[Shotimes] (OT) Hankook Icebear W300 tires?

[Ian Fisher]

I picked up a set of 235/45/17 Sumitomo HTR + for $86
each from Tirerack. They are sitting in the garage at
the moment. They are either going on my current set of
ASA's or a set of TSW's that I should be getting soon.


A friend of mine has them and likes them. He's
planning on getting the Pirelli P Zero Nero's next but
they are over $50 more per tire. (probably worth it
but I'm trying to stay on a budget).

I tried doing the "summer tire in the winter thing"
and almost died a few times; I'm looking forward to
trying out "performance oriented all seasons" that
should do pretty well in the snow. We had some deep
snow last year and he had no problems with them at
all. He runs them year round unless he's at the track.
They are also pretty good in the dry from what I
understand.

I was thinking of getting the same tires for mom's
Buick Regal but they aren't offered in 225/55/16.
However, the P zero nero's are. 

FWIW

Ian

--- Paul L Fisher <sho@paul-fisher.com> wrote:

> Yeah, Direcway finally let me in later in the day.
> For a high-performance
> snow tire I would go with the Nokian WR's. The
> perform in the dry better
> than the Blizzak LM-22's which is Bridgestone's
> 'performance' snow tire but
> they perform as good or better than the WS-50's in
> the snow. I was extremely
> impressed this past week with them on my 540.
> 
> The Nokian RSI's kicked the WR's ass in the snow but
> they are definitely not
> performance tires in the dry.
> 
> 
> Paul L Fisher
> 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Ron Porter
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:32 PM
> To: Shotimes; V8List SHO; SHO Tech
> Subject: [Shotimes] (OT) Hankook Icebear W300 tires?
> 
> I'm picking up a set of these tonight for a good
> price off Craigslist:
> 
>
http://www.1010tires.com/tire.asp?tirebrand=Hankook&tiremodel=Icebear+W300
> 
>
http://www.hankooktireusa.com/products_view_info.asp?Item_ID=28&CatID=6
> 
> They sound pretty good WRT construction. I was going
> to go with Blizzak
> WS-50s, as the other performance-type snow tires
> seem to admit (in their
> marketing stuff) that you sacrifice a bit of snow
> performance to get the
> higher speed ratings. These look good with the
> different inner & outer tread
> patterns (much like the Michelin Pilot Exalto PE2s
> that I run in the
> summer), as well as the silica construction.
> 
> http://www.snowtire.info/ doesn't even have anything
> on them (on a side
> note, I saw your two reviews, Paul F.!!).
> 
> Anyone have any experience with these, or know
> anyone who has??
> 
> Ron
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