ORIGINAL: Boston Driver

Those are good tires for all-seasons, but of course, being able to use thsem in all seasons winter and summer means that you are compromising performance in all those seasons as well. A true summer tire will never work in winter, but is the ultimate tire for our cars in the other 8 months of the year. A true winter tire is a great way to make sure you can move in the deep stuff, but of course, is only really needed when it is snowing. 90% of the time, the winter roads are dry but cold, so true winters are not "erquired" but a plus to have.

However, most will not run two sets of wheels (due to cost or storage) or two sets of tires on one set of wheels (twice paying for mounting and balancing every year to swap out), so the all-seaon is a good compromise. The Conti Extreme Contacts are rated as one of the best all-season tires. I run Dunlop M3 snowsports for winter (on my stock wheels), but the rest of the year I run Pirelli PZeroNero M&S tries...all-seasons, just in case of the late fall or early spring snow. I have had three sets of Conti Extreme Contacts before...two were out of round, adn the 3rd was hard to get balanced properly, even using the Hunter road force machine.