I bought a new car, as I mentioned in another thread. It snowed noticably over the last few days, so now I've got experience with this car and snow/ice.
I don't like what I'm seeing.
The car came with Michelin all-season tires. Par for the course as I understand it. No biggie, until I tried to get up the hill to my parking lot yesterday evening. At that point, I had a bit of a problem. Ditto this morning when I tried to get out of my parking space. Bleh.
I had water-shedding tires on my previous car. That car never had a problem on snow or in rain. So I just called up my dealer to talk about this, and what can I do. He's got to speak with his service department, but he told me of an offer he saw on their counter: "snow" tires and wheels, $700, which is a bit more than I'm ready to spend given that I've yet to make the first payment on my car.
I don't know what they mean by snow tires these days, especially for a front-wheel drive car, but I intend to find out. I'm wondering what people here might have to say about this. I know that the water-shedding tires did well for me for years, but I'm not sure if that's what they mean by "snow tires", or if they mean a more traditional snow tire. Anyone know?
Oh, by the way, Halx: snow is this white dandruff-like cold stuff that falls from the sky. They tell you not to eat the yellow version of it.
And the heated mirrors worked VERY nicely this morning. Melted the frozen glaze right off.