Review on MICHELIN X-Ice North 4 205/55 R16 94T winter by Anastazja Kwiatkowsk ᠌

1. Quality and strength of spike cores! It's just awful and the biggest MINUS! 2. The noise from the rubber is still present, no matter how they praised it! As for the noise reproduced by these tires, as many write, nothing is heard, quieter than summer tires, I will say this: either these people have a hearing problem, or very loud music in the car. Tires are heard and very well, of course, the sound is not like that of a helicopter taking off, but the fact that the studded rubber is clearly audible, and not like "cat's claws", but like the sound of an ordinary spike! If someone changes their seat from Velcro, they will be shocked . And now the most important thing! As a result, I drove on this rubber for a little less than 3 weeks, on March 6 I put on my shoes, and on March 25 I already took it off. With a "pensioner" driving style of 40-60 km / h, only in the city, the mileage was only a little over 300 km. After reading reviews about the bummer of spikes in the X-Ice North 3 generation, I thought that this would bypass the new generation, but alas! And when I saw what happened to the spikes, I was just disappointed. All studs are 100% in place, the stud shell is a bit rusty but that's ok! And now the whole point is that about 20% of the spikes on each tire began not to completely break off, but simply crumble, i. E. on many there were chips, and very noticeable. In order not to be unfounded, I will attach a photo of the spikes. When my wife saw the condition of the thorns, she said that this condition was in 2 weeks? And what will be the season? It is possible that I came across a defective batch of spikes, but I have never seen anything like this even on Cordiants, where the spikes simply wore out evenly or riveted in the form of a nail head, but never chipped or broke!