Winter Tire Choices
 

I have never really needed to buy winter tires in MD until the recent few years and since I have had the FRS I am starting to realize how badly I need them. What sets do you guys recommend?

Blizzak or X-ice. Blizzaks are better but wear out faster from my experience

Ran my Blizzak LM-32s for the first time last night and they were aweeeeeesssoommmmmmeeeeee. They are way less squishy than the WS80s are above 55mph(I don't feel the squish till 80ish)

Drove from Davidsonville up I97 to Elkridge about 10 pm and there were cars and SUVs littering the shoulder and I was just cruising along

Yeah I am sadly still on stock tired and doubt I will be able to get a set by tomorrow haha but I will definitely need to pick up a set do you just run the steel rims?

Good to know. I am about ready to buy my 3rd set of winter tires (might make it though this year) and want something new to try. I ran WS70's and really liked them but they are sooo squishy. If I picked them up from the inner sidewall it would flop out lol my summer tires hold their shape

The General Altimax Arctics are pretty legit for a cheap option, too. Also squishy.

I bought some ebay specials. Continental "ice Viking" tires. They were 280 for the entire set on my forester. From my research they are the EU spec version of the extremewintercontact by continental (could be wrong, not a lot of info) but either way.... they have been very good to me. No loss of mileage, not a lot of noise, and when we have had snow this year (very mild here in the stl area admittedly) I have had zero issues. For the price, you can't beat it. I was going to do blizzaks but they were over 500 for the right size.... so. Yeah.

If you don't care about performance during the winter I would say either Firestone Winter Force or General Altimax Arctic. Cant go wrong with either tire. Yeah they are soft and "squishy" but when it comes to getting through the snow they are freaking amazing!

I have personally been running winterforces on my other car for the past 4 years and have never gotten stuck anywhere.

Also I would just go on tirerack or a similar site and order a set of snows with 16" steelies. They usually have well priced packages. You want a nice narrow tire with a tall side wall.

Altimax Arctic's 205/55/16 never had any problems with them.

yeah I just need to do something considering they are calling for 20-30 inches of snow this weekend and I bet this wont be the only serious amount of snow we get this year.

http://www.caranddriver.com/features...old-war-page-2

I just bought a pair of the ice gaurds on steelies off of here. They held up well on the commute today.

There is a master review thread for winter tires:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24037

But yeah, go get some. Any snow tires are better than no snow tires.