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Originally Posted by adam_u
...but if they're producing a reasonable amount of grip due to the tread pattern itself rather than due to the 'stickiness' of the rubber surely it could be a good 'club-tyre' compromise?
Would snow chains ever wear out running only on snow? (genuine question)
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No it sounds perfect to me anyway, i think it's great to have more tyres out there - the GRP's looked good but unfortunately they never quite broke the mass market, maybe these will - The key would be getting them in at a National!
Snow chains probably wouldn't wear, but they're not really gripping the same way a tyre would as they're metal for one thing so with the weight of the car they're physically digging into the surface of the snow, if you ran a Buggy with metal pins in the tyres on soft dirt and made the buggy heavy enough to push them in they obviously wouldn't wear out either, but a Rubber Tyre gripping on a surface has to wear out if it's gripping well - That's why TR32's and Full Spikes never wear out in wet mud as they physically dig into the ground to give grip, they're not sliding or using the compound to get traction but just the spike itself so it's a different sort of grip if that makes sense.