Blizzak WS70 Snow Tires FTW

[Kelbyat07]

Originally Posted by kALMIGHTY

Yeah, they kinda feel like you are floating on the road, especially when you first make the transition from summer tires to these tires. You get used to it, even the lighter feeling steering wheel, but that's to be expected with the softer winter tires anyway.

They tend to break traction easily on dry roads if you try to corner too hard or fast, so you definitely can't throw it into corners as easily as you could on even the stock summer tires.

It was just a strange feeling when I first drove home after getting the tires mounted, but I've honestly forgotten what the summer tires even felt like. These just feel "stock" now. You lose a bit of dry road performance, but you gain a tremendous amount of snow/ice performance.

By the way, what size should I get?

[Kelbyat07]

Originally Posted by Burrcold

How much snow are you getting in Cali? lol

If it's just a bit, assuming you're in NorCal, I would look at the LM series rather than the WS's. Better dry performance, still decent snow performance...perfect compromise IMO.

No I live in Chicago haha. Lots of snow.

[Burrcold]

Originally Posted by PursuitOfPerfection

No I live in Chicago haha. Lots of snow.

Ah that makes sense! WS70's it is then

[utekineir]

My ws70 were $400 on cl spotlessly new (old woman traded her legacy) on steelies.

First impressions were that the car felt like a swishy paintbrush compared to it on summer tires.


The car making it through the worst of every storm so far this winter without an issue has been well worth it

[Kelbyat07]

Originally Posted by Burrcold

Ah that makes sense! WS70's it is then

Lol thanks. Good look out by the way! Do you know what sizes to get?

[Burrcold]

Originally Posted by PursuitOfPerfection

Lol thanks. Good look out by the way! Do you know what sizes to get?

I went with stock size, only because I was able to pick-up a set of OEM rims pretty cheap. I also like not having a steel wheel or aftermarket wheel for 4-6 months of the year (no offence to those that run these).

[OrbitalEllipses]

Suberman post yet?

[Burrcold]

Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses

Suberman post yet?

Thankfully he's banned

[TheseColorsDontRun]

Originally Posted by PursuitOfPerfection

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

With my Blizzaks, the steering wheel is more of a suggestion than a command. And I have the LM series Blizzaks, the sportier version, so I can only imagine how the WSs feel. I picked them up second hand, so a pretty good discount. They have paid for themselves many times over this winter.

[connorlug]

i'm in love with my blizzaks this car actually has done really good in the snow for me so far with a fresh set of blizzaks. and that's coming from owning two subarus lol

[kALMIGHTY]

Originally Posted by PursuitOfPerfection

By the way, what size should I get?

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.

[immaculate]

Maybe I should have gone with these over the LM-60's. Really unimpressed with their performance, any kind of incline and I feel like I may as well be on summer tires.

I saw the LM's were supposed to be great for areas that don't see a ton of snow and thought they'd be great for the tri-state region...then this winter hit and was like, "nope, fuck that plan."

[DoomsdayJesus]

Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses

With the right tires, some ballast in the trunk, and proper throttle/clutch/brake/steering input this car does beautifully in the snow.

Huh, you know the ballast thing completely escaped me. I helped my buddy load sandbags in his old Ford Ranger for the same reason a few years back in Philly, and the idea of adding weight on the BRZ for snow just didn't translate over for some stupid reason. I'm sure growing up in SoCal didn't help.

When I just got back after a month of training in the Mojave, my battery was dead and there was 2-3 inches on the ground/poorly plowed roads. Made it home safe after a jump, but I stalled out just trying to get up my driveway and couldn't re-start it, having to waste another 30 minutes at 2:30 in the morning using my Outback to jump my car. That was fun.

[Ganthrithor]

Originally Posted by Burrcold

Thankfully he's banned

Here let me fill in for him:

"This car was designed wrong from the factory and ~*obscure suspension metric*~ makes it so that if you try to drive these cars when it's snowing somewhere on planet earth then you will spin off the road, hit a fuel station and explode. Worst winter car I've ever driven!"