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Originally Posted by Amethyst
Okay, so another about the rims. Is the main difference the price? One of the websites says steel wheels help prevent sliding on snow and ice. The price difference isn't a deciding factor for me, but if steel wheels make a noticeable difference in winter driving control, that could be.
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I don't think the typical performance is noticeable unless your vehicle is super light. An extra 5-10 pounds per tire might be most noticeable if you have to roll those things around and/or mount them yourself. In general while driving though, no not really. As others mentioned, it's your tire and/or studs.
The sole difference for performance that might be noticeable is that there's less gaps in a steelie than most alloy wheels. So if ice gets into the tire area and freezes, your vehicle might vibrate more from that. But that's not a true alloy vs steelie performance difference and it's easy enough to just go to a heated underground parkade for an hour or two while shopping and then use a snow brush for the remaining slush that remains in the wheel well.
Steelies rust very quickly though. Alloys shouldn't rust.
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Originally Posted by squiggs96
The website is awful, especially if you want to search other stores to see if they have appointments. We were at Costco yesterday, so we stopped into the tire store. The next appointment they had for a tire swap was December 5th and we booked one car in for that. I needed winters for this weekend, so I had mine swapped yesterday at Fountain Tire. It cost me $84 and took 45 minutes. Both sets of my tires are on rims.
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$20 per tire + GST. Sounds about right.
Are mobile tire swappers not advertising their services yet? Booked out to December is ridiculous.