Summer Tires or All Season Tires?

In Pittsburgh?!
That would be "all season" if I were buying them for a car that I haul my family in......
There's no good reason not to.

I get the fact that you have snow tires mounted on separate rims, but I'm thinking that all season tires are better in the wet.
I might be wrong about that though.


Your call.
GOOD LUCK!

 

"Summer" tires are a dying breed? I think the way to go is all-seasons, supplement by snow tires where warranted.

 

perpetual summer, where do i have to move to?

 

All season Tyres = no season tyres

 

True summer-only tires are rarely used these days except on high performance / exotic cars. I've bought only two sets of summer tires in the past 25 years and they were for use on unusually fast cars that were electronically speed limited to 150 mph. Those summer tires provided incredibly better handling on dry pavement than all-season tires but they lasted only about 15,000 miles and I went back to using all-season tires in Spring/Summer/Fall.

We use Bridgestone Blizzak winter tires on our Prius v and Sienna in Winter and all-season tires the rest of the year. These vehicles are "cruisers" and I wouldn't think of looking for summer tires for them.

 

summer tires have better roll resistance, so they should help fuel consumption.
If you look at a true summer tyre, it has some parts where the rubber is completely uninterrupted when the wheel spins. Usually in the middle.
on all season tyres the same part is slightly interrupted by thin cuts
on winter tyres, ALL rubber has deep cuts and much wider than all season (2-3mm), so this way the tyre can grip into snow

 

Also the sipes on winter tires are close spaced, the tread is almost like brush bristles. And the rubber stays softer at low temps.