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Old 10-13-2006, 03:18 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by albertGQ View Post
Heres another question. Why don't poeple just purchase winter tires and keep them on their cars year round?
Performance and wear.. winter tires are usually much harder than summer tires so they usually perform quite poorly in summer conditions (ie have poor traction). Plus they wear faster so you'd go through tires much faster.

Though Nokian has some tires that are apparently very good at being both.
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