04 G35 coupe come with 18" michiline Pilot, is it can drive on winter time right? any one recommend for different tire? or go back with 17" and snow tire?

 

Michelin Pilot and all other Summer Tires use the word SUMMER to describe that the compound gets hard and plasticizes in cool weather. Some tires do this at 50F some at 40F.........this gets worse as the tires vulcanize [get harder] in Summer/road heat.

The friction curve will slowly slope down from optium [say 160F] and sudden almost go away[reduces by half] at some cooler temperature.

All season compounds are tuned lower but they still suffer just at a colder temperature maybe 20F. Ice tires work below zero but melt on warmish [even 50-60F] highway use.

 

The only thing the Michelin Pilots will do on the snow is kill you. YOU CANNOT USE THEM. YOU WILL NEED TO GET A GOOD SNOW TIRE SUCH AS THE BLIZZAK LM'22S

 

I have Yokohama AVS Winters on my Coupe for the winter months which are 225/55/17's. They fit fine in place of the OEM 18's, but mine is an A/T. I'm not sure that 17's will fit brembo equipped 6M/T vehicles.
The 'Yoke's' are very effective in the snow and on ice, and I found them as good as the Blizzaks I had on my Sedan.

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I followed GSM's lead, and went with four Dunlop sp Winter Sport M3 tires and 17" rims.......
I'm sure they will get me around alot more safer and realiably than the Michelins, which were absolutely useless in the slightest amount of snow or freezing rain......


04 cpe IP/willow/5at/prem/18's/JDM clear corners/Piaa's/MTEC H4 Super White fog/highs

 

Blitz nailed it in the best way. The pilots will kill you. If you have snow on the road, you're not going anywhere in the best case. In the worst case, you'll either get killed, or kill someone else (or both)...

Get yourself a set of Blizzaks LM22.



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