This was a bit sudden, I was planning on doing it next weekend, but I saw snow forcast and didn’t want to risk having to use my thrashed summer tires on snow.
This was the last season that I could use those summer tires, the tread was almost used up and there was some dry cracking of the rubber, so I am ordering new Pirelli’s for the next season.
Last spring one of my tires had 4/5 bolts seized by rust even though I put ceramic paste on the threads, and it was a pain to get off.
This fall I used spray tar (literally wood tar thinned with acetone in an aerosol can) on the bolt threads. We’ll see the results after this winter.