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Originally Posted by miktvk
Extra stress on the snow tire requirement. Anyone who buys into the unwritten and highly erroneous conventional wisdom that all-seasons will get them safely all the way through a typical US winter is just delusional. Its just not worth the risk. This applies to front and all wheel drive as well. I have seen plenty of front drive and all wheel drive cars struggle all over the place, just because of the tires.
With the current state-of-the-art pure winter snows available from all the manufacturers, there is no excuse not to buy a set of 4 and slap 'em on with an extra set of cheap steel wheels or other alloys. HUGE difference. We use unstudded Nokians on both our RWD vehicles.
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Bah if you know how to dive in the snow all seasons are fine. I have passed many trucks in my fwd Toyota with cheap all season tires. Sure winter tires are probably better, but knowing how to drive in the snow is to. I was driving the SDL in 2-3 of fresh snow last week and the ABS only came on once. A few weeks ago we took my friends E300D out in the snow and a big suv was ridding us. He slide out and almost smacked a sign.
Unfortunitly he left before we could turn around and make fun of him. Hmm rwd MB with tired all seasons does fine but 4wd truck slides out of control.