When are you tossing on your winters and what tire tires recommended for this year?

[BokCh0y]

When are you guys tossing on your winters? And what's the recommendation for this year in terms of winter tires?

I'm still using the Blizzak's DM-V1's on for the SUV and Michelin x-ice (I think it's the x-ice...)for the Mini.

Was thinking of toss the winters on this weekend, but next week doesn't look bad at all....so may wait.

Also looking for a set of winters for my sons car. What recommendations this year?

[StreetRacerX]

Going to be throwing on the winters this weekend, wife won't stop bothering me today because she doesn't want to drive in the snow with summer tires.

[diamondedge]

Tire Recommendations:
http://forums.beyond.ca/showthread.php?s=&postid=4605134

And I swapped mine over last night. Second season w/ Hakka8 studded.

[bjstare]

I decided to put them on this morning. My summer tires are absolutely useless in cold/wet, let alone freezing and slush, so I figured I'd just get it over with.

[flipstah]

Did it already. No regrets.

[nickyh]

I'm going to suck it up one more season on my WS70's. I just don't know what replacement vehicle I'm going to have in the spring so I'd rather wait to be sure.


I actually told my husband at the start of the month I wanted my winters put on this weekend. They have to go eventually, may as well do it sooner rather than later.

[Zhariak]

Booked for Next Tuesday (booked way in advance)...

Sottozeros :)

[schocker]

Last night! :winter:

[schocker]

Originally posted by schocker
Last night! :winter:

3.5 years so far on my federal WS2s and still at about 8-9/32nds of tread left. I am impressed.

edit: I don't know the different between edit and quote :rofl:

[Aleks]

Aiming for Nov 15 for truck and van.

[G-ZUS]

Originally posted by schocker
Last night! :winter:

+1

[asp integra]

my 'summer rims' have winters on them so I am ready for anything haha. Swapping the wives over this weekend

[guessboi]

Hoping to swap 3 cars this weekend depending on how nice the weather is.

[03ozwhip]

gonna do it next weekend on the X1. summers won't cut it for my wife either.

[mrsingh]

Going to swap them on my wife's car tomorrow morning, prior to heading up to Edmonton.

[killramos]

Tires went on the car this morning. SUV on Tuesday.

As for recommendations? Something with studs :dunno:

[pf0sh0]

Sometime in the next 2 weeks... I hope

Hakkas

[Xtrema]

I always wait close to Halloween but looks like I need them on right now. So probably tonight.

Watch the weather go hot after I put them on.

[max_boost]

Still have them on from last season for the 328. It's close to lease return and I didn't want to risk blowing the run flats so milking the winters to the last bit :rofl:

I'll probably get it all done last week of the month.

[A2VR6]

Studded Kumhos went on Oct 1 on the wife's car. Winter beater gets the Hakka's in 2 weeks.

[Tej.S]

Originally posted by Xtrema
I always wait close to Halloween but looks like I need them on right now. So probably tonight.

Watch the weather go hot after I put them on.

Do you drive the 450 through winter at all? I'm thinking about getting replica 18's and slapping on a set of winter tires with them. I've never had any issues with all seasons in the past winter seasons, but apparently this is gonna be our worst winter yet :rolleyes:

[AndyL]

:banghead:
Anyone wanna take a crack at finding me some commercial 22.5 drives?

Our 2 usual shops say I can have steers or trailers in the size I need. Firestone (might have been bridgestone?) Stopped making drives in my size 2 years ago...

I'd really rather not retreads but running out of options.

[gpomp]

Put my studded Kumho's on last night.

[lilmira]

Was not bad at all coming home on my stock conti summer tires, actually made it home faster than on a good summer day. They did slip everytime I hit slush though. Winters are going on as soon as I get the leak fixed.

[austic]

Originally posted by cjblair
I decided to put them on this morning. My summer tires are absolutely useless in cold/wet, let alone freezing and slush, so I figured I'd just get it over with.

This exactly, put mine on this afternoon

[blairtruck]

just finished putting mine on for a trip to calgary tomorrow

[s2k_boi]

Tomorrow for both vehicles..

[ExtraSlow]

Originally posted by Aleks
Aiming for Nov 15 for truck and van. Yep, running the all seasons for another month bitches.

[Minimalist]

It appears I've been head in the sand, studded tires in the garage and had not even considered putting them on until I read about you tampon wearers. Spend a Saturday swapping in the winters? Yup.

[AE92_TreunoSC]

Studded Hankook Ipikes.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j264/burwood69/3ae5f555-3f20-420e-a52b-3abbac80637f.jpg (http://s82.photobucket.com/user/burwood69/media/3ae5f555-3f20-420e-a52b-3abbac80637f.jpg.html)

I took them off in Feb last year, it was such a wimpy winter. This year I'll likely put them on November to march.

I have duratracs so I don't really stress when it snows.

[relyt92]

Put my 3 season old WS70's on tonight, still had 7/32". Will likely replace them with something different next year and sell these for cheap.

[revelations]

End of October typically.

Were going back up to double digit temps by next week and towards month end.

[btimbit]

Put my wife's on today but won't bother doing mine until the end of the month

[Minimalist]

Took a test run late last night, no way am I putting on studded tires before the traditional first week in November. The current conditions are normal for us Canadians, we'll be at plus 15C next week.

[Khyron]

Originally posted by Minimalist
Took a test run late last night, no way am I putting on studded tires before the traditional first week in November. The current conditions are normal for us Canadians, we'll be at plus 15C next week.

It's not 15C in the MORNING when I'm driving to work. Anything under 7, winters are better. Put mine on the frs Thurs. The SUV can wait a few weeks as it's got all seasons (trying to get a set from UrbanX but they are swamped).

[Dumbass17]

I did mine yesterday (Oct 8) in the morning and it looks like I chose a good day to do it!
Nokian Hakkapaliatititlaitlaita 8s studded SUV. Makes a world of a difference.

[max_boost]

I dunno if I buy the whole 7 degrees thing lol but it's probably excellently for marketing

[AE92_TreunoSC]

Originally posted by max_boost
I dunno if I buy the whole 7 degrees thing lol but it's probably excellently for marketing

I think its more for non-siped summer tires that should only be on summer toys.

Most of us on here have driven summer rated sports tires on cold pavement and its butt clinching terrifying.

M+S tire, not so much, just gotta be smart and not bomb around the corner so you can get past the school zone before 7:30am.

[Maxt]

I did the switch today on the srt-10, carrying the 305/40/22's up a ladder to put on the tire storage rack for winter was way worse than the actual switch which took all of 20 minutes.

[BokCh0y]

I did mine this morning too for the RX and the Mini. All done.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Threw my studs on the Subaru just now in case the roads get really bad anytime soon, will probably run the Duratracs till early November as terrible as they are in snow and ice conditions.

[lilmira]

Winters are on. Dont want to test my skills with summer tires tomorrow morning.

[harmlessv8]

New studded winters are on today Oct 10 :-)

[zhao]

Originally posted by Khyron


It's not 15C in the MORNING when I'm driving to work. Anything under 7, winters are better. Put mine on the frs Thurs. The SUV can wait a few weeks as it's got all seasons (trying to get a set from UrbanX but they are swamped).

total bullshit; what they keep saying in commercials and all that is pretty misleading.

I've run slicks (formula car) on race tracks in the end half of october in single digit temps and they were still extremely grippy. Either I am gods gift to driving or they are absolutely lying when they say below 7 degrees winters are better for grip than anything not winter.

Here is that math: End of october I ran 2.xx seconds a lap slower than the lap record in that car, and the lap record wasn't run in october... Now that same car with amazing street tires drops way over 5 seconds a lap. put winter tires on it and you're not running faster than slicks or street tires. ...you're dropping 10+ seconds a lap easily. So it's probably safe to say from driving in absolutely ideal conditions to driving in single digit temps that accounted for maybe 1, maybe 2 seconds a lap, which is surprisingly very little, and makes their statement easy to prove that it is total bullshit.



Why you put winters on in single digits is because of surprise negative temperatures where there may be ice on the road. You go from superior grip to no grip in a split second, and for how much better summer tires are in positive temps it's not usually worth the trade off of how much worse they are in neg temps on ice. That's really their message, but they purposely lie with an easier message to get across.

It's the same with tires in the rain. slicks are faster than rain tires on wet tracks, until there is too much water that the slicks do not grip at all. It's an equally sharp fall off, which is basically awesome grip... awesome grip... omg no grip. But it actually takes a fair bit of rain or standing water to make rain tires superior imo.

[Boosted_TL]

Swapped both vehicles this weekend

Michelin X Ice for the wife's vehicle
Dunlop Winter Sport M3 on the 335d for me