I hope the third time's the charm. After a set of Dunlops and a set of Bridgestones, I bought the Yokohamas. They are quiet and I can really pull through the snow compared for the others.

My Bridgestones were so noisy and I had so little traction in this @#$!#$# snow that I was happy to use yet another flat tire as an excuse to ditch them in favor of a new set.

They were expensive, and the store stabbed me $20 to fill them with nitrogen (didn't even ask), but when I pulled out onto the slick street I didn't care.

 

This is my second winter on the Yokohama's and I like them. We got another 7" of light fluffy snow overnight and I did not bother to plow it this morning. I had no problems with them in my 450 feet of up hill driveway. Of course the streets were already plowed by the county so no problems on the slightly snow covered roads. We do not salt our roads here. We sometimes slightly salt approaches to intersections where necessary.

 

Same story here. Our drive is about 500 feet up a hill. For the first time this winter I had no problem. Didn't bother having it plowed out. We had about four inches last night. I am finding that I have just about ruined the piece that hangs under the bumper from scraping along deep snow. What are you going to do, though?

Cheers.

 

My hill is only about 10 feet over the 450 feet long drive. It is about 5 feet rise at the street and then another 5 feet at the house. The rest is all flat. My biggest problem is snow blowing in off of the adjoining fields and drifting over the driveway. When that happens the Fit is high centered with snow and it is not going anywhere. That is when the John Deere comes out to plow or we use our Z71 high clearance Colorado or one of our 4WD Blazers.

Spring is almost here. Maybe this the last of the snow for the year. We have had 24 days out of the last 2 months with below zero temps and only 3 days with above freezing since Jan 1. We have had officially 7 feet and 8 inches of snow this winter. I am tired of plowing all of this global warming.

 

Holy cow. That is a lot of snow. Don't know how much we've had (whatever weather you get we get a little earlier) but it hasn't been nearly that much. I can tell you all about getting high centered in the driveway or just sliding off of it. Hopefully the new tires will alleviate the problem.

I guess you get some of that lake effect snow, huh? I lived in Fort Wayne for a while and never got anything like that much snow. The winters were long, gray, and miserable, though.

Every year I tell myself I'm going to get winter tires and I don't. I want to get them mounted on separate wheels and am too lazy to go to a tire store or dealer to rejigger the TPS and too cheap to buy a [pretty expensive, if you ask me] gadget to do it myself. The whole process is much easier on our Accord. We can change wheels and reset the TPS ourselves.

Cheers.

 

I assume that you are in the Chicago area. The official total for Chicago Ohare is somewhere over 6 feet. We get the same thing plus lake effect snow every time it gets down around 0 and the wind is out of the north. We got 7"' yesterday and north county got 9". Here are a couple of pictures I took around Feb 16th:

That is my house in the background. It is 450 feet back there. The beige box on the right is 6 feet tall and contains phone company O to E, repeaters, and copper DSL interface equipment. There is a standby natural gas generator next to it that you can not see. Every time it snows a guy from the phone company shows up and digs it out by hand just enough to get to covers open and to uncover the generator.



Here is a random car going down my street.


Here is my neighbor's mail box. I have dug it out several times with my John Deere this winter. That is what the piles of snow are that you see behind it. This time we did not get enough snow for me to have to dig it out again.

 

What flavor of Yokohama's? Are these year-round tire or winter only? I'm asking because my Civics totally suck in the snow.

 

Mine are all-weather. Not winter.

 

What model Yokohamas?

Getting another set of wheels and I want tires on them that are decent in everything, including snow, and this is proof enough for me.

TIA

 

Mine are Yokohama Avid Ascend. They are all weather and not winter tires. I bought them because there were LRR (Low Rolling Resistance), long tread wear rated tires. Winter use was not really a consideration. Last winter I was really worried about them and they did fine. This winter they were fine also.

 

Thanks, will get them in an appropriate size shortly.

 

Thanks for sharing those beautiful pictures. We live far from Chicago, in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgottonia. We rarely get more than six or seven inches of snow at a time, but wind makes it tough to keep roads clear, even with a little snow.



I have been parking the Fit out by the road, 500 feet or so from the house, in case the drive drifts shut (No John Deere—I'm really a city boy).



It is hard to argue with the beauty of country life, but a good set of tires really helps get through the winter.



Cheers.

 

I am very familiar with your area. I had three clients on the Mississippi. I traveled frequently to Dallas City, to Nauvoo, to Keokuk, to Quincy, and to Hannibal. I can remember driving through blowing snow on US 24 and I-72 on several occasions.

Your weather is slightly warmer than mine but you still get the blowing plains snow off of the open fields. The only difference here is when we get cold north winds we can get additional localized heavy Lake Effect snow added to the normal plains stuff.

Thanks for the pictures.

 

I had Yoko Avid's and they were good tires. But when the snow came, it didn't have nearly the traction as my snow tires (non-studded Hankook i-cept). I keep two sets now--one set for 3 seasons and one set for winter.

Jealous of the snow pics. We usually get about 500", but we may have half that this year.

 

We had a few warm days and some of the snow melted off. I can finally see deer in my back yard again.
They also like Yokohamas.




This is a photo that I received from someone in Minnesota.... Enjoy!

 

So I've had these Yokohamas for a few months and I'm still really appreciating them. Picked up a screw in one of the tires and took it to be repaired. (We live in the country; I average two to three flats per year) The guy in the shop said the valve stem was broken and had to be replaced (along with the TPS sensor).

Hundred-dollar leak.

I had to return to the shop because the tech didn't read the new sensor into the computer correctly and the TPS warning light came on. In our new Accord, you can just reset the system from one of the screens. Different (and better) technology.

Guess it could have been worse—I could have needed the tire, too.

Cheers.