up to my windows here in PA. Snow tires aint helping me at all..

[taiguy]

this is when you hop into your other subaru...