Winter Tires Evaluation Guide for Savvy Internet Users by PMCtire.com
Article produced by the PMCtire.com team
This year again, in order to guide you in your search of the winter tire that best suits your needs, the PMCtire.com team is pleased to provide you some useful information along with its winter tire reviews.
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How to choose the right winter tire?
In addition to the fulfillment of regulatory requirements, it is important to find the right model of winter tire according to your type of car and your driving style.
In order to guide you in your choice, the PMCtire.com team tested most of the winter tires available on the Canadian market based on 10 specific check points. There are in overall 150 tested models of winter tires classified into 5 categories:
- Best winter tires for passenger vehicles
- Best winter high performance tires for passenger vehicles
- Best winter tires for SUVs and light trucks
- Best winter high performance tires for SUVs and light trucks
- Best winter tires for commercial vehicles
The main concerns over the evaluation was the tire’s durability, its traction on ice and on snow, its price, and its ability to offer a comfortable ride under the most extreme driving conditions.
To assess and to rank winter tires, the PMCtire.com team analyzed several sources of information, including road tests, chronicles by automotive journalists, several customer feedbacks and many consumer reviews from various Canadian forums or North American websites dedicated to automobiles. Obviously, the way tire performance is perceived may differ from one person to another, depending on his driving style, his expectations, and his experiences. You will also notice that the results are quite similar from one model to another. This is mainly due to the fact that the technologies used by manufacturers to design and to produce winter tires are often similar.