Grip in the snow

**Swatty** · 18th January 2007, 21:44

When I was taking the car out the drive I was looking at the tread pattern in the snow, and I started to think about grip.

With a direction tread (see pic) - would you get more grip if you reversed?

spoons · 18th January 2007, 21:46

Sounds logical.....

**ed taylor** · 18th January 2007, 21:53

Look at the dirrection of the tread on the rear wheels of a tractor, it will give you an idea....

**CPHB** · 18th January 2007, 22:08

Here you have a proper winter-tire

there is a arrow that shows the direction

**Bainie** · 18th January 2007, 22:49

I had toyo snoproxes on my MG, think that was there name any hoo, they were the ****** ... Toyo TiS`s weren`t too hot, for the reason you say I reckon, the tread didn`t help them ..

**david-bell** · 18th January 2007, 22:51

as ed was saying about a tractor tyre if i turned my green giants tyres so the direction was going backwards grip would be c...p so it would just be the same case with a car tyre you would think

**Swatty** · 18th January 2007, 22:54

Did not have time to play in the morning and it turned to slush when I got home.

My house is at the top of a slight hill, just wondering if it would give me a slight edge.

Roll on the next snow fall

CPHB - I stay fairly high up and the weather conditions are quite different when I leave home to when I get to the main road (the guys in Glasgow today did not believe there was any snow when I got there).

I don’t have a lot of experience of winter tyres but I almost lost it when I was driving an avenger that had them fitted (a few years ago) – I did not realise the grip on clear/black roads was significantly less than normal road tyres.

I would imagine that you spend a lot of time in the white stuff at this time of year

**Bainie** · 18th January 2007, 23:03

The toyo winter tyres aren`t really snow tyres, they are tyres with a chunky tread on them but no studs on them, they were great in the wet as well ...

**parapaul** · 18th January 2007, 23:11

Doesn't it stand to reason then that winter tyres would probably grip better all year round in the UK, given our perma-drizzle climate?

As I've said b4, the cars we drive at work have Goodyear Eagle F1's on, with the directional tread pattern, and the grip is appalling compared to the NCT5's on my vec...

**Swatty** · 18th January 2007, 23:42

Originally Posted by david-bell

as ed was saying about a tractor tyre if i turned my green giants tyres so the direction was going backwards grip would be c...p so it would just be the same case with a car tyre you would think

I have not fitted direction tyres for a long time and I have to agree with parapaul - the NCT5's I normally fitted (although not the best tyre) had more grip in the snow (last year).

If you drive the tractor backwards up a slope is the grip bad.