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Originally Posted By: jimbrewer
All four. That's the practice these days. I don't think it's marketing ploy, but who knows?
They were only $100 apiece as I stumbled into a black Friday sale. I'm sold to the point where I would run them even if I had 4x4 and all terrains. The Blizzaks are cheaper than most all terrains, so the overall running costs switching between the two would be about nil.
All Terrains are good moving forward and ONLY moving forward.
On Friday guy in old 4Runner was in front of me around Silver Plume area on I-70 West of Denver. He passed car, was coming back to right lane and he just kept sliding to the side. He hit pile of snow made by snow plows, flew in the air, and flipped. Luckily, he landed to the right, on pile of snow, and not to the left on the road. I stopped, both guys got out, all good. We were talking and he said how it is very slippery. I had no idea that it was that slippery since tires did not communicate at all to me any odd behavior. He had almost new A/T tires.
Problem with A/T tires compared to real winter tire is stopping and handling. It is OK moving forward, but stopping and handling, they are too hard for that, the compound is not designed for that.
As for AWD. Most cars here in CO that end up in the ditch are 4WD and AWD vehicles, pick up trucks, Subaru's and JEEP's, in that order.
All four. That's the practice these days. I don't think it's marketing ploy, but who knows?
They were only $100 apiece as I stumbled into a black Friday sale. I'm sold to the point where I would run them even if I had 4x4 and all terrains. The Blizzaks are cheaper than most all terrains, so the overall running costs switching between the two would be about nil.
All Terrains are good moving forward and ONLY moving forward.
On Friday guy in old 4Runner was in front of me around Silver Plume area on I-70 West of Denver. He passed car, was coming back to right lane and he just kept sliding to the side. He hit pile of snow made by snow plows, flew in the air, and flipped. Luckily, he landed to the right, on pile of snow, and not to the left on the road. I stopped, both guys got out, all good. We were talking and he said how it is very slippery. I had no idea that it was that slippery since tires did not communicate at all to me any odd behavior. He had almost new A/T tires.
Problem with A/T tires compared to real winter tire is stopping and handling. It is OK moving forward, but stopping and handling, they are too hard for that, the compound is not designed for that.
As for AWD. Most cars here in CO that end up in the ditch are 4WD and AWD vehicles, pick up trucks, Subaru's and JEEP's, in that order.
