 Welcome back to the channel everyone. My name is Earl Glantz, shot foreman here at Township Chevrolet and new year so we're gonna do some new videos, gonna revisit some of our older to older topics and kind of go over some of that old stuff again. So this week we're gonna decide whether or not you need winter tire. Stay tuned, roll the intro. So in front of me here I've got two tires roughly around the same size. I got one all-season tire and I've got a winter tire. So basically just want to go through and show you the difference between the two. Go through some of the benefits and pros and cons to each one and then you can make an informed decision on whether or not you think you need to get winter tires for the winter months and also we'll just dabble on talking about studs a little bit too and decide whether or not that's something you're interested in. So over here we've got a all-season tire. You'll notice you've got some real deep grooves going straight down the tread of the tire and that's to improve straight stability or straight driving stability at high speeds. You've got a lot of rubber compound here, a lot of contact patch. You've also got there's a few little water spikes but you know to help channel the water away in the wet driving as well. The tread depth isn't real deep even on the brand new tire and you've got two wide strips here on both on the outside of the tire and that's there for cornering. That's to offer a lot of grip on corners. So these tires are designed the compound to be really sticky when you're driving in higher temperatures and dry in wet weather. They're great for handling. Normally the sidewall is usually really stiff on them. They're a really hard kind of hard compound tire to give you a good driving feel and also to keep you planted when you're cornering. So it's more towards a performance kind of handling tire than obviously the winter tire is. So that's kind of your all-season tire and that's kind of generally the way it looks. So we come over to our winter tire here. You can see a few things right off the bat. Number one you've got a lot deeper tread on the winter tire as well. You've also got a lot of these zig-zags and water spikes through the through each part of the tread and I can actually take those and kind of spread those apart. And those are to offer as you turn the tires those offer grips. You've got all those edges that help grip the snow and the ice and help you get moving. You've also got a directional tread pattern here which helps channel the slush and the snow out to the sides which is great. You've also even in the tread pattern itself you can see there's actually grooves and stuff cut into the tread. You're gonna get a compound this tire compound is designed to maintain its flexibility in cold temperatures. Where the colder this tire gets the less flexibility you're gonna have the less grip. This tire here however the more you the colder it gets it maintains that flexibility and that flexibility is gonna gonna really help with the grip on these edges. Usually the winter tires too most people get a bigger sidewall tire. A lot of the time you'll see a car come with let's say a 20 inch tire for your summer wheels and they'll get winter wheels and they'll go to a 70 inch tire so you've got a taller sidewall in there as well. So you're gonna lose a bit of handling on the tires as well from cornering. You got that sidewall flex. Another thing to keep in mind and consider too when you're getting winter tires is these tend to be noisier. The tread pattern with all these edges that grip and the deeper treads and the deeper lugs they're gonna cause more noise. So you're gonna get that kind of roaring down the road like a tractor trailer when you're driving and that for the most part is kind of a normal thing. If you get a lot of that noise you could have an issue with alignment you could have an issue with a tire bounce but for the most part this tire will be noisier than this tire driving down the road and it's just the design of the tire. You can see this tire here also has the spots for the studs. Now studs are only there designed to help with traction on ice so if you don't drive in a lot of icy conditions then maybe studs aren't for you. Another thing to consider too is studs actually offer less traction on clear roads so if you're that kind of person that stays home or you work in a position where you know your your place of business closes a lot when the weather's bad and you don't reopen again till the roads are all cleared well then you know studs probably aren't the answer but if you're you know police officer fire person a nurse or you're working a spot where you know it never closes you know maybe studs or something you want to consider. So that's kind of the main differences between these between your all-season your winter tires. Winter tires obviously you know offer more traction in winter driving but they're not as good in the in the summer months same goes for your all-season tires. You can buy strictly summer tires which are even a step above these when it comes to summer driving. They're grippier, they're softer compound, they have even more rubber contact so the all-season just offers it doesn't do anything great but it does everything decent enough where this here is going to be your best bet come the winter time. Another thing to consider too used to be years ago if you put a couple winter tires on the back or the front of the car and they'd run two all seasons. The tire companies, insurance companies, technicians we all recommend you do four tires if you're going to go with winters. You keep four the same tire and you want to keep something the same tread pattern preferably. Obviously if you got two tires that are worn out and you're replacing just two you want to keep with the closest tread pattern you can and that'll keep the best stability driving on the road. So that's been it for tires and winter tires. Any questions or comments, concerns just drop them down below and stay tuned to the channel and we're going to put a lot of content for you. Thanks.