My son is moving to the Denver area..he needs a good all season tire to handle the weather out there..I need ideas from y'all that know...thanks
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My son is moving to the Denver area..he needs a good all season tire to handle the weather out there..I need ideas from y'all that know...thanks
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I spent 17 years in Wyoming driving everything from FWD compacts to full-size RWD pickups...all he'll need is a good set of all-seasons, rather than saddling him with two sets of tires to be responsible for. Denver is notorious for its heavy springtime snowfall when weather systems coming over the mountains become trapped and hang there for days. He won't want to be caught off guard with summer tires on the car, with no opportunity to switch them out before the roads become a joke. If he just keeps in mind that a car basically becomes crippled by slick roads, and slows down, he'll be fine. No winter tire is going to help a FWD compact car when the snow gets bumper-deep, nor will they make any difference when the snow becomes packed into ice. There's no substitute for giving yourself ample time to get where you're going, and realizing that even if you're able to accelerate, braking and steering can be an entirely different story. One of my last trips to Denver ended me up in one of the worst winter storms I'd ever been in, and plow as they may the snow can fall faster than they can plow...it was no fun in my Sundance, but with my all-season Bridgestones I did as well as anyone else on the road...and considerably better than the people who didn't slow down on 25 and were being pulled out of the ditches.
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Are you even making a point of which tire he should be during a given season, or are you suggesting he should change his tires every day depending on what the roads have in store?
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Summer tires MAY be better in the wet,
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but later that night when the wet turns to ice and slush, or more snow falls, he won't want to be riding on summer tires.
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December through April in Denver sees more snow and ice on the roads than water, so a summer tire during that period is begging for a bad wreck.
I'd be interested to know how you're envisioning Wyoming to be..this wide-open spaces comment is interesting...and true about the highways in-between cities, but most people (ranchers aside) live and work in a city and endure the same stop-and-go situations as people do in any other state.