All-Season Tires
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From: Denver
FWIW - I live in central Illinois, where the temps will be below 40 most of the time from mid-December through mid-March. I just bought my 2013 Carrera S Cabrio on Saturday, when we had an unusual run of 70-degree weather. On Monday, I'm having the Bridgestone RE980AS tires put on it to replace the Michelin PS4S tires. I'm 65 years old, not planning on tracking the car, and want to be able to drive it when it's dry and sunny in the winter (assuming no salt on the roads). Don't want to mess with either mounting summer/winter tires on the factory rims, or buying a new set of rims with winter tires and switching them out (and finding a place to store the ones not being used). For me, the Bridgestone AS tires make perfect sense. Even when I do "fun" driving in the summer on the backroads (probably in the Ozark mountains in SW Missouri or up in Wisconsin lake country), I won't be pushing the Bridgestones. I had these tires on a BMW after ditching the summer run-flats, and was very happy with them. Major improvement in tread life is another benefit, as is the reasonable price. If I planned to routinely take the car to its limit, I'd use a winter/summer setup, but I won't, so that's that. And we have a BMW X5 for when the weather truly sucks, which is often in the winter here.
John C.
John C.
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From: Bend, OR
I had a track day at Oregon Raceway Park in central OR in early Nov. Temps were too low (just above freezing) to trust driving on the PZeros to the track so I put on my winter wheels/tires which are Bridgestone Potenza RE980AS. They did great on track. The air temp was in mid-40s. I beat my prior best lap time achieved weeks earlier when running PZeros on a moderate temp day. I'm now wondering if I can beat my new best time with PZero or Michelin summer tires when track opens again next spring.
