How wide tires affect overall performance

Originally Posted by raymondo510 Could you maybe elaborate on that, im just curious as to how it hurts your handling. With snow tires you want a smaller footprint because that

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Originally Posted by raymondo510

Could you maybe elaborate on that, im just curious as to how it hurts your handling.

With snow tires you want a smaller footprint because that means the tires have to displace less snow. Hence, snow tires are typically quite narrow. A wide tire with a larger footprint has more to displace, which means the more snow, the more likely you are to loose traction.

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