winter started my way 6 days ago and my thoughts so far on winter with the 3. Since Sunday it has been below freezing down to 8F and roads of fresh snow, packed snow, and straight clear ice with little contact with the asphalt. I have AWD and am running Nokian Hakkapeleta 9’s.
I turned regenerative breaking to low and think I’ll keep it that way all winter. The reason is even with the best winter tires going down hill when regen kicks in it isn’t controlled like ABS and the traction control seems confused. I could tell you will straight slide and without winter tires it would be highly uncontrollable. Also “chill” mode is my friend. It acts similar to a 2nd gear start and limits torque that is the enemy on winter roads
As for the tires. I’m a huge Nokian fan, I would never put another brand of winter tires on a vehicle. They are the safest and longest lasting. I’ve had Hakka 3,4,5,7 and now 9. The 9 is amazingly quiet although I will admit they were only on dry roads for 1 day. They have much less “stud tap” at low speeds than any other studded tire I have had before.
Overall so far I put similar to the three best winter cars we have owned: Subaru Legacy, Audi allroad (a6 version), and Mercedes e 4Matic.
I turned regenerative breaking to low and think I’ll keep it that way all winter. The reason is even with the best winter tires going down hill when regen kicks in it isn’t controlled like ABS and the traction control seems confused. I could tell you will straight slide and without winter tires it would be highly uncontrollable. Also “chill” mode is my friend. It acts similar to a 2nd gear start and limits torque that is the enemy on winter roads
As for the tires. I’m a huge Nokian fan, I would never put another brand of winter tires on a vehicle. They are the safest and longest lasting. I’ve had Hakka 3,4,5,7 and now 9. The 9 is amazingly quiet although I will admit they were only on dry roads for 1 day. They have much less “stud tap” at low speeds than any other studded tire I have had before.
Overall so far I put similar to the three best winter cars we have owned: Subaru Legacy, Audi allroad (a6 version), and Mercedes e 4Matic.