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Originally Posted by Darwins Child
I guess I wasn't clear enough. The goal is not to drive in snow during the winter months (although it would be nice to be able to take our summer-only toy out of storage for a winter emergency), but to be able to do so in other months if snow should unexpectedly happen, and, more importantly, to be able to operate in cold, wet weather during Edmonton's few "summer" months.
Not only that, but I'd like to be able to rotate wheels / tires however I wish without having to remove tires from wheels, and this means having all four wheels the same.
The more I learn about this, the more I think those wheels can / should be all rears rather than fronts, but I'm far from certain about that. At this point I'd like to be able to get away with simply buying two rears for the front and not installing spacers anywhere. But maybe there are good handling reasons not to do this, rather than aesthetic.
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If you run a square setup (19x10 OEM wheels and tires all around), and you like how the front looks, you'd still need spacers in the rear to make the rear wheels flushed relative to the front. Running a square setup would also make your Z handle quite differently. Not bad in any way, just different. Our cars, as most RWD sports cars, were designed with staggered wheels and tires for the purpose of understeering at the limit. Running a square wheel and tire combination would neutralize the understeer and increase the potential for oversteer.