Tire Question -- All Seasons Vs. Snow Tires?

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I agree with having separate rims and actual snow tires. Most of us do enough driving that we require two oil changes a year on modern engines: spring and fall are good times to do tire and rim swap-outs. Even though I live right on the salt chuck on Vancouver Island, and can golf year-round at sea level, the fact is that the missus and I love to snow shoe on Mt. Washington, and she goes into the central interior to visit her mom three times a year or more, always once during the winter....that means the Fraser Canyon. it seemed a cheap bit of insurance to average the wear over two sets of tires and have the real McCoys at your service. The experts all insist that good quality snow tires do make a substantial difference in stopping distance, and not just on snowy roads...they're great in the rain, too....as in late fall rains.

If you have good new summer tires, or all seaons, and a good set of snow tires, you should be good for at least seven years before you have to purchase either ones again.

-Crandell