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So I know it may sound a bit silly to talk about autumn tires but well... I got myself Michelin Cup 2 tires for daily driver and it was all fun and giggles during summer but summer is about to end and currently weather forecast for next week announces sub 10 deg C temperatures (sub 50F) and I'm no longer able to keep those tires temperature above 40 deg C (which seems to be absolute minumum for those tires to operate with any reasonable performance). Especially front tires are problematic because few clutch kicks from time to time are always able to bring rear tires temps to sufficient 40-50 C but there's not much I can do about front axis so understeer goes through the roof.

So I've been thinking - are there any more... "dedicated" options for period between winter and summer? I mean - I already do have winter tires but they kinda suck for spirited driving and performance is just nowhere near Cup 2 at decent temps. So I started to wonder if maybe someone tried something like uh... soft compound semi slicks?

I considered Extreme Tyres VR2 (or VR1) made of R5A soft compound which should be fine for operating temps between 15 to 50 deg C which should be about right for autumn weather and should work fine down to temps which already require winter tires anyways.

And I know it may sound like really dumb "problem" in the first place with easy solution - just get regular summer tires - but regular summer tires are just regular decent all-around, econo, best for nothing solution. I could just as well put on my winter tires and call it a day but I'm looking for Cup 2 level performance in colder weather, not "just works" all season tire. So... I guess soft semi slicks sound kinda like product made specifically for such scenario.

Inb4 I don't care about tread-wear and wet performance at all. I'm used to driving on borderline bald semi slicks in the rain so I'm aware how much caution it requires. I'm not gonna break lap records in the rain anyways. So I'm only interested in DRY performance (maybe very slightly damp but nowhere near wet, not to mention standing water).