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Originally Posted by Suberman
Pirelli Sottozeros going on mine: 225/45x17. I'm looking for bare road winter performance. With that Torsen any winter tire will be enough for traction. I want good braking and cornering on bare road.
Put them on today so as to scuff them in before the end of the month.
As expected they are amazing in warm weather, for a snow tire.
I'm switching my summers to 225/45x17. That 215/45x17 tire just looks too skinny for this car. Never thought I'd buy a tire for looks but really, 215?
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Having driven through a winter with mine already, you might want to re-think your choice. The dry grip difference between a ice/snow tire vs a performance snow is quite minimal, but the grip difference in actual snow is much bigger. You'll also want a narrower tire for snows, too wide of a tire will just float on top of snow and not give you any real bite.
As for the Torsen diff, that's not going to magically give you a ton of traction, I had a couple days where I could barely get up a small incline with ice/snow tires when the snow was really wet and packed down into almost ice easily.
At the end of the day these are light RWD cars that don't have a ton of weight on the back tires, they need good ice/snow tires if you plan to drive it on anything but dry/wet pavement.