Poll

How do you deal with snow and tires?

Same wheels and tires all year round
5 (9.8%)
Same rims but I get the tires swapped for snows in the fall
5 (9.8%)
Summer tires on nice rims and black steel wheels with snow tires
19 (37.3%)
Nice rims for both sets
22 (43.1%)
heading south, don't care.
0 (0%)

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Offline PJ

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Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« on: October 14, 2013, 08:42:07 pm »
Heard people talking about winter wheels lately so curious about who does what.  Also never did a poll before and thought I'd give it a go.
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2013, 08:50:23 pm »
Black steels without caps around here say "yeah, baby, I'm on snows..."
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2013, 08:52:56 pm »
I'm hoping more, "Nice rims for both sets".  We're supposed to be car people FFS.

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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2013, 08:56:35 pm »
I voted "nice rims for both sets" although I'm not sure $100 alloys from Tirerack really qualify.  ;D
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2013, 09:28:57 pm »
Alloys tend to get wrecked in these parts.
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2013, 09:31:48 pm »
My cars came with black steelies and caps.   I bought alloys for summer and reused the black rims & caps for winter tires.   Simple to swap. 


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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2013, 09:32:13 pm »
I just bought a new set of Michelin X-Ice 2.  ;D
Same steel wheels for both seasons though, I see no point spending $$ on a nice set of wheels for my particular van. :P
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2013, 09:32:30 pm »
Quote from: Twin Turbo Bob on October 14, 2013, 08:52:56 pm
I'm hoping more, "Nice rims for both sets".  We're supposed to be car people FFS.

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Exactly! I hate black steelies
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2013, 09:55:09 pm »
Audi had just the tires swapped...it was leased
BMW had nice for both.  OEMs for winter
GTI  black steelies for winter
M-B nice for both.  OEMs for summer


Fit black steelies all year It came with them and had another set for winter.
New Fit same.      Mrs tpl just does not care.   A -> B is it for her.
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2013, 10:00:53 pm »
Nice separate winter rims for the Berlin taxi but brand new shiny black steelies for the Sierra snows.
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Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2013, 10:08:17 pm »
My winter wheels
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« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2013, 10:12:52 pm »
Good good.
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2013, 10:21:50 pm »
I consider black steelies a Canadian badge of honour.
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2013, 10:43:48 pm »
Quote from: DKaz on October 14, 2013, 10:21:50 pm
I consider black steelies a Canadian badge of honour.

I consider them crap.  For me OEM alloys = Winter wheels.
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2013, 10:58:24 pm »
Yeah, the OE alloys are for winter and a nice set of aftermarket rims for summer. I've run OE alloys (Honda, then VW) for 14 winters and never had any issues whatsoever.

But the truck wears the OE alloys in summer and gets a decent-looking set of chromed steelies (also OE, but from a lower trim) for winter.

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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2013, 11:16:51 pm »
The TSX runs on grey steelies in the winter, OE alloys in the summer. CR-V runs the OE alloys all year with a switch over.
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2013, 12:11:27 am »
I originally had black steelies for our previous TSX. Thought it looked cool at first ("I'm running on snows!"), but then realized I really didn't have to spend much more for good looking set of alloys... 

From then on, we've purchased alloys for our cars. Winters are long, at around 5 months.

- BMW M3: Replica competition wheels.

- Mazda MX-5: Original OEM alloys (bought off another owner). Pic is not of our car but is what our car will look like (same colored car, same wheels).

- Our 'baby' miata has a cheap set of alloys as I bought the set used from another owner.
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Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #17 on: October 15, 2013, 06:30:41 am »
Black steelies with mismatched cheap of wheel covers.

In the winters here, no one looks at your wheels.


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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #18 on: October 15, 2013, 08:51:53 am »
Black steelies all the way for me.  Screw the rest of you sissies.   :rofl:
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Re: Winters coming, pop quiz.. what do you do?
« Reply #19 on: October 15, 2013, 08:52:09 am »
My name is Weels and I am a sissy.   :P

Posting this picture again as my shaming.
Got steelies for the S60 when I bought it in March 2011.  They made me 'an offer i can't refuse' on this set that were an end of season clearout.  So i said F-it I can live with these.

Never again.   

The car does tend to look like crap through most of the winter, but with the steelies, it looks 1,000 x worse.
It is unstoppable though with anything you can point it through.

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