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Originally Posted by baege
Hey all
looking for opinions experiences on whether the AS4's can cut it for the winter if you don't have to commute.
would be going on a mid engine Rwd car
don't have a commute and don't really have to drive if conditions aren't favourable.
but at the same time would want to feel free enough that if they are calling for anything less than 2 inches of snow I would feel comfortable going out.
I know a proper dedicated set of winter tires and rims would be better but in my experience even those don't get you full confidence in a RWD powerful car in the winter and I still avoided going out in anything above 2 inches of snow.
so I am debating, can I get by on the AS4's?
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Owned a Boxster when I lived east of KC MO. That's mid engine rear wheel drive car of course. Drove it in the snow with it fitted with Pirelli high performance tires and a time or two with Michelin high performance tires. Didn't make it a habit but got caught out a couple of times.
I managed but a time or two it was white knuckle time.
AS4's are all season tires. I'm not a fan of all season tires though they are popular. Years ago all season were referred to as *no* season tires.
I note you live in Toronto. My advice would be to if you are going to drive your Cayman S (I had a 2008 Cayman S, too) in bad weather -- snow -- I'd advise you to get a set of wheels and fit proper snow tires on them.
I had Michelin all season tires on my 2002 VW Golf TDi. Which I bought just 2 months after buying my Boxster in January 2002. I bought the VW because I got caught in the snow with only my Boxster. The tires on the VW were ok and I got complacent only to darn near lose the car on a turn on a frontage road along side I40 in William AZ one snowy day.
Before I could get a set of wheels/snow tires I ended up in CA with no snow in the winter and darn little rain.
Two pics of the Boxster in two different snow storms. That 2nd pic is it parked on the hotel parking lot in Willams the same hotel parking I had driven out of in my Golf (on another trip through there) and almost lost the VW.
No pic of the Cayman S in the snow. I owned it when I lived in northern CA.
Turbo pic take at Boreal Mountain parking lot very near to Donner Ridge.
My M2 with its Michelin high performance tires will sit out the snow.