[Shop-talk] chains vs snow tires

[Scott Hall]

I've got a stupid question: when do you use snow tires?

For example, it snowed six inches or so here last night, and I know I'd
like some snow tires right now since the roads are still covered with snow
and slush and only a few bare patches of pavement. By tonight, though,
everything will have been plowed repeatedly and driven over such that the
only snow I'll drive over will be a few patches in our parking lot before
they melt by the end of this week.

So...what do you do when you're only driving over actual 'snow' a few times
a year? Do you still put on snow tires and leave them on until spring?
It'll be cold here until early March, but I'll only drive on actual snow a
few minutes per year. The rest of the time there will be paved roads.

I'd ignore the whole issue, but even on my .8 mile commute home last night
I got sideways at every intersection and the traction control and stability
control were going crazy. And I never got over 20 m.p.h. It was a
TREMENDIOUS amount of fun (it was 11:00 p.m. and I was the only one out)
but there was really no question of going anywhere except home and then
staying there. If I'd had to have driven somewhere, well, that would have
been bad.
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