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Nankang Snow SV-2 - First Impressions
Garth:
--- Quote from: LouCyffer on December 06, 2010, 08:14:58 pm ---Supply & demand is the reason. After last winter, there was always going to be more interest in winter rubber this time around. I got my Vredestein Wintracs in September, at £130 per corner (225/45 18), so my winter wheels were ready & waiting. Frankly I'm not surprised at the price rise now.
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Similar story here. I was being quoted £170 for my Wintracs (225/45/18 94V) bbut noehad any stock. Ii evntually manged a deal of £145 each with wheels, but even that was a bit more than I had seen earlier in the year. What load rating is the golf? is it 91 or 94? I saw the 91 rating tyres going for quite a bit less than the 94's and wheelbase still had some left
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LouCyffer:
Mine are 92W, 18 inch
andrewparker:
Now the weather has improved I thought I'd give a further appraisal of the Nankang Snow SV-2 tyres.
In snow, ice and slush these tyres never ceased to amaze me, so driving them in drier conditions has given me a chance to rate them from a totally different perspective. The temperature has been approximately 6 - 7°C recently, and the roads have varied from wet/greasy to fully dry. I've found that the tyres struggle for grip under hard acceleration in first and second gear. It's all too easy to trigger the ESP light, something I found very hard to do even in snow! My car has the standard power output, so this would be magnified on a remapped car.
Secondly, they have absolutely no rim protection edge. They actually appear to sit inside the rim edge slightly. This isn't of much a concern for me because I have them on my winter wheels, which I've long since given up being careful with, but it might be worth considering if you're putting them on wheels you value.
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: andrewparker on December 15, 2010, 02:05:14 pm ---Now the weather has improved I thought I'd give a further appraisal of the Nankang Snow SV-2 tyres.
In snow, ice and slush these tyres never ceased to amaze me, so driving them in drier conditions has given me a chance to rate them from a totally different perspective. The temperature has been approximately 6 - 7°C recently, and the roads have varied from wet/greasy to fully dry. I've found that the tyres struggle for grip under hard acceleration in first and second gear. It's all too easy to trigger the ESP light, something I found very hard to do even in snow! My car has the standard power output, so this would be magnified on a remapped car.
Secondly, they have absolutely no rim protection edge. They actually appear to sit inside the rim edge slightly. This isn't of much a concern for me because I have them on my winter wheels, which I've long since given up being careful with, but it might be worth considering if you're putting them on wheels you value.
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....On the point of lacking rim protection I think that most of us who value our rims aren't going to place our wheels anywhere near situations where a tyre's rim protector would get used. So, a very good thing to know but not a deal-breaker.
Hearing that these tyres "struggle for grip under hard acceleration in first and second gear" is a deal-breaker for me though. But one does have to remember that these Nankangs are "Snow" tyres and so that's what they're primarily designed for. Personally, I simply don't go anywhere in my car if there's snow and ice.
coullstar:
They only struggle if you floor it. Ive been driving with then and not had any issues. Yes they move about slightly more but if I tried doing the same type of driving with my normal tyres Id have been in the ditch by now. Thats on wet / greasy roads.
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