Review on Nokian Tires Hakkapeliitta 9 185/65 R15 92T winter by Franciszka Kucharska ᠌

Name: Nokian Tires Hakkapeliitta 9 185/65 R15 92T winter
Item: Nokian Tires Hakkapeliitta 9 185/65 R15 92T winter
Rating: 3

May 26, 2023

Not particularly happy with it, but it's mostly okay.

I took it a month ago on MB W212, rear-wheel drive, 245/45/R/Di17". I took it only because of uncleaned and icy yards, I took it along with disks, because 18" is harsh on an amgash suspension in winter. This is the first studded tires in my life. I skated 2.5 seasons on ContiWinterContact TS850P - European winter Velcro, cursed all uncleaned yards and parking lots in residential areas and uncleaned tracks. He met, dug out, pushed, rode out with chains. I thought I'd take Haku9 and the situation would change globally - but no, it really only got better by 20-25%, and in some aspects even worse. Drove 1000km on all possible road conditions. ABS and ESP are almost always working, only less. The only plus of this rubber, like any spikes, is ice and ice under the snow and a short braking distance on these surfaces. That's it, there are no more pluses and I will never take spikes again, only toothy Scandinavian Velcro. In the city, driving on clean roads and on a clean highway is impossible and unpleasant. This rubber does not cost 14 per cylinder, it costs 10 for a red tire. I watched Haku 8 and did not take it because of the even greater rumble, because there are more spikes, but it can get out of the snow and ice parking lot more real. Spikes are only on clean ice, but where do we have constantly clean ice in Hong Kong and Hong Kong Region? During the night, all tracks are usually cleared . Outwardly, according to the drawing, I wanted to take BridgeStone Spike02 spikes, they are cheaper and visually row better in the snow, but they didn’t have my size .

Regular cutting

Pros

Handling and behavior on dry pavement Can be driven in winter

Cons

Grinds and ABS on wet and damp pavement, sometimes even on dry. Very noisy on a cleared highway and city roads, at speeds above 60 it rumbles like in a jet plane, although I drive along a good new highway. Understeer in snow-covered and snow-rolled corners, especially in 90-degree corners with a freshly fallen thick layer of powder snow Poor rowing in snow-covered adjacent territories and yards, stuck-digged-pushed. because it does not have toothy shoulder notches in the plane of transition from the contact area to the sidewall, the shoulder protectors are too nondescript and are made tangentially to the center, and not at an aggressive angle, apparently for better handling and less cross-country ability In yards on ice under snow or on black and gray ice, ABS is a little less than a good Velcro, but it doesn’t matter - the speed is snail’s ABS on packed snow and just in snow, but not much, less Velcro On ice, too, ABS, but less Velcro The braking distance on asphalt is longer, you need to be careful in front of pedestrians On the rear-wheel drive, the poor controllability of the front wheels in skidding and turning is also strongly expressed, which gives a certain drift of the front axle, as in front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive, that is, it does not skid the rear, but the whole car seems to slide off the snowy turn trajectory. it is simply impossible to turn the front wheels to put the car on a trajectory, again, this is when there is a lot of snow and low speed