Wax for Canadian Winters?

Yes indeed, it's mandatory now, from November to April. Not sure about the dates, but taking them off before mid April is suicidal anyway.



This law didn't affect me, I always used winter tires that time of the year.



We are still allowed to used studded tires. That's what I have right now.



No tire dressing can last more than two days with those abrasives either. Good reason to deplete the old stuff.
 
skuz said:
Abrasives used on the road here are way too strong (and used in much too large quantity), no LSP I tried could ever get through the winter. It gets eaten through after at best 2 months. That record is held by Collinite 476.
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I have a 3 coats of collinite ( 1 of 845 and 2 of 476S) on my minivan and the best I can get out of them is 1.5 months. I use my minivan in a courier route and it sees a lot of highway salt and grit. The hood is the first to go, then the sides, and finally the roof. I put about 460 miles a day on the car and even rain-x which lasts about 2 weeks on my other car only goes about 4 days on my minivan. Usually 3 layers of collinite would last about 6 months on my cars but this courier route is murder on lsp's. Now I usually slap on another layer of 476S every month for protection.
 
3puttjay said:
I have a 3 coats of collinite ( 1 of 845 and 2 of 476S) on my minivan and the best I can get out of them is 1.5 months. I use my minivan in a courier route and it sees a lot of highway salt and grit. The hood is the first to go, then the sides, and finally the roof. I put about 460 miles a day on the car and even rain-x which lasts about 2 weeks on my other car only goes about 4 days on my minivan. Usually 3 layers of collinite would last about 6 months on my cars but this courier route is murder on lsp's. Now I usually slap on another layer of 476S every month for protection.
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IMO it sounds like the Colinites are doing great job

they are some extreme conditions
 
Those *are* some mighty awful conditions :eek: I think I'd lean towards some heavily layered sealant...KSG or FK1000P, much as I do like Collinite it could be overmatched there.



Sad state if affairs when the Govt. has to pass laws about common-sense stuff like winter tires. I don't like the legislation of such stuff but I'm pretty hard-nosed on the subject of proper tires; if you have a problem in the winter and you're not running appropriate tires, no sympathy from me. We even run 'em on the AWD vehicles and I don't need Big Brother telling me to do it. A friend of mine "hit black ice" recently...well, with some Blizzak WS-50s on there it wouldn't have mattered, and they'd have cost less than the insurance deductible.
 
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