winter tires or Al season tires

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anilk

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Hi,

I just bought a used 2007 Z4 today. I see the tires are not in good shape and I feel car drifting in snow roads. I live in a place where there are heavy snow falls during winter and really bad bad weather conditions. But I still bought Z4 as I am passionate of driving this car and this is the only car I have. So I should for alternate option to drive this car in winter too. Can some one suggest if I get ride of drifting/sliding with Winter tires or all season tires will be good enough for this season... Please do suggest me
 
Winter tyres for winter, summer tyres for summer. Tried all weather in snowy conditions once, it was "an experience" and doing a 360 on a main road is not for the faint hearted.
 
In your situation for an all year round car in your particular weather conditions, its got to be winter tyres IMO.
 
Winter tyres without a doubt... I found the zed quite driveable in snow on winter tyres... on summers it was impossible.... and that's in the UK where we generally don't get it too bad.
 
WLH said:
anilk, welcome to the forum... :thumbsup:
Winter tire for sure... :driving:
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Welcome and don't cheap out on the winter tires, Blizzaks are excellent if you can get your size. (I use TireRack.com) and don't forget to throw a sandbag in the trunk. :thumbsup:

Blatant Product endorsements and I get nothing for it... :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
I went with dedicated non-staggered 17" wheels and 225/45/17 Blizzaks performance winters then moved to Hankook ice bears. I never had any issues with either tire in the snow. I'll second Mcbeee's praise of tirerack.com. great service and great prices as well. :thumbsup:


 
Definite separate sets for each season - intermediates will only give mediocre all round performance, because in the summer you'll need every ounce of dry weather grip & in the winter you'll be grateful for every extra drop of grip u can find
 
Hold On !
Before last weekend I would have jumped on the Winter Tires side of this debate.
I have winter tires on all 3 of my vehicles at the moment with summer tires stored in the basement.
Actually the Zed has summer Michelin's and the stock run flats for touring !

Last weekend the Toronto Star newspaper has a "Wheels" automotive feature.
They tested a new configuration tire called "All Weather" tires vs All Season
The All Weather tested very well.

http://www.wheels.ca/guides/all-weather-tires-are-not-the-same-as-all-season-and-heres-why/

Just a heads up that might be worth a look see.

Cheers
Bumpy :tumbleweed:
 
I don't think all weather are for performance cars yet, I'll stick with my summers and winters for a while until they are proven. Might be worth putting on a runabout but I wouldn't put them on a Zed or my porsches. Not yet anyway :thumbsup:
 
Here is a chart that shows the difference. But to sum it up. A winter is for 7C and below, an all weather tyre works both above and below 7C.

http://info.kaltire.com/sites/kaltire.newshq.businesswire.com/files/press_release/additional/Kal_Tire_Tire_Comparison_Info-graphic_0.pdf

Why wouldn't you Mcbeee? Just as one mindfully slows down in the winter. Shouldn't one do that as well even when running "performance" winters on the cold dry days? I certainly never even considered trying to hit max V. while I had the Winters on, Even if they had a V rating. It was 10C today in Germany and I was having a great time in the seven. Which has hankook all weather (optimo 4S) tyres on it.
 
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