Yeah, it's a real question of balancing pros and cons for me. I'm on a tight budget when it comes to snow tires...I have little desire to drop a fortune on this topic. That being said, the cheapest solution compromises all around. That would be all season high performance tires. They'd be fine for my street driving in the 'good' months and would be decent in most winter weather, but probably miserable on the bad snow days.
Choice two is to swap the blizzaks onto my same rims and then swap back to the summer tires when the weather improves. This saves the cost of new rims and TPMS sensors. The burden is thus swapping tires and perhaps wear on the tires from mounting and pulling them twice a year (perhaps not a big deal...any advice welcome).
Option three is to get a dedicated set of rims for snow tires and put the blizzaks on them. I'd prefer this, but I'd want a different setup. I'd love 18"s but I have yet to see someone say they work over the sport brake calipers. Going this avenue, I'd surely get narrower rims and tires to get more bite in the snow. Anyone know 1) if 18"s will work over the sport brakes (and what specs if they do work) and 2) what a decent set of cheap 19" rims would cost me?
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