when are you planning to install winter tires

[kvndoom]

There will probably be winter in Hades before there's winter in Tidewater. The last real bad snow eastern VA saw was that blizzard in early 2000.

 

[willrockwell]

Consider this my welcome post, I found this forum while searching for OEM Speed 3 rims. I'm trying to buy 2 of them for my snow tires, which will be installed at the first threat of a storm. The snow tires ruin my cornering performance, so I put them on as late as possible. I found you only need snow tires on the front, the rear will just follow along with no complaints.

 

[mckraut]

Had mine swapped yesterday by NTB.

 

[Saskatchewan17]

Yeesh... mine are already starting to lose traction when I get on it.

 

[Sport6]

Consider this my welcome post, I found this forum while searching for OEM Speed 3 rims. I'm trying to buy 2 of them for my snow tires, which will be installed at the first threat of a storm. The snow tires ruin my cornering performance, so I put them on as late as possible. I found you only need snow tires on the front, the rear will just follow along with no complaints.

Where are located? If you get below 40 for sustained periods of time I would not recommend leaving the stock tires on the rear. It's not reallly the tread depth or design that is the traction problem in the winter, the tire compound gets so hard in the winter (basically freezes).

So you could be on snowless roads on cold days and you go around a corner and your ass end of the car could slide out because of the stock tires loosing traction.

Just saying I would hate for you to be one of the 5-6 guys that will come on the boards this winter and say they crashed, have stock tires on, and then claim that awd would have made their day better.

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

Where are located? If you get below 40 for sustained periods of time I would not recommend leaving the stock tires on the rear. It's not reallly the tread depth or design that is the traction problem in the winter, the tire compound gets so hard in the winter (basically freezes).

So you could be on snowless roads on cold days and you go around a corner and your ass end of the car could slide out because of the stock tires loosing traction.

Just saying I would hate for you to be one of the 5-6 guys that will come on the boards this winter and say they crashed, have stock tires on, and then claim that awd would have made their day better.

QFT - seriously, either get a dedicated set of winters or some awesome all-season tires on all 4 corners.

 

[pcpower]

FYI - I decided on Michelin Primacy Alpin PA3's with 16" steel wheels,,, placed the order a couple weeks ago. The steelies were temporarily out of stock until the end of this month, and now has been pushed back even further to Nov 14. pooP.

you would think that they have plenty of steelies in stock,,, no?

 

[Silver Ecstasy]

That definitely is weird. They start production in early summer for winter equipment.

I've been delaying it thankfully and this past week was in the upper 50's. Next week is more lower temps. This may happen a few weeks sooner than I expected.

 

[79535]

They run out of rubber/rims every year around here. I drove the MS3 for 2 weeks after a 1 foot snow fall on the stock bald tires. It was not fun.

I learned my lesson - get in early.