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Originally Posted by why?
all season tires are useless. Real summer tires and a set of real winter tires is 1000 times better in every way. However the 86 can ship with all seasons.
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Yeah...I've driven every car I've owned up until now with some form of all-season tire on them, to include a Porsche, so no, they're not useless if you don't drive like there isn't snow on the ground. They can't be as useless as summer tires in the same situation. They obviously won't do what snow tires will (and no one should expect them to), but they won't harden into rocks in the winter like summer tires either, which is the more dangerous situation as far as I'm concerned. Seeing as the dealer isn't going to throw in a set of winter tires with your purchase out of the goodness of their hearts, all-seasons would at least provide the compromise they're designed to be so you're not totally SOL when you get caught by surprise by snow like I did a few years ago in a rear wheel drive car. I wasn't flying down the snow covered roads, but I was able to drive home without having to do it at a crawl.