Interesting.

You can rid yourself of the issue by going to all season tires, but then you lose the tenacious summer grip. The other alternative is to get a summer set and a winter set as many people have done.

Go to your local F1 paddock and pickup some tire warmers.

Dang, it rarely gets 70+ in the summer here. Maybe 10 days in the year.

50+ isn't a big deal, just need to warm the tires up with some aggressive lateral loading. They definitely prefer 70+ though in order to reach peak operating temperature.

Yes, we have so many of those :rofl2:

So now we need tire warmers, engine block heater, transmission oil heater, and of course the most important, seat heaters.

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Yeah, I'm actually considering that. Or spend some more $$ and get a new set of wheels and tires for the summer and keep the Rays and rap them with some Blizzaks for the winter. Maybe I don't need the Blizzaks though. I'm not looking for an excuse to drive in the snow with the Z. So perhaps something along the lines of what you said, "all season tires".

If you are going to just drive the car on the nice winter days and there is absolutely zero chance that you will encounter ice, go with the all seasons for the winter weather. If you might encounter ice or light snow then go with Blizzak's or X-Ice.