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Thoughts? I live in a wintery biome so having awd gives me a bit of peace of mind

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By this logic, use summer tires in the winter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use all season tires year round. Unless you live in a very remote or hot part of the world: anytime it snows the city/county/state brings out the plows and salt and cleans the road. Yes winter tires are better on ice, but in reality you are almost never driving on ice anyway so it doesn't make much a difference. Just slow down when it is icy and summer tires are fine. And you need to do that anyway because winter tires are better, but they are not perfect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That was absolutely not my point. My point is that that logic would suggest that you have false sense of security by using all season tires.