A car with low profile tires is more likely to crash. Autoreview’s tire specialist and tester Oleg Rastegaev talked about this in an interview with socialbites.ca.
“As a rule, low-profile tires have wide-width tires. On a slippery winter surface in the form of snow porridge, this type of rubber has worse contact with the road, and therefore grip. It becomes more slippery than with normal tires and the car can skid. The car becomes uncontrollable and there is a chance to crash. On low-profile tires, the braking distance is longer, which must be taken into account when driving, ”said Rastegaev.
According to the expert, such tires also get damaged faster in winter than in summer. This is because the driver does not see the bumps and potholes hidden on the roads under the snow, which he usually drives around in the summer.
Earlier, tire specialist Sergey Mishin in an interview with socialbites.ca saidthat re-nailing can adversely affect the traction of winter tires, which could eventually lead to an accident.