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11-17-2014, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by chuck911

Sounds like you got a good deal there, but for your exact question, cold weather no snow, there really are no good reasons for changing tires at all. No, summer tires won't grip as well cold as hot. But they will vastly outperform winter tires on dry pavement no matter how cold it gets. In the wet too for the most part. Winter tires are for slush, snow and ice. Period. that's why drcollie has the right approach, store em until you really need em.

Yeah I'm going to have to disagree here as well, in my experience (Toronto) summer tires turn rock hard below 7C/45F and there is noticeably less traction in cold weather. When it is cold/dry there is significantly more grip using winter tires vs summers. Not to mention when it is cold/wet... the thought of a rear drive vehicle in our winters with summer tires is scary at best.

Even if we got zero snow I'd still switch over every year...

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