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11-24-2012, 01:07 PM
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Tires for winter
HI,
I live in Allentown, PA. It looks like will snow soon. I thought the OEM tires are four seasons tires before. Actually, I am wrong. It wrote 215/45 R17 87W “summer” high performance tires on official Subaru website http://www.subaru.com/vehicles/brz/vehicle-specs.html Is this fine to drive in winter? Or I need four seasons tires at least? Any suggestion for the tires (Brand& model)? Thanks a lot. |
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11-24-2012, 01:20 PM
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You need all seasons at least.
I drove on the stock tires in snow and it was like driving on pure ice. Also, search. LOTS of topics on this already.
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11-24-2012, 01:47 PM
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Lot of people are going for General Altimax Arctics as a cheap solution. 16" steelies with 205/55/16's comes out to just over $700 shipped on tirerack
By the way, check out the regional forum. We randomly try to plan events and there was a Lehigh Valley run a few months ago that should come back up come spring.
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11-24-2012, 02:00 PM
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I went with the conti's on the stock rims. Have yet to have them mounted and we just got our first dump of snow. Stock tires are 100% s#1t in snow!!! Like I've driven 2wd half ton trucks that do better in the white stuff. Snows will be mounted Wednesday so ill let u know how they compare.
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11-24-2012, 02:09 PM
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i got blizzaks on stock wheels. love them.
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11-24-2012, 02:44 PM
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Blizzaks on 16in Steelies ftw.
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11-24-2012, 02:51 PM
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PA: Snow tires needed.
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11-24-2012, 06:35 PM
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Continental extremewintercontact on steeled from tire rack.
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11-25-2012, 01:38 PM
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225/50 17 blizzaks on my stock rims and the car is pretty unstoppable
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I have the factory all-seasons and even those sucked. I was all over the place. I think most dedicated winter tires will be just fine. I bought Hankook iPikes in factory spec.
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