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Old 12-22-2013, 09:45 PM   #149
chrisl
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Originally Posted by Suberman View Post
Newsflash.
I was pretty surprised at how much they suck, to be honest. I wasn't expecting them to be good, but I thought they'd work OK for getting home in <1" of snow if I was careful about it (since there was pretty much no traffic or significant hills on the route).

I've seen tests where all seasons didn't do much better than summers on snow/ice, and I've driven around in snow on all seasons a bunch (my outback has HydroEdge low rolling resistance all seasons on it during the summer, and I usually don't switch over to my winters until a couple of snowfalls, so I've driven them in the snow a fair amount). The gap from summer performance to all season is a lot bigger than I thought though (and the gap from all season to winter is similarly enormous).
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