Premium VS Budget Winter Tyres

Dry Braking▲Tristar SnowPower 2: 28.74 M▼Nokian WR Snowproof: 28.87 M
Dry Handling▲Nokian WR Snowproof: 51.27 s▼Tristar SnowPower 2: 51.57 s
Wet Braking▲Nokian WR Snowproof: 31.76 M▼Tristar SnowPower 2: 35.27 M
Wet Handling▲Nokian WR Snowproof: 37.6 s▼Tristar SnowPower 2: 38.2 s
Snow Braking▲Nokian WR Snowproof: 36 M▼Tristar SnowPower 2: 43.9 M
Snow Handling▲Nokian WR Snowproof: 097.2 s▼Tristar SnowPower 2: 104.5 s
Are cheap winter tyres safe? To find out, we travelled to Finland, twice, to do snow, ice, wet and dry testing.

All tests were done using two cars, a VW Golf wearing 205/55 R16 tyres, and a heavier, larger Volvo S90 fitted with 245/45 R18 tyres.

To see how the testing went, watch the video below!

Dry

Wet

Snow

Results

View Results as a single table and adjust the score weighting

1st: Nokian WR Snowproof

Nokian WR Snowproof
  • 205/55 R16
Test#Difference%
Dry Braking2nd+0.13 M99.55%
Dry Handling1st100%
Wet Braking1st100%
Wet Handling1st100%
Snow Braking1st100%
Snow Handling1st100%
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2nd: Tristar SnowPower 2

Tristar SnowPower 2
  • 205/55 R16
Test#Difference%
Dry Braking1st100%
Dry Handling2nd+0.3 s99.42%
Wet Braking2nd+3.51 M90.05%
Wet Handling2nd+0.6 s98.43%
Snow Braking2nd+7.9 M82%
Snow Handling2nd+7.3 s93.01%
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Published at November 9th, 2019, 1:56 pm, by Jonathan Benson.
Filed under: Group tyre tests, Winter Tyres

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