It's starting to get pretty damn cold. Not quite snow territory, but close. When do you usually swap them on?
Right time to put on snow tires?
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I already put mine on for the year (about 2 weeks ago). I change them myself, so I don't like to do it < 50 degrees. Once it is hitting the 40s, I wait for a 50 degree day and do it. Our first snow isn't probably until thanksgiving or later, but I'd like to have them on in the event there is some early snow storm or something.
JulesMaximus
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I usually wait and feel out each autumn to see how things are going. I've always had them on within one week of the first major snow, and never been late. Generally... that is early October for Anchorage. For this season, I'm putting them on tomorrow or Thursday. I was gonna do it today but got sidetracked.
It wasn't funny at midnight when txrandom posted it, and it was less funny when you posted the same thing an hour and a half later.
Mine will go on the week before thanksgiving. That's a travel weekend, and we can have snow during, so it makes sense to have them on before that.
It really depends on your area.
What you can do is go to weather.com and type in your zip code, then hit the "month view". Passed 10 days into the future, it will just show avg. highs and lows. When the lows dip consistently into freezing, you can be pretty sure that any overnight or morning precipitation will be of the frozen sort. Try it out.
Since snow is spotty here I like a good all lweather tire like the Goodyear TripleTred , or Yokohama TRZ.
BoomerD
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What are these "snow tires" of which you speak? Do you mean you actually have special tires for driving in snow?
Heh-heh...I grew up in that nasty white stuff...I usually watched the weather pretty closely after mid-October, (grew up in Spokane, and have even seen snow on Halloweeen) and if the weatherman started hinting about snow, I'd get them on...I waited for studded tires until they were absolutely necessary however. (yes, I generally had 2 sets of snows for each rig...AND chains for them as well.
When we lived in Wyoming, usually just after Labor Day I put the snow tires on everything, because at 7500 feet, you just never know when you might get up to a white surprise...
Heh-heh...I grew up in that nasty white stuff...I usually watched the weather pretty closely after mid-October, (grew up in Spokane, and have even seen snow on Halloweeen) and if the weatherman started hinting about snow, I'd get them on...I waited for studded tires until they were absolutely necessary however. (yes, I generally had 2 sets of snows for each rig...AND chains for them as well.
When we lived in Wyoming, usually just after Labor Day I put the snow tires on everything, because at 7500 feet, you just never know when you might get up to a white surprise...
where are you in new york? your profile says you are in flushing. if so...WHY THE HELL DO YOU NEED SNOW TIRES IN NYC?
Im in eastern long island now. I don't *need* them out here either, but the roads are nowhere near as good as the city after it snows. But I got them with my car for free, and my all-season tread is more of the performance type than the truely all season type. I slipped and slided enough last year before putting them on, I figure why waste the tread on my all seasons when I've got a perfectly appropriate set of winter specific ones just sitting there.
ViviTheMage
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probably next week, if not a little later.
I have a guy who does it for me free...love the sisters BF, mechanic!
I have a guy who does it for me free...love the sisters BF, mechanic!
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