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Originally posted by need2speed
I luv my Pilot Alpins  Three winters and counting....
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They must be a freak set...
The 190E was pretty much undriveable in the winter with them, and the C230 was better off on it's "all-season" summer tires. I often had people blowing their horn at me as I struggled to get across an icy intersection.
They were great on dry pavement. Quiet with decent handling. But, ice and snow (especially ice) brought out the worst. We were in Jasper last winter when we had freezing rain on the Icefields Parkway. I thought we were going to have to park the car and wait it out, while pretty much everyone else was driving along.
This year, we're running the KW-11's on both the C230 and the 190E, and both cars are so much better it's like night and day. We had an awful weekend of freezing rain with roads like curling rinks, and both MB's and the Mazda (also on KW-11's) got around without any problem. This winter in the mountains has been a whole different experience with the different tires.