Thread: Snow tires, sizing question...

changing your stagger might affect your ESC, it does with Fords so it might with Hyundai's. Narrower tires are better for snow because they displace less allowing them to cut through, but that said, they are not so great on ice.. but then again.. nothing really is. Also make sure you're not changing your rotational distance so it doesn't mess up your speedo, newer Fords can be calibrated in their ECU for what tire size they have on and it adjusts the gauge accordingly, but again, I don't know if Hyundai's do this.
I didn't change size for winter, I just got Michelin X-ice XI2's OEM size for 18's. I looked really hard at the Blizzak's but only to find out that their winter effectiveness is only in half of the tread.. so once you hit 50% tread life it's no good in snow. Dunlops were out of my price range but I've heard good things about them.

I'm not entirely worried about the speedo as I have a calculator to figure the difference, and it's not much...sub 3% @ 60mph. I really want to have a separate set of rims/tires for the winter and not try to find winters in 19"'s have to go to a tire shop twice a year. I have a compressor and an impact, so I'm set to switch them easily.

What sort of effects do you think it would have on the DSC?

are those "winter" tires really beneficial for bad weather or is it just a gimmick?

If you have to drive in bad weather regularly like we do up here in New England, they are night and day. All season tires try to do two things at once...have the traction of summer tires, and the capability to get around in bad winter weather. The only problem is when they try to do both, they end up doing both worse than a dedicated summer or winter tire would. I've driven the RE050A's in the winter up here, and it's like driving on hockey pucks on just dry, cold roads.

yeah, Winter tires are designed to stay soft till -30c, All-Seasons are till -7c. They are also designed to move snow, unlike All-Seasons.
You might get more ECS action, it'll do that little power drain more often. On Mustangs I know it caused some really bad issues when you didn't update the ECU to the new tire specs and the ECS would randomly kick on try to brake while you were driving... cost one guy his trunk.. but that was Ford.. you'll have to check with a hyundai tech to know for sure or not.