Was wondering about year round use of those tires; noise, how quickly
they wear.

  I have a pair of studded Hakke... and of course they do sound a bit
louder on dry pavement :)

Alistair

'82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/

On 20-Sep-05, at 8:29 AM, Mike Collum wrote:

I'm running 185 14 Nokian Hakkapeliitta CQ on one of my vans and C2 on
the other.  They're almost identical but one comes with the holes for
studs.

They have the load range ... agressive tread ... and, even though
they're winter tires, they wear well for year round use.  Granted, there
is a little more road noise with these treads but it isn't bad.  I live
in northern Maine and they do well in snow and on wet or dry pavement.

Mike
'84 GL 7 pass
'85 GL Westy