Ajax
15+ Year Contributor
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- Nov 13, 2003
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Sioux Center,
Iowa
We are allowed to run studded tires in Iowa from Nov to Feb I believe.
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Called around to several tire shops today. All claim the RSi is being discontinued. Supposedly the Nokian R is taking its place. Anyways, got some very nice Evo 8 Enkei rims to put some snow tires on. Had one place get back with me about the RSi. For 225/50 I was quoted $225 per tire! Probably will have to look into the cheaper Graspic tires (seeing them currently @ $111).
eclipsh said:I tried my old ASX tires in a little snow and they are worthless compared to snow tires. I don't know any tire shops that will sipe used tires either and I suspect it is for a good reason.
I searched and found a few useful posts, but most of them are older. I thought I'd throw this back out for more timely info.
Just like everyone else here, I'd guess, I want the most out of my car year round. I've driven for years on high performance all season tires, right now Kumho Ecsta ASX. I like them, they have decent tread life and dry grip, but I know I give up a little warm weather performance in the summer and a lot of cold/snow/ice performance in the winter by doing this. I now have 2 sets of rims, and I think I would like to go to dedicated summer and winter sets. This will of course allow me to swap over if the weather is good, but I don't see myself doing that every other week to keep up with the forecast. However, I don't want to give away the farm handling-wise with the winter set, and would probably not run them at all if handling goes totally in the crapper.
It's a given that snow tires will make a difference in snow/ice driving. That's all well and good, but during the other 95% of the time when it's dry, is it annoying to have winter tires on?
Does anyone have experience with a "performance winter" tire that's actually good? Or are those terms mutually exclusive? Is spending $$ for anything other than a utilitarian winter tire a waste?
Any input is appreciated!