It's not that I hate my snow tires, I just really love my summer tires (OE Insight tires, still the lowest RR I know of). I figured I could ride out the first snow accumulation of the season on summer tires by just driving slowly, which I did this weekend. I hoped it would buy me a couple weeks, but now it's time to throw in the towel:
Twelve inches of snow, with thunder, with a chance of more snow all week. The Insight is very sensitive to small changes in road load that other cars would just shrug off. I'll have to make a habit of running higher RPMs, and I'm sure I'll be doing a lot less lean burn.
