One of the key factors about snow tires is the width. If you have skinny tires, your applying the same force to a smaller area, therefore increasing the pressure applied to the slippery road. You can either increase the weight of your vechile (old sandbag trick) or get skinnier tires.
I live in the UP of michigan, It hasn't stopped snowing for the past 4 days. We get a ton of the white stuff. last year, I drove around in a 92 hatch, pretty much stripped, (2080lbs when light on gas) with Tein HA's (lowered slightly) with 185/60/14 blizzak WS50's. I could get through anything, no matter how steep the hill was, how deep the snow, I would just cut through. Well now I drive a 92 prelude, that probally weighs in at 2900lbs, so technically, I should be able to do better in the snow. I had my dad order the tires from his tire guy downstate. Well turns out he didn't listen to my requests and bought a 205/55/15 tire for my prelude in Some dunlop snow tires (forgot the name of the model) They are useless. I really dont think its the actual tire, its just the size. They are SUPER wide so I bearly get traction anywhere. It sucks.
Anyone want to buy some snow tires lol?