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[ANON]

I suspect it's more down to the fact a 10" tyre has a much taller profile than a 12", so that would help in snow. 

 

 

 

eh? care to expand on that?

[HarrysMini]

 

You can tell those tyres are good snow tyres not because of the chunky tread, but because it has the clearing 'spoons' along the sides, where snow can travel out and the tyre can self clean. This is what makes the 032Rs relatively good in snow, because they share that property, unlike the 008s.
 
The same thing applies for rain.

Are we talking the same a032rs?

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These don't have any snow clearing tread. They are a road legal slick, a summer track day tyre. The compound is listed as soft. They are not a winter tyre. It is irrelevant anyway as they are for 10s. But as said above by myself and others, for an all year round tyre the a539 is the tyre to go for. The 12" a032r equivalent is the a048r which is so bad in the snow as to be dangerous in my on road experience.

 

All I mean is the tread is cut out to the side (aqua jets, I believe they are called) so snow/water can clear out and not clog the tread (as exactly what happens in 008s (not 539s though)

[HarrysMini]

 

I suspect it's more down to the fact a 10" tyre has a much taller profile than a 12", so that would help in snow. 

 

 

 

eh? care to expand on that?

 

Taller profile tyres are better in snow than low profile tyres. I thought that was commonly known?

[ANON]

 

 

I suspect it's more down to the fact a 10" tyre has a much taller profile than a 12", so that would help in snow. 

 

 

 

eh? care to expand on that?

 

Taller profile tyres are better in snow than low profile tyres. I thought that was commonly known?

 

 

 

you're talking about 5-6mm of difference in sidewall height, no one would be able to tell any difference with such a small amount IF there was any to be felt.