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Neen · 11-01-2012, 12:34 PM

LRR seems counter-intuitive for a snow tire. The reason you have specific "snow" tires is that they have a higher coefficient of friction in wet/snowy conditions.

I'd rather be safe in winter driving conditions than gain 3% in FE but that's just me.

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