[soundman98]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

Another data point/true confession...

I live in central NYS in the heart of our lake effect snow belt. First thing I bought for the FRS when I bought it five years ago was a set of steelies and good winter tires. I drive it year round and it's a great car in winter when equipped properly.

Here's the confession....when my second set of summer tires wore out after 15k miles, I got tired of paying a lot of money for tires that wore out so quickly; they handled well, but were loud and the bang/buck ratio was off for me. I went cheap and bought a set of cheapish Sumitomo HTR all-seasons mostly because the price was right and the treadwear rating was good. They drive nice. Our first heavy snow caught me by surprise this year and I still had the Sumos on the car. They handled it surprisingly well. So well, in fact, that I got lazy and didn't ever put the winter tires on this season. Great winter tires ARE better, but good all-seasons aren't an impossibility, turns out.

it's funny, because i've been saying this for years, but a lot of people seem to get off on crucifying me for it.

all seasons do work.