37chief
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Someone has 4 studded tires for sale. At a good price. Can the studs be pulled out. Then can the tire be good for dry street driving? Stan
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Steve A W
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Grab them with a pair of wire cutters and pry them out.
Yes.....grab each stud with a sidecutter and "roll" them out instead of pulling straight out. They have a flange on the back side, so they resist pulling straight out. When I worked for a Chev dealer in the 1960's, we had a pneumatic gun to shoot them into new tires one at a time.
Geo-TH,In
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Stan,
Then can the tire be good for dry street driving?
No Idea.
I haven't seen studded tires in Indiana in a long time.
If the tires look like snow tires, my guess is they will be noisy.
Noisy tires won't get the best MPG.
Then you have the expense of mounting and balancing.
I'm a tire barn fan. I'll only buy 70K Michelin tires for a comfortable ride, low noise, free rotation, balancing and road hazard. I got 90k on my last Michelins on truck.
Then can the tire be good for dry street driving?
No Idea.
I haven't seen studded tires in Indiana in a long time.
If the tires look like snow tires, my guess is they will be noisy.
Noisy tires won't get the best MPG.
Then you have the expense of mounting and balancing.
I'm a tire barn fan. I'll only buy 70K Michelin tires for a comfortable ride, low noise, free rotation, balancing and road hazard. I got 90k on my last Michelins on truck.
Yes they twist out. I drive only winter tires all year round but no studs. Tire where is minamal I get 65000 miles on a tire. There made of softer rubber but don?t wear down as fast as the nay sayers tell you. Been doing it now to 14 years. I live in Manitoba so we do get only a couple months of Texas weather so down south could be a whole different story
rustyfarmall
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Studded tires are no different from non-studded. Grab a pair of side cutters and pull those studs out. I've done it many times.
I'm going to call BS to the guys saying the tire studs come out easily while driving. I wore a set of studded tires out on my first car. Folks wore several sets out. My little V-8 Chevy Nova would spin those studded tires up 50-60 mph. I wore them down, but NEVER lost a single stud. When I pulled them so I could use the tires on my compact pickup I had to pull every single stud. Yes, tires have to be studded before they ever run on the street, stuff gets into the molded hole and they probably fly out. But I've NEVER had one come out. They are noisey, you have a piece of Tungsten-carbide hitting the pavement as your driving. Tire chains DO increase traction more than studs, but limit speed, pain to install & remove. A better alternative is a WINTER TIRE.
I had a pair of Firestone WinterForce tires, not studded, but a slightly softer than normal rubber tire that looks exactly like a Bridgestone BLIZZAK. Tire dealer told me the Winterforce was every bit as good a snow tire as a Blizzak but not quite as good on ice, but it lasted longer than the Blizzak. A perfect tire for my use. I drove about 120 all Interstate miles to/from work Daily on those tires. Used about 1/3rd of the tread depth in 11,000 miles. They would pull me thru snow that drug on the bottom of my car. Only needed to drive my 4wd F-250 when snow was over 5 inches deep which even in a winter with over 104 inches of snow was taking the 4wd truck two days.
Studs are good, great on ice, slushy sloppy roads I think a Winter tire like a Blizzak is much better. Studs and winter tires should last 30,000-35,000 miles. The last 2+ years I had my compact frt wheel drive car I ran the WinterForce tires on drive wheels full time, summer & winter. My Sister has/had Studded Blizzaks on her last 3 cars, they typically last her the life of the car.
I had a pair of Firestone WinterForce tires, not studded, but a slightly softer than normal rubber tire that looks exactly like a Bridgestone BLIZZAK. Tire dealer told me the Winterforce was every bit as good a snow tire as a Blizzak but not quite as good on ice, but it lasted longer than the Blizzak. A perfect tire for my use. I drove about 120 all Interstate miles to/from work Daily on those tires. Used about 1/3rd of the tread depth in 11,000 miles. They would pull me thru snow that drug on the bottom of my car. Only needed to drive my 4wd F-250 when snow was over 5 inches deep which even in a winter with over 104 inches of snow was taking the 4wd truck two days.
Studs are good, great on ice, slushy sloppy roads I think a Winter tire like a Blizzak is much better. Studs and winter tires should last 30,000-35,000 miles. The last 2+ years I had my compact frt wheel drive car I ran the WinterForce tires on drive wheels full time, summer & winter. My Sister has/had Studded Blizzaks on her last 3 cars, they typically last her the life of the car.
Not legal here. We tried them and within the first season, there was severe wear on pavement - especially at intersections. My experience was short tire life, studs came out of tires prematurely and in quantity. Very little increase in traction. Spinning tires just cut grooves in road surfaces and ice and snow. Not worth the trouble.
Ken Macfarlane
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Not a problem at all = takes more than an hour per tire to remove the studs, I've tried before and given up, easier to get another set of tires on kijiji/craigslist.
I've got 4 sets of studded tires at the moment between all our vehicles (and 3 sets of non-studded winters), what they do is help a really open snow tread type winter tire or an all-
terrain get some traction on ice or hard pack snow. The ice tread type winter tires work fine without studs but aren't much good in deeper snow and slush.
Isn't commonly mentioned but studded tires brake poorer on bare pavement, I'm assuming due to the studs holding rubber off the road. The only areas with road damage from
studs around here is concrete intersections, the wheel spin eats grooves. Asphalt doesn't last long enough to show any wear. Up in Quebec on the 116 concrete highway there
was 2-3" deep ruts at every set of lights from studs in the 1990's but the highway surface was something like 50 years old.
I've got 4 sets of studded tires at the moment between all our vehicles (and 3 sets of non-studded winters), what they do is help a really open snow tread type winter tire or an all-
terrain get some traction on ice or hard pack snow. The ice tread type winter tires work fine without studs but aren't much good in deeper snow and slush.
Isn't commonly mentioned but studded tires brake poorer on bare pavement, I'm assuming due to the studs holding rubber off the road. The only areas with road damage from
studs around here is concrete intersections, the wheel spin eats grooves. Asphalt doesn't last long enough to show any wear. Up in Quebec on the 116 concrete highway there
was 2-3" deep ruts at every set of lights from studs in the 1990's but the highway surface was something like 50 years old.
Eldon (WA)
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Let my wife drive it.....she knows how to get the studs out LOL!
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