When is everyone that running winter tires planning to switch back to summer? I am on the fence right now on switching back. The weather seems to be hovering in the high 40s / low 50s in Michigan right now.
If it does snow, I can always swap them back if I needed to.
It is a complete separate wheel/tire/tpms set, if that matters. It's not that big of an issue to swap in the garage but laziness is a factor for unnecessary swaps.
You may wish to take a look at your weather predictions for later this week, early next week in case they look like Colorado's.
Kind of a judgement call. Winter tires also tend to be better for traction at colder temperatures than summer ones. Which means they tend to wear more in these weird high temperature spells.
If you are a betting man, I'll take a few bucks on whatever you do turning out to be wrong.
After about 10 years of switching tires seasonally.... I'm done...
The cold reality of it is.... we don't get Midwestern winters anymore like we did in the 70's and early 80's. Yes, maybe a foot once every season and maybe a few bad days in a row. But nothing that the GC can't handle with it's normal good quality all season year around shoes. It just isn't worth the effort, expense, storage, and time, for one decent bit of snow every year. I fully understand if you live in CO or mountain passes etc, but for the Lower Great Lakes area it just ain't what it used to be....
As you said the key in this situation is, "But nothing that the GC can't handle with it's normal good quality all season year around shoes."
Summer tires does not fall in the category of all season or all weather tires. It is all about the tire compound and how it reacts in cold temps. The stock tires are hit and misses in the winter, so be careful out there.
Right now here in the Northeast, we have unseasonably high temps and going have rain again during in February.
In any event, I have seen some nice winter returns in the month of March with very low temps, snow and ice conditions. You never know what Mother Nature has up her sleeve. And sometimes, she has treats in April and not of the April rain shower kind.
Oh well, it is your choice drive or be grounded when it hits.
As you said the key in this situation is, "But nothing that the GC can't handle with it's normal good quality all season year around shoes."
Summer tires does not fall in the category of all season or all weather tires. It is all about the tire compound and how it reacts in cold temps. The stock tires are hit and misses in the winter, so be careful out there.
No disrespect, but we haven't had a snow in nearly 40 years ( Blizzard of 1978 30+ inches..9 ft drifts) That would GROUND ( Your words ,not mine...) a JGC with decent all weather tires...
And as you can see in my signature, I have one of the highest rated replacement tires for the JGC. The Fortera's were junk, I agree, but hey I got 40+k, 2 non event winters, and my money's worth out of them....I wouldn't do summer tires any more than I wouldn't do winter tires for all the same reasons stated above... And I USED to do that.
Nothing environmentally warrants dedicated snows where we live any more on a Quadra trac equipped jeep...
And if another 40 year storm happens to show up once more in my lifetime, a Jeep with farm tractor tires wouldn't get you out of your driveway in a 3 day storm like that.....
That pretty well summed it up for many years, but the last 2-3 winters have been nothing but typical. So far this winter, we've had more rain than snow, in my area.....