To those fellow NerJersians and Pennsylvanians...

Once winter gets a little closer I will be purchasing a set of winter tires (and probably wheels - 17"ers). I was wondering if being in central jersey and eastern PA if it was best to get a set of dedicated winter tires and run my summer tiers in the summer, or if i should just sell my OEM tires and get some all season performance tires. Any experienced thoughts?

 

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Dedicated winters, I have them for all my cars.

 

Dedicated winters here as well. They perform better in the snow and the summer tires will outperform the all season in the nice weather.

 

Incase you are interested, I've got a set of 4 winter wheels/tires that were used for less than 4000 miles this past winter.

Kosei K1-TS 17x7 light grey (nice lightweight wheel) with Dunlop Wintersport M3 215/55/17 with Mazda TPMS installed. The TPMS avoids the following: not having a functional tire pressure monitoring system & having the TPMS dash light on (having to live with it or do something to cover it).

I live on Long Island and got through all the snow last winter without issue. With winter tires, the car was solid as a rock on both fresh and packed snow. The M3s also give very good dry performance being a high performance winter tire. As a bonus, with the 17 wheel and taller profile tire, you get more rubber to absorb the impacts from the wonderful broken up roads we get here during a Northeast winter.

The whole set was $1796 before shipping from TireRack last year. Wheels are clean with zero curb rash, tires have 90%+ tread, look brand new. I'm hoping to get $1200, but will consider reasonable offers. If you're in the tri-state area I could possibly deliver or meet halfway to save on the cost of shipping them. If anyone is interested I can head to the basement and snap some pics. Let me know.

Also if anyone in the area wants a Spare Tire Kit, I have a complete new one of those as well.

 

I might be one of the few but.

I dont have any extra cash for extra set of wheels. So I just stick with all season.

Just got myself some BridgeStone's newest RE960A/S pole position 3 days ago. pretty nice in wet and dry, dunno about snow yet.

 

I am from NH, but if you have to drive in the winter I would say DEDICATED for sure.

I bought my car this February and was forced to drive it in the snow. Won't be this year! Anyway I bought some Dunlop M3's for my 18's and LOVED them. They are really amazing.

They are fairly expensive, I think I bought mine for $800 installed, but worth every penny in my opinion!