Does anyone drive on UHP summer tires throughout the year?
 

this question would be for people that go through cold winters with ocassional snow like NY.

im still debating on getting hankook v12 evo UHP summer tires but am worried if itll be to dangerous during the winter cause I commute everyday in my rx8.

im debating this because ive read all season tires compared to summer tires in winter and snow are very similar and all season tires dont change much.

i cant affored winters so if im getting all season tires im thinking of toyo proxes 4 but id rather have the hankooks if this is the case and just drive real careful in snow

What is this winter you speak of. "Snow"????

All I know is that in southern calirfornia its sunny all the time with the occasional drizzle, twice a year. Sorry I couldn't help more :/

For me on stock summer tires it was hell and im in NY

Never doing that again -- And i didn't even drive my car much in the winter -- This year im going to get some snow rims with snow tires.

The problem with UHP tire in the winter are twofold. First, the tread pattern isn't made to move the snow out of the way and allow the rubber to get down to the pavement. Second, the rubber gets hard and you loose traction below 40 degrees.
All-Season tires are a compromise tire. I isn't the best at anything. But, I'm on the second set on my car. If you don't have a place to store winter tires and don't want to spend the money for a second set of wheels, it is the only solution.

Well, nice try anyways. I'm sure the OP is much more enlightened now after learning that "Calirfornia" has nice weather.

I am planning to run summer tires all year, which shouldn't be a problem for me. I currently have all-seasons on the car, and the name is quite deceptive. I tried going into the mountains last winter/spring and about 3 minutes after we see snow falling, the tires pretty much gave up. I turned around, and resolved never to go near snow again, unless I knew I had the right tires for the job. I wish I grew up around snow, so I would better know how to drive in those conditions.

I looked at the Hankooks you mentioned. They did very well in Car and Driver's recent summer tire test, even in the wet. I bet they outperform my current tires in all conditions. But I doubt you'd want to take them through snow.