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All-season tires year-round, or A/S for winter and summer for spring-fall? Help!
Alright, so here is the deal. My Spec is getting new rims soon, and I have 2 issues that I am looking to settle. The first is whether to go with 2 sets of rims and tires- one for 3-season and one for winter, or whether to just find good all-season tires and run them year-round. The first thought is to run all-seasons, because it frees up a set of rims to run if I ever get the balls (and the time) to auto-cross. I have summer-only tires (half tread remaining) on the Spec now, and I have the $ to buy all-season tires for the new rims, to this seems like a good way to go. My only concern is running my new rims in salt conditions in the winter. ALSO, my new job is at the top of a mountain, and I HAVE to be there. I do, however, have a 4x4 truck to drive if the weather is really nasty- it just costs me $17 a trip in gas…
My other thought is to run a set of all-season tires that I have in my basement, just for the winter. I have 3 (and could cheaply buy a 4th) and could run them on my stock rims, and then could run good 3-season tires on my custom rims for most of the year. This would not let me auto-X w/o another set of rims, unless I wanted to run on my daily-driving tires. Also, the size is a little taller than I want to run, but I could live with them, I suppose. They are a 215-50-17; I need/want a 215-45-17.
Most of me says buy good all-season tires and run them year-round on the custom rims and be happy. My wife also subscribes to this idea. My only fear is that all-season tires will not be enough to get me around in the snow this winter. The road to my work IS the first one in the area that is plowed, however, and I do still have the truck.
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