BFGOODRICH G FORCE COMP 2 SNOW DRIVERS
BFGOODRICH G FORCE COMP 2 SNOW FULL

No, they weren’t GTs, but the V6 model still sports 300 horses, so it could be worse. The next bit of the test was in a trio of 2015 Mustangs. 13 feet could be the difference between stopping just short of an accident and burying your front bumper into the back seat of the unsuspecting Hyundai ahead of you on the highway.

Sure, that’s not the only metric on which tires are measured, but it’s a pretty important one. It’s obvious that the deceleration grip on the BFG is superior to that of the Hankook. This is just from my section of 12 drivers, but the BFG stopped an average of 8.5 feet shorter than the Hankook in the wet, and an average of 13 feet shorter in the dry. So well, in fact, that I was told later by people who drove these BFG Audis at highway speed that the tires had actually turned on the rim after what amounts to literally hundreds of panic stops, and needed to be rebalanced.Īt the end of the day, the only thing that really matters in a test like this is the numbers. They gripped pretty well in these stopping tests. Where a lot of performance tires, including the ones I have on my daily driver, are a bit harder and less compliant on cold mornings like this, it didn’t seem like the BFGs lost anything in the cold. Its certainly indicative of early spring weather in the desert. It was a pretty chilly morning, and the fog was pretty thick. This test was interesting as it didn’t really feel like there was much difference between the two different sets of tires, but since we had the v-box measuring stopping distances for us, it was instantly apparent that we were stopping in shorter distances on the g-force Comp 2 A/S. Distances were measured with an on-board v-box. Braking was tested in both wet and dry from 50 miles per hour. First we were given a car shod with the BFG, and then we stepped into an identical car with Hankook’s Ventus Noble s1. My group was first up in the braking test section, and we were given a grouping of Audi A5s to test. Braking tests, a wet handling course, and a dry handling course. Is an all-season really going to be good enough to convince the tire-grinch? Test 1: Stopping DistanceĪfter a quick breakfast, everyone was split into three groups to separately evaluate the tire on a variety of cars in a variety of different disciplines.

BFGOODRICH G FORCE COMP 2 SNOW DRIVERS

Good tires could save your life, and more importantly, the lives of drivers around you. The average person will spend more time researching what kind of clothes dryer to purchase than the rubber donuts that hold their 3000 pound rolling vehicular manslaughter machines to the road. I am the worlds biggest tire geek, and do nothing but berate the type of mouth breathers that walk into a Tire Kingdom and ask “What do you have that’s cheap and fits my car? Cheap is more important than proper fit, mind you.” Those types of people include my parents, and that grates me to no end. I might well have been the worst person that Hooniverse could have sent to this event. So what is the point of this tire? Let’s find out together. Being in Arizona, the chances were quite low that we’d be testing them in any snow, even a light dusting, so that was out of the question, but really that’s not the point of this tire. I was curious to see if the ‘performance’ made them garbage in the cold or rain, and I wanted to see how they fared in warm dry conditions. So when BF Goodrich invited me out to test their new g-force Comp 2 A/S tire, I was eager to see whether or not the grip tradeoff would be worth it for moderate cold-weather use. I’ve always been a summer tire/winter tire guy, and I probably always will be.

I was, and remain, skeptical of the words “performance” and “all season” being used to describe the same tire. They flew me there, put me up in a posh room, fed me posh food, and gave me the opportunity to meet the infamous Judge Phil (but I won’t hold that against them).

BFGOODRICH G FORCE COMP 2 SNOW FULL

In the interest of full disclosure, BF Goodrich invited me to Phoenix to test some of their new round black things.

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