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I was all on board to just getting some All Seasons. But after researching how easy it is to switch wheels at home and with Tsportline selling a ready to install kit, gonna just switch to having a second set.
I don’t know where you’re located but I’ve been switching snows myself for decades.
I look at it like this. The only extra cost in the long run is rims.
You will use up all the rubber you put on the car. You save your summer tires while your winter tires are on.
You can have better tires in summer for summer too.
If snows save you one tiny fender bender they pay back huge.
It’s more fun to drive with snows.
I always run larger sidewalls for snows. Potholes are just as much trouble as snow. You will protect your better rims from getting bent or eaten by salt.
Cars need snows in snow no matter what. I had my first AWD Audi Quattro. I took it up our get away which was north 120 miles. There was 6” of snow in a long gravel driveway. I could not get up the slight incline driveway.
The following month. I had snows with a foot of snow. It was a tank.
Few years later I had a FWD with snows and there was like 30” of snow. It was a grand am. It did so well my biggest problem was I could not see. It plowed UNDER the snow went up the hood onto the windshield and right over the back. Like a puppy on his first snow. Once I got to the house and in the garage I opened the hood. The engine compartment was packed to the brim with snow.
I buy snows even on a Jeep that came with all terrain tires.
I almost always buy Nokian’s. They are expensive but they last forever. My wife’s Passat had 227k miles. It still had the original snows. 11 seasons. Had to replace steel rims ones because they were to rusty.
I rotate my tires when I switch snows. Twice a year regardless of what mileage I’m at. Keeps things simple.
