Been keeping an eye on the temperature forecast, and it looks like I won’t be touching the tires any time soon. Maybe next month.
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Well look at this fat cat here that can afford more than one set of tires...
LOL, congrats 👍
It is a legal requirement here in Sweden to use snow tires when the temp goes down during the winter, I have studded tires in the winter, and next week is the last date you may drive with studded tires.
I've always been curious about laws like that. Is there a date they have to be start being used by? Is it whenever you notice the temperature hit a certain level? What happens if it bounces back up? Do you have to keep switching? Is there some kind of national announcement?
The law say that you have to have winter tires if there are winter conditions on the road.
The law also states that studded tires may be used between the first of October and the fifteenth of april, you may still use studded tires outside of that timeframe, if there are conditions to motivate them.
In the long run, two sets of tires doesn't cost much more than one, other than maybe the cost of a second set of wheels (which could just be cheap steelies in most cases) and the space to store them. If you think about it, you're wearing the tires out at half the rate, so even though you're paying more up front you get it back over time.
In the long run, two sets of different season tires costs more than two sets of same season tires.
Studded tires ain't cheap yo.
ah, so you're the jerk who caused the sudden snowstorm/cold weather here. :-)
Then my lazy ass just runs summer tires all year in California because it only rains like 3 times a year and I just take it easy lol.
Depending om the temp, you may be fine, winter tires are made from softer rubber that stays softer and grippier at lower temps, but are too unstable at hotter temps:
Oh I am well aware of the differences. I grew up in the mountains where we actually ran studded winter tires on our old Volvo wagon for a few months out of the year growing up.
I live at low elevation and it never really gets THAT cold here. If it's cold or raining I drive like a grandpa anyway.
This past winter it never went below freezing where I am. I think we had two nights where it got down into the high 30s fahrenheit. Otherwise it's usually somewhere between 40 and 110 fahrenheit for the rest of the eyes. Most of that being between 60 and 90 I would say.
West coast privileges lol.
I'm skipping that this year. My summer tires wore out last year, so now I'll wear out the winter tires.by driving the during summer. Next time I'll get all year tires.
You will get worse grip and your stopping distances will increase.
I know, but I'm not a rally driver so it won't make much difference to me.
That is the same kind of thinking as "I do not need seat belts, I don't crash"
Not really.
It depends on a number of factors, including your local conditions, how much you drive, where you drive, etc.
I have a vehicle that gets driven perhaps once a week. No way in hell I'm putting the excellent winter-rated tires on that. It's fine with less expensive ones. It never goes faster than 45 (and that's pushing it) because it's only for city driving. It almost never drives in the snow (because we get it so infrequently through a winter), so the winter rating is for a just-in-case. Even if it had to go in snow, I've never driven a vehicle like it in snow, and I've driven a LOT of vehicles in winters worse than I get now.
I'm also not paying $2000 for an extra set of wheels to swap out seasonally, or paying to have them remounted/rebalanced seasonally.
Everyone's risk situation is different.
Everyone's risk situation is different.
The issue here is that you are not just gambling with your own safety, you are gambling on everyone else's safety as well.
That's what I'm doing. I used to live further north, where it was really important to have good snow tires, but I've moved a couple hours south, and it's just not worth the trouble here, for a handful of snowy days, and a trip up north for the holidays.
I live in the South, so instead of switching between summer and winter tires, I switch between summer and all-season. That's on my sports car, anyway; the other cars run all-seasons year-round.
Have to keep mine on until May usually. We got more snow yesterday.
Meanwhile, where I am, we had snow last night. Crazy thing is it hasn't really snowed here since January, and the past few weeks, we had several days over 60. Thankfully, we don't have laws about what tires to use, and I just use all season, which has never really been a problem.
I'm seriously considering it. I like the quieter drives with summer tires, but I'm crossing a mountain next week, so I need the studded ones for now. I'll change to the summer set when I get back.
Not looking forward to it. Them wheels are heavvvy. My old car was fine, but I cannot grab one wheen under each arm anymore.
They cleared out the gravel here last week. Then it snowed. I think I'll wait another week or two before changing tires.