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Old 11-05-2014, 08:57 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ksa8907 View Post
Thank you for this. I have been trying to decide between the michelin x-ice and the general altimax arctic.

To speak on "real winter", if the majority of your major streets are clear within 8 hours of snow stopping, you don't know winter driving.
No problem.
My driving consists of 40mi each way on 2 lane hwy and county roads. A lot of times "cleared off" consists of 1 pass with the plow truck 12 hours ago. It can get pretty rough at times.

Just for reference, my brother used the General Altimax on his Civic at the same time I had my Michelins and he was HUGELY impressed with them. I can't speak for rolling resistance but he said that little car would literally push a wall of snow with the front bumper with those tires on it. It was the snowiest, coldest winter on record here last year and he had ZERO problems with those tires.

For me, mpg's and rolling resistance take a back seat to performance on snow. The benefits of a good set of snow tires is absolutely amazing and it's worth a 1mpg trade off (at worst) when they can give you so much more stability, stopping ability and steady handling. Last year running on all-seasons drove that point home as I was stuck running 30mph wondering if the back end was going to stay behind me or not for that 40mi drive.

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