studded tires

hi there
if i put studded tires on my car for the winter is better then having just snows on i live in sussex nj. we get alot of ice and snow here i would hate to not to use the car for the whole winter no garage
any ??? thank you scott

Studded tires will help a lot and throw a couple sandbags in the back tub for a little added weight and you wont have any traction problems..

I heard that in trucks sandbags help, but in cars and smaller vehicles that it will weight down the back and just give it more weight to swing back and forth with. I think bags with the tires would be fine, but it's only what i've heard from another older post on here. Like the rear extra weight would help stopping and going traction, but if you lose it turning that you just have more weight to swing that would mean more weight to battle with if you slide. I don't remember but it was on another post me thinks.

You should look and see if you can use studded tires. Those and tire chains arent legal for use on the road in alot of places because they can tear up the streets. Get some skinny winter tires and you should be ok.

I used a buncha sand bags and a coupel salt bags in my trunk this winter and was fine... although im starting to suspect this as being a culprit in my springs and shocks dying this spring. Helped wieght distrobution tho... and with a lighter car losing traction in my experiance it can get flung around quicker, while with more wieght it was more to help keep it planted.

get cement bags from home depot like 60-80lbs for $2

Has anyone here actually used studded tires?
They are intended for REALLY northern areas where roads are regularly not plowed and you actually drive on hardpacked snow most of the time for 6 months.

What you get in NJ is not real snow, its just a bit of inconvenience for about 3 weeks in January.
Studded tires have a lifespan of about 2000 miles on paved roads with no snow.
Do you want to put on new tires every 2000 miles?

ive used em'.. are winters are a hell of a lot more than 3 weeks of inconvienience.. usually 3 or 4 months of snow.. and they dont plow all the roads in the city on a regular basis just the main ones.. some of them get bad..

man this past nj winter, you can NOT call that not real snow, it was months not weeks of inconveinence and inability to go palces

I wouldn't even want to take the chance of driving on snow or ice with mine. thats why I went and bought a piece of shit 4x4.

thank you guys on some good points but what do they mean on thin tires i think i got 235-50-16

thin would be liek under 200, 190's or so. thats thin, liek my dads car haha