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.
On my first cars, I had winter and summer tires. I had them changed and stored by the garage, and it was a waste of money. Especially when i moved close to my job and drove less than 12000km/year, aging was more of an issue than wear.
With all cars since then, I have all-year tires. I can’t drive in the mountains in winter, but I never did in the last 50 years, and I don’t plan to start now. For the 3-5 days of snow that we have, if any at all, this is more than sufficient. And it is way, way cheaper.
I grew up in a mountain town that got plenty of snow, and even then we mostly just used all seasons.
In some areas, all season tires are fine, Stockholm is on the border on where that is the case.
Well, Stockholm is a few kilometers north of here. Maybe so 800km or so.
Hell, I lived in city that had snow on the ground 6-7 months of the year and I got by just fine with all seasons for the six years I was there. I mean the city had a robust snow removal service, but they weren’t out unless there was fresh snow.