Need Advice on All Season Tires

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All-season tires present a bit of a conundrum. Usually they break down into three categories:

1. Reasonable in snow, mediocre in the dry
2. Reasonable in the dry, mediocre in the snow
3. Crap all around

There are only a few that fall into categories 1 & 2. The Continental ExtremeContact DWS is a good tire with a wintery twist... it's the highest rated all-season in the snow around. But it's sloppy in the dry. A tire like the Michelin Pilot Sport A/S, however, is about as close to a summer tire in the dry that an all season will get. But it absolutely blows in the snow.

If I had to live with one set of all seasons on my Z and didn't have a second car to fall back on in winter, I think I'd go for the Continental DWS simply because of the snow capability. I'll sacrifice dry weather peformance for winter survivability.

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- Steve

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