Are winter tires "worth it"?

[edyvw]

If one notices these debates, never is it about marginal benefit. There’s always an assumption that all have significant resources and are looking to find new ways to spend. I’d rather put my money where my mouth is. Living in SE PA, I haven’t even put the snows on in 4 years. 8 rims/snows are in the shed. We don’t get snow anymore.
Are they worth it? Yes, if you drive in snow. If you’re like we are, with snows, you sacrifice performance, cost, and safety, driving around in rain and on dry pavement. Suddenly it would seem cars with summer only tires should switch to a high performance all season (not all weather) for temps below 37F. Or, don’t, and just don’t drive when below 40F.

We in Colorado get A LOT of weird weather in April and May and then September and October. I run Continental DWS06+ on BMW and Michelin Pilot AS3+ on Tiguan precisely bcs. cold days, cold rain, dry roads below 30f etc. It really does not make sense to buy Michelin Pilot PS4S for example for 3 months of driving.

 

[edyvw]

I wait until the end of April to take mine off. They’re still on the V70R at the moment. There are a couple more days left in the ski season.

Might need them!

Going next Friday to ski at A Basin. Older kids have day off. It seems that storm front is brewing for Thursday, so might be few more weeks of good skiing before it turns into slush.

 

[edyvw]

Wow. Elevation makes a lot of difference.

Krzyś

Yep, we got around 5" in Colorado Springs. Wet snow. Then during the night, the temperature dropped to 19 degrees, turning the roads into ice.

 

[Sequoiasoon]

And today in NY we had to open the AC vents at moms house and power all her stuff up. It was 85 degrees here today (and 82 in her house) with family gathered for early Easter get together.

3 season Defender LTX M/S went on Pilot this past week and the Pirelli Scorpion AS+2 on daughters CRV. Accord and Forte had them swapped to 3 seasons about 2-3 weeks ago.