Good thing I replace my tires every spring

But seriously, I hate driving on summer tires the few mornings it's around freezing. At least my car is garaged, and I know to be extra cautious. There are a couple female driven cars at my work on OEM summer tires and I know they have no idea the performance degradation (I've asked ) Then you have all the soccer milf's rolling around on 3 season tires in their ML63s, X5Ms and Cayenne Turbos rushing the kids to school

 

damnit so i have to potentially wait until may to change to my summers

 

Probably not. For Boston, my guess is mid-April, which is just 3-4 weeks away.

Might seem like a lifetime, considering the 1-2-3 punch in the gut you got in snowstorms over the last couple weeks. That must have really sucked.

 

snow storms in Boston are when you find out how savage people are. The space saver law gets vicious. The next 4-5 gut punch tomorrow and Sunday of snow storms can be added to the list

 

I still don't understand the summer tire for the street car thing.

 

If you're putting down over 300 bhp, and like hitting back roads, it makes a huge difference. True that most people will never use the full potential of their summer tires, but for those of us that do, it's worth it.

 

Shoot, I noticed a difference going from Hankooks to all season BFGs on my 118 HP Mazda...

Wish I would've known the importance then. 18 y.o. me couldn't grasp why I kept losing traction once December hit :/

 

That's funny, because I still don't understand the whole A/S tire for the sport sedan thing.

 

I use to switch "UHP" A/S tires with summers on both my Mazda 6s and Legacy GT. It was a night and day difference the day I swapped tires for the season. Steering response, feel, grip, no comparison.

 

Do you track your G?

 

Just autocorss from time to time. I track the q50 red sport haha

 

Doesn't matter. The world is filled with sweeping on-ramps, twists & turns in roads, hard launches from a standing start, etc. Summer-only performance tires make those moments more controlled and precise, and simply more fun. More so if you've a car purposefully designed (or modified) to be driven, and not just to move you from Point A to Point B.

Honestly, the point here isn't to defend the use of performance tires. It's more reasonable to wonder why someone *doesn't* use performance tires on a car situated to take advantage of them.

 

Summer tires aren't the only performance tires.... my UHP A/S handle all that stuff fine, year round. And there is still the question of how hard one should push on the street. If you are regularly at the ragged edge of traction on oversized PS4s you are probably doing way too much. So of course it matters.

 

I'm sorry, Future, but UHP A/S is as much a contradiction as HP Snows. Just is.

In your defense, the better argument is location and climate. It's an awkward proposition for someone down South to be switching snows & summers twice a year. I get that. But try not to let that compromise influence you into thinking you're getting the best of both worlds. Because you're not.

 

so what do you suggest in the winters? (not designed to sound angry so apologizes if it comes off that way)