what tires do you guys recommend for dealing with the wet/snow?

i'm looking at 245/35/19 and 275/30/19 or 265/35/19.

just found a nail in a rear tire and i might just replace the whole set.

 

nothing in a 19" size. Driving in the snow with performance tires in washington is asking for it. Go with a dedicated winter setup for not much more, and save the wear and tear on your aftermarket wheels

 

all seasons can deal with the wet, for snow, maybe i'll just have to WFH those days or take a bus in.

so how about all season suggestions?

 

i hate all seasons with a passion, mediocre wet performance, mediocre dry performance, lame all around. You should seriously just consider a winter setup, other than the initial investment, there is almost no additional cost because you are putting wear on 2 sets of tires instead of 1.

 

You NEED snow tires IMHO. I just went though this last year. All seasons won't cut it. NW snow is funny. It's very wet because we are right below/above freezing. So the snow is slushy, then freezes overnight. Then you got ice to deal with. Find a set fo used 17s and some dedicated snows. I run Blizzaks WS50s on my stockers and it was night and day (ie... life or death!).

You can find winter setups for fairly cheap around here or on craigslist etc.

 

true... ok i guess i can drive up on this tire if i'm not losing pressure and then worry about the winter wheel/tire setup once i get up there.

since i'll be crashing with my parents, the roads where they live are just not drivable when snow/slush freezes to ice. too hilly to get anywhere. should still find something i can swap out to though

 

run dedicated summer tires 9 months of the year, and winters during the cold months. Swap out the current setup to something with good wet handling such as the t1r/fk452(cheaper) or ps2/gsd3(expensive) summer tires. You will be much happier overall. For winter's I prefer a high performance winter tire such as the michelin PA2(what I personally use), dunlop m3's, or bridgeston blizzak lm22

 

Yes, when buying tires for NW life, rain performance becomes pretty important.

 

yokohama parada spec-2s work surprisingly well in snow/slush for being a performance dry weather tire, given they were on a fwd car... i had some pirelli p zero nero m+s that i liked a lot for an all year tire. worked great in dry/wet/slush and performed very well. (i'm not the most conservative driver in my gti)

 

I have all season and I do fine in the snow. LOL

 

You have an X

 

Just buy a beater winter car and store the G in the garage for 3 months like I'm gonna do! Bought a new beater this year for $300 bucks. Gotta love craigslist.

 

Try the Bridgestone RE960AS pole position before you make a judgement on every all-season tire. I was sketchy about getting them after having S03 pole positions but i threw em on my 20's and they were great. I even did a canyon run with them and they never let go of the road!

 

So were they better or worse than the SO3's? I've had the older summer only RE730's and loved those. Really, I just see no reason to run all season. The best of the best all seasons will only match the summer perfomance of the run of the mill UHP summer only tire. So other than tire wear(which I don't really care about), I see no reason to use the. A dedicated summer/winter combo will outperform a single all season set in 99% of the cases, and at very little additional cost because you spread the wear on two sets of tires instead. You also save significant amounts of wear and tear on your expensive aftermarket wheels which can be stored for the winter, and no all season can hold a flame to winter tires on a rwd car in hilly seattle. Its fun watching people slide through intersections while my rwd sports coupe chugs along on my PA2's.