i have my stock 15 with a good all season tire, and this summer plan on upgrading to lager wheel with a good street tire that can handle light water, and keep the 15's for winter use.

 

Yeah I have blow all the spiders and miscelaneous corpses out of mine whenever a change is in order. I just put them on a pallet and stick them in a barn and pick them up with a bobcat when its time.

 

With the goodyear F1 a/s I have no need for snow tires. The winters aren't that bad nowadays so unless you're staying up north theres really no need. Just get a set of really good all seasons.

 

some people drive in climates/area's where snow tires are a requirement.. some of the roads i drive on in the winter are so bad that snow tires or chains on AWD or 4WD vehicles are required. if you don't meet these requirements, you don't get to drive these road.

i drive up almost 3,000 ft of elevation everyday. and doing it a couple winters on all seasons to doing it this winter on dedicated snow tires was a BIG difference. before i was actually a bit embarassed of the quattro's performance in snow with the A/S's. but his winter (in 2 foot snow storm after another, after another, etc...) i was very pleased. never had a problem. and never lost traction once. at least, not unintentionally loosing traction

 

yea, those were crazy
that was back before i had my a4
1986 POS chrystler lebaron with bald tires during that storm was insanity

 

On snow tires in snow, purposefully throw yourself sideways and correct. Perfect.
On performance tires in snow, purposefully throw yourself sideways and have fun hitting that fence. Perfect.

I ran snow tires this year on my stock 17s. Weather looked good, threw on my 18s with my performance tires. Snowed last night and discovered the difference this morning.

But driving sainly, it doesn't seem huge.

 

I was sitting on I-70 just above morrison and it was snowing so thick that I had to keep getting out to bounce the wipers and I swear it was hard to breathe for the amount of snow that was falling. People were just going nowhere and sliding off the road into the guard rails, it was out of control. We just crawled right through it with no problem.

 

Wow, where are you going in these snow storms, and what type of vehicles are in the parking lot when you get there? Do you drive a snow plow?

 

I'm in lower Fairfield county here snow is not all that bad but where I live it's not always plowed yet so 5 inches of snow and trying to drive up a small hill just to get out.

I can't figure out if this 2000 A4 has a EDL or not.. it's the model with the one peice headlighs and OEM Xenons.

I don't see a ESP button in the car.

 

I was working at Beaver Creek. In the parking lots were mainly hummers and excursions....the usual gaspigs