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Originally Posted by kaishang
In the '70s were any people using snow tyres?
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No, they weren't - but then family hatchbacks didn't need tyres that could do 140mph for hours on end safely either!
My first car was a late 70's cortina - prob max'd out at just over a ton!
I fitted 185 wide tyres to it and thought they were wide at the time.
Rubber has now had to progress lots, mainly for performance reasons, and the newer wide rubber is cery poor at less than 7 deg C and the tread patterns are not designed to work with snow at all.
The winters however work well in winter but the compound of the rubber and the tread pattern mean that they will wear excessively fast if used in 'summer' conditions'
Bit like F1 cars, they have to use tyres that suit the conditions: the track has to be sufficiently wet enough to use the inters, and then has to be worse still to use the full-wets. If they used either in the dry then they would get destroyed quickly.
Our modern cars are comprised by having tyres that work VERY well in good-average weather conditions but meet their limits when the conditions get very bad.