It's iffy. The tires may have been used for one years but how old are they? Tires sitting on the self deteriorate even if they're not used, but check for cracks inside and out and examine the bead for improper mounting.
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On a front wheel drive vehicle the rear tires provide no traction. What you are thinking about is lateral stability. If you have thread worthy tires on the rear you will have no problems. Unless of course you decide to be stupid.
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Think of 25% as two car lengths.
You may drive fine, but others don't, believe me and someday one of them will not be able to stop at a light or at a bottom of a hill. You want everything in your corner for those emergency situation, it may save your life. Just think of why is it that every ambulance, fire truck and police car have winter tires on them. Do you think they know something you don't. This comes from someone who used to put on 40,000 a year for 10+ in all kinds of weather.
It is still called traction even if you are using it for lateral loads rather than longitudinal loads (braking or acceleration). And you are very, very wrong about the rear tires. All season tires are much harder than winter tires. They offer less traction at any given temperature and will break loose before a winter tire will. It is unsafe to have winters on the front and all seasons or summers on the rear as you never want the back end of car to loose traction before the front. That is a guaranteed spin.
........... but the rear tires do offer breaking power. Four snows are the only way to go. Four on and then four off at the time to change them.
it used to be exremely dangerous... but with stability assist, it is less dangerous... still not ideal. Get 4 tires.
Your car will suffer from severe oversteer in snow... if you think the average driver has the skills of Michael Schumacher...then that would be fine.
You have 4 wheel drive, which is great to help you get going, but does nothing to help you get stopped. That's why you see so many 4wd's in the ditch.
If you have a new vehicle, and you plan on owning it for 4 years, and you average 30k a year, then most likely you'll have to replace the all seasons anyways. So why not buy winters in the first place. Just makes sense to me.
I don't know if your a car guy or not but it's also very easy to change them over yourself every season and only takes about an hour. If you do, buy a cheap floor jack for $100 as it speeds things up a ton over using the shitty OEM jack that comes in most cars. If you know what your looking for it also lets you take a quick look at your brakes, shocks etc twice a year. Just make sure you mark which wheel goes on what corner when you change them back again.
Somebody gets it. Most people don't realize that in a panic stop one thing to do to help you stop in a shorter distance is to put the gears in neutral. Try it out someday on a lonely road or empty parking lot.
To tell ya the truth boys I live in Buffalo and have owned various vesicles from sub-compacts to 4 wheel drives I have not put snows on in 25 years.
A decent set of highway tires plow my driveway.
The only thing you miss this way is balancing the wheels before you use them. I might not do it on every switch over, but as you drive tread wears and you will improve wear on them if you balance the tires regularly. Try to remember if you've hit a curb or a pot hole and make a note for next time.
You certainly get more snow than we do and have had good luck. Or maybe it's a case of everyone around you saying f**k it's PS, stay out of his way. (insert smylie here)
I used to think like that as well, until I tried them...they are so much better. When you add to the fact that driving on the right tire is either free, or may SAVE you money...then it's really a no brainer.
In TOTAL agreement here
Have to laugh a bit at this thread....
Also another Buffalo area resident reporting in, who has NOT used snow tires in over 25 yrs. The burbs out here plow the roads well. Have no need for snows at all. Decent good tires have served me well to date.
FWIW prior to moving back to the burbs I did use snows while living inside the Buffalo city limits for the few years living there. Buffalo city does not plow their side streets well and snows were a necessity then.
BTW in all that time have NOT had a single snow related accident...
+1 !!!
Have to laugh a bit at this thread....
Also another Buffalo area resident reporting in, who has NOT used snow tires in over 25 yrs. The burbs out here plow the roads well. Have no need for snows at all. Decent good tires have served me well to date.
FWIW prior to moving back to the burbs I did use snows while living inside the Buffalo city limits for the few years living there. Buffalo city does not plow their side streets well and snows were a necessity then.
BTW in all that time have NOT had a single snow related accident...
I didn't know that you could get snow tires for bicycles.+1 !!!
Have to laugh a bit at this thread....
Also another Buffalo area resident reporting in, who has NOT used snow tires in over 25 yrs. The burbs out here plow the roads well. Have no need for snows at all. Decent good tires have served me well to date.
FWIW prior to moving back to the burbs I did use snows while living inside the Buffalo city limits for the few years living there. Buffalo city does not plow their side streets well and snows were a necessity then.
BTW in all that time have NOT had a single snow related accident...
It isn't always snow that's the problem. When the temperature drops below 7c (~45 F), the seasonal tires start loosing traction.
There is a Date Code on all tires.
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=11
You should know how to read this code, since it is not uncommon to get 4 new tires and 1 is actually a few years older than the others.
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=11
You should know how to read this code, since it is not uncommon to get 4 new tires and 1 is actually a few years older than the others.
