jeffro01
Active Member
I can not emphasize enough that anyone who tells you that M+S and AWD will make you safe in the mountains isn't giving you advice. M+S can very from kind of ok to absolutely a death trap, Never good.
And AWD does absolutely nothing for you when using the brakes.
Every cars traction depends on the rubber hitting the road. No what some "local" on a forum suggest that won't be there when you get into trouble.
From some non local on a forum [emoji19]
I know how to drive in ice\snow and understand completely what AWD does, and doesn't, do for you. I have never lived in a climate where I needed winter tires as "all season" was "fine" and from what I can tell the tires on my S90D are M+S, which again, should be just fine if you know what you're doing. My only question is whether or not in CA, on US 50 to South Lake Tahoe, in the chain control areas does CHP enforce to the letter of the law\sign? I'm not buying chains for ONE yearly trip during the winter to SLT if I don't absolutely have to.
Jeff