In a message dated 97-10-24 20:23:38 EDT, you write:
<< Lots of "Tire width in snow messages lately". Snow's same as sand. When
you
drive on a beach you have to let the air out. You need the surface area for
floatation and to keep from getting bogged down. Skinny tires in snow will
just cut you down to a layer of water built up by friction. Or worse, a
layer of ice on the road. Same works in reverse when stopping. Hit the
breaks and a fat layer of snow in front of the tires will slow you down.
That's why anti-lock doesn't work in snow. Wider is better! >>
Nope Wider is for flotation, now if the snow is deep enough to where you
would bottom out and get hung up wider may help a little but normally
narrower will get through to where you can get traction ie pavement or gravel
and the narrow will get there easier. Wider in snow is like being on 4
tobaggons.
Bill
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