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Originally Posted by pawoSD
Ever heard of snow tires? You can accomplish a whole lot more with snow tires on a RWD vehicle than on a FWD with normal tires. I've been taking off on up-hill slopes in the slush and snow this winter and easily passing FWD cars. I've never gotten stuck in my 300SD in 7 years of driving through every kind of snow storm imaginable.
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That would be an option if I had A) enough spare cash to own a set of tires that I'd have to take off for 9 months of the year and B) Enough patience to be in and out of tire shops all the time having them swapped on and off and C) A place to store tires the rest of the time I wasn't using them.
Plus it would thoroughly mess up my mileages on my tire sets; I don't do the whole "replace two at a time" thing. I buy them as a set, hope against hope that they wear evenly and I don't destroy one prematurely, and do the best I can to keep all four the same age and mileage and replace all at once.
Can't leave snows on year round; my understanding is that they wear out faster than all-weather or M+S tires. The reason I put up with (albeit while complaining) this foolishness is that I'm getting 55-60 thousand miles per tire set with the ones I'm buying now. On my income, that's a major help.