Hey all just wanted to give everybody and anybody interested a personal review/ opinion of the Bridgstone Blizzak LM-22 series high performance winter tire. These are on an '03 Acura RSX Type S, in OEM size. (205/55/R16) The cost was $133 per tire with mounting and balancing.

They are supposed to be a winter tire that maintains dry weather standards, as well as bettering cornering stability, hydroplaning resistance, wet traction/handling etc. for a truely snow/ice dedicated tire. They were just mounted on the car yesterday (Saturday) and it was completely dry out. They are only slightly louder believe it or not over the stock Michelin's. Although we didn't drive it too aggressively to be able to really see how they perform when taken to higher extremes around corners, the ride quality doesn't appear to be in any way significantly lessened. Update, will be more on dry weather performance when time and conditions allow.

The following day, today (Sunday), it started snowing and are expecting anywhere from 8-12+ inches by Monday morn. We took the car out around 2 pm with completely snow-covered roads with approximately 4-5 inches on the ground. We drove about 10 miles. The tires performed very well, loosing grip maybe only 3 or 4 times, only for maybe a second or two quickly regaining, and only because I gave more throttle at too high of RPM's. Shifted up a gear or two maintained lower RPM's hence less torque to the wheels and experienced absolutely no problems whatsoever for the remainder of the trip.

Generally we're pleased with the choice in tire. According to reviews the new Dunlop WinterSport M3 snow tires are the best out there and for a lesser price. Unfortunately when doing a search on TireRack.com they didn't even have the OEM size for that tire. Will suffice for our needs.

 

I'm getting some WS-50s on Saturday if NTB has them in stock. I will take them to work and mount and balance them. If I hear it is going to snow I'll put them on my car and try them out.

 

Been rocking the Blizzacks when they first came out, I like not having to restud the tires every couple years

 

My dad bought a set of the Dunlop Wintersports for his TT in 225/45-17 and a set of wheels to go with them, over winter break I'll have a chance to check em out. I've driven the car with its Dunlop RE040 summer tires on it so I have a good sense of how it's supposed to feel.

 

Yeah well. Since this threads original posting it has started to sleet, simply sleet. So now what has happened is it snowed 5 inches, rained for half hour then all froze cuz of sleet. These are just about the worst conditions possible.

So we just tried driving from my house to Jens, about a 7 minute drive in normal conditions. Even for my car which I can basically take through any snow conditions, wasn't fairing too well. The RSXs' wheels were spinning...tons.

What I have noticed about the tires just walking around the tracks of the tires...and I dodn't know if its simply cause its such a potent ICE/SNOW/SLUSH mixture but.... on the center directional portion of the tire snow/ice is building up in the tread and when it drives, the track thats left only shows the side tread leaving a mark. The center is blank as though there was no center tread.

I'm sure this is due to the conditions...but so to no avail, we turned around and came back to my house.

 

Winter tires are designed to pack snow/ice/slush (basically any frozen stuff) into the tread because frozen stuff is actually better at sticking to other frozen stuff than rubber is.

 

Werd. It's cohesion I guess.

My car has Kumho 712s on it and I can get around OK in the snow but its really the ice that kills me because my wheels spin and its just rubber on ice and there is no grip. I bet with snow or some crap packed on them it would be a lot better.

 

Well we still haven't had a real snowfall yet to truly test out our M3's but in what little we have gotten they've been great. Now if I can just get a device to move people out of my way.........

Good review of the tires Honda Pilot!!