Yes, you are crazy.
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RWD and FWD cars handle the snow quite well with good snow tires. The reason they get such a bad rap is because people never get snow tires and just drive around on all season tires like idiots.
I don’t know about anyone else, but if the temp gets even up to like 50 I start to smell my winters burning away which always makes me feel like I am literally burning money. That alone makes me want to change to summers/all seasons as soon as possible.
It’s not so much the tread wear as it is the heat cycling. The rubber compound will get harder with each heat cycle. I have 8 year old winter tires that have a ton of tread but are garbage in the snow because the compound has turned hard. Think of a soft compound race tire — they heat cycle out and turn into rocks…
In Colorado they’re permitted year-round. I wish they’d just ban them though, you really do not need studs anymore, unless you’re doing something that would specifically need them, now that winter tires are as good as they are (like your Blizzaks).
Don’t you think that, if I had actually thought all winter tires were studded tires, I wouldn’t have used the term “studded tires” at all? I didn’t come here from Jezebel
Everything you just said only applies to WRX drivers.
The painted picture here is that as the air temperature rises, so does the asphalt you run on, which in turn puts more heat into the tires. So if your driving around on an 80 degree day with winter tires on compared to all season or summer tires then there will be a significant difference in stopping distances between…
How many times does someone run into repeated max braking panic stops in the real world?
I’ve also heard AWD turns you into a driving god.
AWD exempts you from the laws of physics. Everybody knows that.
Ha everyone knows you don’t waste your money on winter tires, you get AWD and the cheapest “all season” tires you can and drive around thinking AWD makes you invincible. And you do such a good job of convincing everyone of this your wonderful consumer advice makes it way to Southern California where people now believe…
Panic stops aren’t necessary to heat up your tires. Driving on the highway will get them plenty hot enough to degrade their performance. Plus, you’ll notice that it only took ONE 60-0 stop to seriously degrade the tire’s performance.
There are other reasons not to run year-round on winter tires.
Sure, keep driving the winter tires all year and replace them every other year.
You are definitely throwing away tread-life driving snows in temps above about 50 degrees.
Most states have such restrictions https://rma.org/tire-safety/seasonal-driving-tips/studded-snow-tire-regulations
LOL, repeated max braking panic stops in the real word = No one except every SUV driver with a cellphone.
Can we forcibly put this message out to every fucker who drives all year on studded tires? The roads here are bad enough without those dimwits buzzing along everywhere they go