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Originally Posted by churchx
~el~jefe~: i drive "on dry roads" (cleaned up from snow/ice with salt mostly) in city 95% of time. BUT! I prefer to ready car for worst cases. It's those 5% that can prevent you from going or add a lot of time to get to those 95%, those 5% where you may lack traction on countryside road/iced uphill/unplown yard or road/right after heavy snowfall & not yet cleaned/to avoid crash/etc. I want to be able to rely on car to get me where and when i need and for that i need good proper winter tires, not just something that somewhat may do.
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the ability to grip and stop in dry with other cars on the road at high speed is vastly more important. The slightly smaller size tire need is a myth. The design of the tire is everything. You will notice that the 215/45/17 version of the tire has different proportions of the pattern of a 205. Getting a different brand or model will have 100x more impact than width, negating different sizes. However, on dry roads which is 90% of the driving in winter, stability and braking and corning is determined by maintaining the same sidewall size and treadwidth size. I really have to let this be known. We have light engined race cars, not 1991 toyota corollas.