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Originally Posted by AFireInside
Don't give me the crap about all seasons being fine. I had BRAND NEW all seasons on my brand new car, and last year on the first big dump of snow, had serious difficulty getting up some hills..
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I brought this up earlier in the thread, auto makers in Canada put the same all season tires on their cars in the US and Canada without accounting for the huge difference in climate. There's a huge range in quality of all season tires; Some are rated almost as good as winters while others are absolute death traps on track tests under light and heavy snow conditions depending on price. Guess which ones auto makers are going to put on your new car to improve their margins.
My friend's brand new lancer had Dunlop 5000M's on them.
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/survey...jsp?type=UHPAS
While I agree that winter tires are superior to all seasons, it would help in the winter if people just learned to adapt to winter driving conditions better. It would also go a long way if the government stopped auto makers from putting sub-standard tires on new cars just to improve their bottom line.