November Day of national unity this year and if you will remember, the queues to the tires. Longer to pull the weather says it's time to get winter tires.
It is not necessary to remind some of the capital truths for those who have this winter behind the wheel. And another repetition will never stop. Already at + 7, the summer rubber starts to blow-and it elongates the stopping distance. Don't wait for real cold, replace the wheels on the winter. And don't buy it if someone says, "You're going to have a good time." Self-confident demagogue is an enemy of common sense. Those who live far from the big cities, where the roads are more often ice-or densely packed with snow, need mistaken tires. If the roads are watched/sprinkated by reagents or they are clean before the asphalt, the advice is to choose a rubber hose. By the way, on your way to continental Europe, remember that the thorns will not let you in, and you will have to snort them with pliers and a screwdriver if you don't turn out to be a studio nearby. Many are convinced that the best rubber is produced by Japanese Shine Company. Far from all cases, this is confirmed-by the ZR tests. But how do I buy the right winter rubber? The criteria, preferences, and properties of the tires will be considered in the report on the survey of motorists, carried out by the "Zrudder" and "GfK-Rus" in the Russian Federation, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Don't shave or shave? Recall some peculiarities of winter tires. Many are sold with "stubble"-the tread of the tread as though it had grown up to a centimeter in length. Amateurs are puzzled (such letters came in): why is this and how "stubble" affects the coupling properties of the tread? These are the layers, the technological residues from the vulcanization, the stampening of the rubber mass in the press-form. Non-leading sellers are calming the buyers: as the tires are run-in, the hairs will be exhausted and disappear. Sooner or later-of course, but motorists, and thousands of kilometers, see that the bristle (on the driving wheels-more), but not all. Do the edges of the rubber grip reduce the rubber, especially with the icy canvas? The answer is if it is based on an experiment. The officers at the helm were assisted by the Michelin test group, which was testing winter tires. The experiment is "pure" compared to "hair" and "shaven" tread. Both the spikers spoke the same size. Since it is clear that the hairs can affect only the efficiency of the brakes on the ice, it is tested and carried out. The car-VW Golf, the route of the polygon, of course, was repeated. On that and other rubber, the machine behave almost the same, the difference in the experience of the test-tester, if it was, it was very small. After several races, it was recorded in the report: the differences in behavior of the car on one and the other rubber were practically not found even by the advanced drivers. One can assume that the nuances of the nuances depend on how each of the stripes has been treaded under the tread (and naturally they cannot be stacked exactly the same). The hair of the hairs, but the measurements (and they are an objective feeling of even the superprofessional) have been amazed! It was observed that the hair was improving the ice adhesion: by about 2% in the transverse direction and 6-8% in the longitudinal direction! The rubber layer on the tyres of the French test french was called ttine. In thanks to the Michelin test, the hairs in the table are indicated by the word ttinki. The leading "Shine" expert, Sergei Mishin, is inclined to believe that the rubber hairs between the tyre and the ice surface act the same way as thorns. Of course, the ice does not penetrate the ice, but increase the specific pressure on it, which means that the clutch is improved. On the rubber without the spike "bristle", of course, "works" in the same way. Need a run-in of Imagine, for the width of rubber it is necessary for the thorn "to gain strength". During the period of the rink, they are settled, occupy the most comfortable position for themselves, are fixed in the body of rubber. It's called "self-mounting." From here, it is clear that the spikts do not work at full strength in the first kilometers. Well, the glare at the best of the way fills the treadability. But the rider is also required by the driver himself. Try the way your snow tires behave before leaving on the road with intensive traffic, make a few brake applications, feel the activation of the ABS, how the car reacts to the steering wheel. In general, don't let the winter catch up!