Originally Posted by jdcolombo

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.

Originally Posted by Quadcammer

Lol what is this nonsense now?