so i had my mechanic throw on some new tires so that i could pass inspection...he put on nokian something or others and ive never heard of them.....comments? reviews? anyone ever heard of them before? how are they?

 

Never heard of them.

 

No. Not even in New Zealand. Made by Nokia? LOL

 

They look like a solid company...They appear to be more street oriented, but check out their M/T:


Got awesome reviews on offroaders.com.

What'd you pay for them?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokian_Tyres

 

I have a set of Nokian Hakkapeliitta winter tireson my Jimmy right now. I bought them used for $200 last year from a coworker. They were like new when I bought them, and I've put about 15k on them since. After running them year round, they are finally getting replaced this weekend. I would have bought them again, but new they run $125 a tire for 235/75/15. Ouch. I went with Firestone Winterforce tires from tirerack for $61 a tire ONLY because they were half as much. As far as performance, those Nokians were awesome. They were the best rain tire I ever had on the Jimmy, unbelievable in snow/ice. I don't think my abs kicked in once last year. I was very impressed with them. If they weren't so expensive, I would have bought them again.
I believe Nokian tires are made in Norway. If anybody knows how to make a good snow tire, you would think it would be the Norwegians.

 

Hello. This is my first post, and i'm norwegian so i will try to answer to my best.
Please note that im not perfect in my english

The non studded winter tyre Nokian Hakkapeliitta RSi came out a really close second place in a new test from Scandinavias largest automobile-organization, NAF. (norwegian organization).
The studded Nokian Hakkapeliitta came out in first place.
So the Nokian brand is a good brand.

It is not Norwegian brand though. Its from Finland.
And not all of Norway has snow in the winther
Where i live, on the west coast, near a city called Stavanger we had snow for 3 or 4 days last year.

But finland has lots of snow.

Great forum by the way!

 

im not sure what i paid for them, i dont have the bill yet, im assuming somewhere around 125 + or -....but its better than what i was going to pay for bfg's all terrain KO's at $140 a piece...that would ave been around 529ish for four tires...but like i said before, i had him put on tires, do an inspection, new ball joints and a transmission flush so the bill's going to be high anyway.