Hey guys,

For those of you with experience with all-season tires on your evo, how would you say the car does in the snow? I am currently running a separate set of summer and winter wheels/tires, but I am considering moving to just one set of wheels with all-season tires. I live in Indianapolis, IN, btw, so the snow here in the winter season is moderate; we probably get about 10 total snows in the winter, with 3 or 4 of them being 3+ inches.

Thanks!

 

I run Bridgestone G019 grids year round, and the evo gets around great in the winter. Much better than my 08 legacy did. I think a lot of this has to do with the ACD though. I live in Minot, ND, and the snow here varies a lot year by year. Sometimes we will have very little to no snow, and the next winter we get 6' over the course of the season.

 

I have run a few different all seasons and I'll be getting a seperate set of wheels for summer and running blizzak's on the stock wheels. I've heard goot things about them and I've found myself in a sketchy situation more than once just babying the car around on all seasons.

 

True, the evo can be a beast on the slippery stuff. I switch back to 91 from e85 in the winter and just run wastegate boost (12 psi) to tone it down a bit.

 

i'm currently running the hankook icebear w300's, which have been pretty solid. i feel like for performance its my best bet to stick with a set of summer tires and a set of winter tires, but i only get about 2 seasons' use out of each....$$$ is getting up there

 

I've run Kumho ASXs in snow up to 6 inches, and they did fine. It would break loose, if I mashed on it, but nothing scary. Good tires.

 

LOL, we rarely get snow here in Texas, but this past February, we got 13 inches in one day. This just so happens to be the day that I am out running around in my Evo until 11PM. I have the Nitto NT05s as this is just a weekend car, and the Evo did remarkably well!!! All that to say, that even with the stickiest summer tires, the Evo conquered the snow easily.

 

If you live in the sticks and dont see plows or salt really then you need dedicated snow tires for the winter.

If you are in a more populated area, all seasons are more than enough as salt and plows keep the roads slushy or wet most of the time.

If you like to have fun in the snow with your car then dedicated snow tires are also needed for the winter.

 

Living in Colorado we always get snow during the winter and plenty of it if you drive normal all seasons will be fine if you drive on snow like you do on dry roads definitely get some winter tires.

 

IMO the term "all season" is a bit too general. Some tires labeled all season seem to be labeled as such just because the rubber compound doesn't turn rock hard below 30 degrees. Then there are all season tires that have a tread pattern that will work well in all conditions. The two examples I experienced this with were the Falken Ziex 912 and Sumitomo HTR+. I was honestly not impressed with the Falkens in any conditions, dry, wet or snow. They seemed especially poor in the snow so much so that I don't see how they could be called "all season". The Sumitomo's however are probably the best tires I've ever driven on in the rain and they did quite well in the snow. They also were fairly grippy in the dry but of course nothing like a dedicated summer tire.

To answer your question the evo does great in the snow with good "all season" tires but any car will do poorly in the snow with bad tires even if they are labeled "all season".

 

Light snow climate Indy has and awd... prob do fine with an a/s tire. We get hit a lot more in S-Bend with the lake so majority of us run dedicated snows.

 

i took a long drive in 6-8 inches of snow with my toyo proxes4's. The car made it through a few bad situations and I got where I was going. However that experience convinced me to invest in some real snow tires.

My experience is that with all-seasons you can make it, but with snow tires you have control. Completely worth it to me.

If you do get all-seasons I would get a set with better rain/snow traction, rather than dry performance.

 

Incredible advice right here. Best you can get. Now it's up to you to decide what you want to do with your car.

Oh my own experience with all seasons: there's a topic on EvoM called all-season tires suck started by me. The reason I had all seasons in the first place was because I got them with the car.

Late spring, Summer, early autumn: Potenza
Winter: Blizzak

Just makes the Evo shine in every aspect.

 

i feel like i could get away with some decent "all-seasons" but all you guys are making me lean towards sticking with a dedicated summer and winter set of tires

 

from the time I have owned my car I have ran one set of tires all year around. some have been summer only tires some all season. this is what I know i took the stock advans in 3 inches of snow and on ice at speeds above what alot would do with winter tires. i have ran all season tire in the summer on a hot day and found them not to stick to well to the road but give you a good warning before letting go. the one thing I can tell you is no matter what tire you run,,,,, make sure it has good tread on it, i mean dont run it till all the tread is gone just to get you money out of it. if the wear bars are showing on the tire or the inside edge wears down REPLACE IT. I cant stress enough when a tire looses its tread it is no good at any weather condition.