Review on Yokohama Ice Guard IG55 205/60 R16 96T winter by Franciszka Lewko ᠌

Name: Yokohama Ice Guard IG55 205/60 R16 96T winter
Item: Yokohama Ice Guard IG55 205/60 R16 96T winter
Rating: 4

May 26, 2023

I recommend to buy, the product is of high quality.

Would I buy it again? No
Somehow she is nothing. The middle peasant is neither in those nor in those, but at the same time it allows you to calmly move on any surfaces.

I recently switched to Pirelli Ice Zero2 - this is already a different division, where it always started off with slippage on the IG55, now there are no problems, it turns out that the car can slow down on ice and rolled snow (but the price tag on the Pirelli is no longer a cake), in all conditions it’s not checked, winter 2022-2022 was so-so winter. Another winter like this and I'll switch to Velcro.

In general, the IG55 option is not bad in terms of price and quality, but it seemed to me that its element is snow, as evidenced by the Scandinavian tread pattern and, oddly enough, dry asphalt.

Pros

The spikes are very tight. During the operation, there were slippage and braking on asphalt, I live in the Hong Kong Region, the operation of Hong Kong + Hong Kong Region - all the spikes are in place for 20k mileage. They row well, dug in, dug themselves out (a car on a stirrer, this is a big plus in winter for single-drive puzerok). Only once they helped to pull it out: last winter the car stood for two weeks, the snowfalls were such that I got into the car without raising my legs - it took a long time to get out, I broke the shovel. Everything is fine in terms of noise, I have a car without sound insulation, there are quieter options, but this one is on the level. Price (I took a set of 205-55-R16 for less than 12 thousand a few years ago). Feels great in cold weather, like everyone else in positive weather. The strength of the sidewalls could not be checked, I drive carefully and did not fly into the pits.

Cons

Rubber only for zbagoystviya on the roads. The total subjective score for movement on all surfaces except dry asphalt is 3 out of 5. On wet asphalt, braking is not ice, which prevails all year round in Hong Kong time. I remember changing to winter from summer, but I didn’t have time to change my driving style, I almost met the rear bumper, there was just wet cold asphalt under my feet. On dry pavement, everything is very good. Front-wheel drive, turn, rolled snow - you give a little gas and fly into a ditch :) Turns on such a surface on it pass strictly without gas and brakes if the speed is not calculated. But many rubbers sin with this, I didn’t have to ride on tops, maybe Khaki9 is OK, maybe I need a car with ESP, because. of the assistants now only ABS + ASR I won’t say that it’s completely hard, but it’s not soft either (the family has a machine on the BFGoodrich g-Force Stud - here it is soft and quiet! I recommend it for connoisseurs of silence and comfort)