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.
I kind of miss the yearly wheel swap. I live in the Chicago area now where the last several years seem like they have single digit days with anow accumulation.
Still do tire rotations every 6mo so it’s almost then same!
Yay global warming.
Winter tires are not just about the snow. They have better dry traction in the cold as well.
Oh, absolutely!
I happen to have studded winter tires, but more and more people are using stud free winter tires, there are even strees in Stockholm where studded tires are prohibited.
That’s because studded tires should only be used on ice. Even in winter on dry roads studded tires have worse traction than even all season tires do. Realistically very few people should even own studded tires because stud less winter tires are just better in most situations.