Pictured is me currently needing to switch my Tires out on both my Cars! Which do you folks use?
Couldn’t find the wheel lock?
Best to have one tire of each type so you’re prepared for anything.
So Winter, Summer and all-weather on the first 3 wheels, you reccon a wooden tire would work for the last open wheel or should I just leave that spot open?
Why waste money? Slap the donut on and you’re good.
I dunno… what if really hungry people go by while I go shopping…?
Don’t listen to this idiot, you clearly need an off road tire just in case.
Summers and winters for the SUV. Summers and barn for the nice car. Salt kills and all seasons are a compromise.
I’m lucky enough to not have to drive my fun car in inclimate weather which for sure includes winter.
My truck has all seasons but is 4wd so it’s ok. We do not live where the roads get/stayed covered in snow so there’s not a huge need for seasonal tires unless your using high performance tires that suck below 50°f
But 100% if you live where snow/ice is on the road for a large portion of winter, winter ties make a difference.
I currently have winter and summer. I think I’m going to go back to all weather (different than all season). They’re really decent enough and I don’t drive all that much (total km). Our weather is also bipolar.
Wait, there is a difference between All Weather and All Season Tires? I always thought they where the same
All-Season is the typical one you are thinking of.
All-Weather is winter rated that you can run all year, it meets the requirements for winter rating (that little snowflake in a mountain). There’s only a couple lines.
They made a marketing mistake having a name so similar to all season. They should have named it something else.
No no, you have to choose; tires for one type of weather but for every season, or tires for one specific season but all types of weather. /s
IMO there’s no such thing as all season tires (unless you live in a place where seasons don’t affect driving conditions much), only slightly-terrible-all-year tires.
This is a great method because your new set will be correctly aligned along that 5 point star! No need to get your tires aligned at the shop. :)
I prefer winter tires but you just never change them.
I did this with my first car and got 50,000km off a pair (on a VW Up). Frankly, if you don’t drive a lot like I did and need winter tires where you live, it’s a solid option.
Get Michelin Cross-Climate tires. They’ve got a really different tread design that makes them true All-Weather tires that aren’t dogshit in the snow and rain.
My cross climates are so quiet and worked so much better in the rain than the factory tires.
… Now I’m curious how you change the oil.
Gotta get some use out of my Vacume cleaner somehow…
U can also saw the oil pan off. Drains super quick.
You just keep filling until the old oil pours out.
Brilliant!
Pretty sure you have to flip it upside down so the oil dribbles out.
All weathers are untrustworthy. I simply can’t trust anything that claims to have equal effectiveness to specialist versions in such a wide swing as I deal with in my area. If your tires work well in 30°c they won’t work well at -40°c.
I’ve never seen any claim that winter-rated all-seasons work as well as winter tires (but there’s certainly a lack of making it clear how they’re different and when to use each).
Each manufacturer lists both, and lists the differences (including things like temperature ratings, traction ratings, etc).
It’s pretty clear from the traction ratings alone that a given brand of winter-rated all-seasons are quite different than their winter tire.
This is the way to get tires changed!
And we use summer/winter. My wife drives an EV and the low role resistance tires are crap on snow and ice. And I drive a sports car and I want the extra traction in nice weather.
I see. I’ve always heard that Allweathers kinda suck especially in the Winter
There are all weather’s that a great in all conditions but none of those have low roll resistance or great on a performance car.
It depends on your use. Until these two cars I rocked great all weather’s that were fantastic for those cars. But my Corvette doesn’t get so weather’s and my wife’s Ioniq 5 loses a ton of range with winter tires but needs winter tires in the winter.
All weather tires suck in all weather.
Sure they’re better than winter tires in summer, and summer tires in winter (if barely in both cases), but in reality they just suck.
Disagree, strongly. Modern high performance all seasons fucking rip. Michelin Pilot Sport A/S or Continental Extreme Contact are very good tires. They’re not as good as dedicated summer/winter tires but they’re very far from sucking. If you don’t deal with snow (inches of accumulation) then good all seasons are more than adequate.
Can vouch for those continentals
This is pretty spot on. And in order to get the summer tire rated performance, you’ll need to have the tire properly warmed up. You get close to advertised with UHP All seasons from cold or hot and everything in between. Once it gets below freezing it’s not such a high performing category, but unless you’re dealing with ice and snowfall it’ll outperform winter tires on asphalt or any paved surface really. Not to mention they’ll generally wear much better and be way quieter.
Don’t forget the Michelin CrossClimate 2 too!
Depends on the tire and the winter.
Places where winters are icy and long (NorthEast Coast/Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, etc), you want proper winter tires if you do any regular driving.
If you live somewhere winter has snow, but isn’t icy (plains, the non-mountain areas of WY, CO) you can get by on Winter-rated All-season tires, especially if you’re in a city where speeds are lower and roads are kept well-cleared.
It all depends on the usual conditions and where/when you drive. I work from home when it snows because it would waste a lot of time to drive in the snow. We only get a little at a time, and it clears quickly, so it’s not worth having full winter-only tires, winter-rated all-season are fine.
For extra traction during winter I just leave the tires and outer part of the rim off, and it works extremely well.
What the fuck dude
What? Do you not switch your tires like this? /s
What a world we live in where you need a /s on comments like this, lmao
Obviously you change your tires by cutting at the axle instead… rookie mistake.
Hah! Exactly
Also recommend slicks for maximum grip during the winter and summer!
more rubber on the ground = more grip /s
After switching to winter tires I can never go back. I got some summer tires to replace the all seasons I was using in summer time and they’re also amazing, but not as amazing as the winters in winter time.
Is the difference really this huge?
In the deep cold weather? Snow? Ice? Yes, absolutely. This is not opinion, this is fact.
Depends on the winter weather.
If there is a lot of snow, winter tires are far superior to all weather when driving in snow both for starting and stopping. Like being able to stop in half the distancenor move without spinning wheels.
I don’t think there is a huge difference for icy conditions.
I live in Kansas and we don’t get snow that lasts long enough to make winter tires worthwhile in my opinion, but if I lived in Colorado I would definitely get them.
Well I drive like a dingus and owning a Subaru I love driving out in the snow so to me it’s worth it. If you drive like a normal person and don’t purposefully go out in the snow then (good) all seasons are fine.
The ride is softer on both the summers (Pilot sport 4s) and sooo much softer on the winters (blizzaks) it also probably helps that my winters are on 17s when my summers are 18s. Grip in the snow is unreal with the winters too.
It depends on your location and particularly on how strong the seasons are at your place.
