06-02-2011, 03:52 PM
All seasons are generally junk. If I were you I'd get a decent summer tire on those nice ZHP wheels you have and use them as your "track tires" too, then get a smaller set of snow tires to run from like Nov-Mar.
The trouble with all seasons is they aren't really good at gripping on dry pavement cause they want to be good in cold weather, but they aren't good at that either, so its a whole bunch of compromises.
I used to run two sets of wheels on my car, one with super low treadwear hankook RS2s, one with all seasons. The car still sucked in the snow, and you don't want to drive around on crappy all seasons when you could have your good tires on, so I ran the RS2s all summer. Long story short, I ran out of tire in about 10 months, sold the other wheels and all seasons, and replaced them with S-drives. Decent treadwear, almost as grippy as the RS2s, and I'm just careful in the winter/don't drive in snow.
The trouble with all seasons is they aren't really good at gripping on dry pavement cause they want to be good in cold weather, but they aren't good at that either, so its a whole bunch of compromises.
I used to run two sets of wheels on my car, one with super low treadwear hankook RS2s, one with all seasons. The car still sucked in the snow, and you don't want to drive around on crappy all seasons when you could have your good tires on, so I ran the RS2s all summer. Long story short, I ran out of tire in about 10 months, sold the other wheels and all seasons, and replaced them with S-drives. Decent treadwear, almost as grippy as the RS2s, and I'm just careful in the winter/don't drive in snow.
Now: 07 Porsche Cayman S | 18 VW Tiguan
Then: 18 VW GTI Autobahn | 95 BMW M3 | 15 VW GTI SE | 12 Kia Optima SX | 2009 VW GTI | 00 BMW 540i Sport | 90 Mazda Miata | 94 Yamaha FZR600R | 1993 Suzuki GS500E | 2003 BMW 325i | 95 Saab 900S