{"id":4283,"date":"2013-02-20T17:39:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2016-03-18T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T15:15:38","slug":"all-season-tyre-review-hankook-ra10-part-2-winter-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4283","title":{"rendered":"All-Season Tyre Review: Hankook RA10 (Part 2 – Winter, Snow)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hankook RA10 All-Season Tyre<\/p><\/div>\n

Disclosure:\u00a0I paid for these tyres myself and have no relationship\u00a0with the tyre manufacturer or the tyre supplier.<\/em><\/p>\n

Back in September, I reported on how I’d decided to put my money where my mouth was and replace the worn-out tyres on my van with a set of all-season tyres, rather than summer tyres.<\/p>\n

My reasoning was that for most of the year, the weather in northern England where I live is decidedly wintry, and certainly not warm or dry. In addition, I wanted to see if all-season tyres provide an advantage in snow and ice — whether they lived up to their billing as a good compromise between summer and winter tyres.<\/p>\n

I decided to go for a set of Hankook RA10 all-season tyres, a mid-range option. You can click here to see the first part of my review<\/a>, which covers summer and general impressions.<\/p>\n

Winter wonderland<\/h3>\n

Given the weather we’ve had this winter, I’ve now had a chance to try these tyres out in a wide range of conditions, including snow, ice and very wet conditions.<\/p>\n

Overall, the RA10s have lived up to my expectations, delivering better grip in cold and wet conditions, especially in snow and ice.<\/p>\n

They certainly aren’t as good as a set of winter tyres, but I don’t need them to be and I’m happy to compromise in order to use them all year round. To round off my review, I’ve compared them against the same criteria I used last summer, to see how they performed against my previous Goodyear Cargo summer tyres:<\/p>\n

How do they compare?<\/strong> I\u2019ve compared the Hankook RA10 tyres<\/a> to my previous Goodyear Cargo G26 tyres<\/a> below, after using them in a wide range of conditions this winter.<\/p>\n

Dry grip:\u00a0<\/strong>In colder conditions, the advantage of the all-season compound becomes more obvious.<\/p>\n

Wet grip:\u00a0<\/strong>The Hankooks definitely provide a better grip on cold, wet or frosty surfaces than the Goodyears.<\/p>\n

Snow & Ice:\u00a0<\/strong>A clear improvement — there’s definitely more grip and a more confident feel. I haven’t got stuck and the impression I get is that they sit nicely between summer and winter tyres in terms of grip, as you’d expect.<\/p>\n

Noise:\u00a0<\/strong>The Hankook’s remain noiser than my Goodyear tyres were, although perhaps less so in cold weather.<\/p>\n

Fuel consumption:\u00a0<\/strong>No noticeable difference.<\/p>\n

Wear:\u00a0<\/strong>Too early to say. As always, keeping them correctly inflated and cornering sensibly will help prolong tyre life.<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/h3>\n

Overall, I’m happy with my switch to all-season tyres and intend to continue using them in the future. Wet weather and snow\/ice performance is definitely better, and everything else is roughly the same or good enough — which seems like a fair swap to me.<\/p>\n

I don’t expect them to last quite as long as good quality summer tyres, but this isn’t necessarily a problem unless you do high mileages.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Am I talking rubbish or are you a fan too? Leave a comment to let me know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part 2 of my review of a set of Hankook RA10 all-season tyres looks at their performance on my van during the winter months, including snow and ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,8],"tags":[1662,385,1573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8520,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/8520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}