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Originally Posted by Johnny Horsepower
Virginia, so it definitely gets below 50 degrees at times (rarely, below 20, which I've heard is the cracking point of a summer tire). I've been driving my backup car when it was below 40. I don't have space to store another set of tires.
Now I'm thinking about getting good all seasons. This isn't the advice I expected to get, so I'm glad I asked.
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Yes, a summer tire can crack around 20 degrees, however around 50 and below it starts to become harder and drastically loses performance, the top michellin all season will have more grip around 50 degrees vs the top michellin summer tire, and the difference will become greater and greater as it gets colder and colder, although as it gets warmer and warmer the opposite will be true and the summer will obviously be better.
Now you mention you have another vehicle, if you didn't mind garaging your car for roughly 2-3 months when it routinely gets below 40, you could get away with the summers, they would still be adequate for the other 2 months in the 40-50 degree weather just not ideal. but then you would have optimal performance for roughly 6 months a year when its 50+.