Questions-About-Winter-Tyre-Answered

Most Sweden cars are fitted with summer tyres, and some with all-weather tyres. But winter tyres are designed specifically to give you extra grip in cold temperatures and when driving on snow and ice. The key differences are as follows:

They use a softer rubber compound.
The surface of the tread blocks is covered with little jagged slits – called sipes,
They generally have deeper tread grooves than a conventional summer tyre.

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