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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
I don't care about speed rating with snows. I'll never get past 80 on them, if that. My old Dunlops were great at carrying 75 or so through the curvy bits of 80 down by the rest stop at Gold Run, so that's good enough for me. I'd give up max lateral grip for better ice grip anyway, since that's the whole point of not running all seasons.
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Huh? M3s, 3Ds and W300s are all performance/sport snows, not hard core grip ice/snows like the Blizak Ws-50, Revos, etc.
Any tire should be able to handle 80 at 75 in the dry, even RE-92s.
So I don't understand what you are saying.
Either you want ice traction and go with Revos or you give up some of that and look to the sport tires... If you do the later, a V speed rating is probably at least a partial indicator of how the tire is constructed relative to dry performance.
I'm not talking about the H rated tires flying apart at highway speeds, I am talking about sidewall and ply construction related to performance. In most cases, a V tire will be a higher performance tire than an H. I'm also not saying we are going autocrossing on our snows, but the feel of a higher performance tire and once the 3-4/32nds of an inch of snow compound wears off, many of us will run those tires for one or more years of spring-fall until they die. During that time as well as when new in the dryer roads of Reno, I definitely would prefer a higher performance tire.
Now if I lived in Truckee, Tahoe or skied enough to get a season pass, I'd lean toward the Revos.