I'm ordering my car today and am having second thoughts about ordering the summer tires, seeing as how summer is over.

I live in Oregon. It snows probably an average of 2 days a year with another 3 days of ice or so. And I don't necessarily plan on driving in that anyways. It does rain quite frequently though.

Are the summer tires still a good option at this point? Do they work the same or better than the stock tires in the rain? Anyone have an estimate on how long they last (mileage-wise) compared to the stock tires?

I have to order today, so I'm looking for all the information I can get, and fast.

Thanks in advance, all!

 

you dont want summer tires in the winter, in fact you dont 17's in the winter i got me some steel 15's with blizzaks

 

if it only snows two days out of the year i wouldnt worry about getting snow tires... "summer" tires will do fine in rainy/somewhat icey conditions but i wouldnt reccomend them if you live at the north pole or some ****

 

ended up going for the stock tires. I figure I can use those as my "winter" tires and put the extra $200 towards a set of performance tires later on. Hope I made a decent choice.

 

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have u mounted the 15's on teh car?
i heard the smallest the new fg can go is 16

 

the DX comes w/15" wheels...

now that obviously fits all non-si

don't know about the SI though

and dont know why you would want such small rims on an FG

 

if u get summer tires on teh 17s get 16s with narrow(205/55) winter tires. i ordered up some rota slippies for the R, if they fit the SI ill order up the tires for winter, when spring comes throw on a fresh set or R comps for the R for summer.

 

I went with the all-seasons. I'll call them my "winter tires" until it dries up again, then I'll decide if I want to put the $200 I saved toward some proxes or something