The snow/ice and a lovely curb brought me a super expensive late Christmas present this morning!

Please put all-seasons on your car if you'll be driving it in cold weather, before you hurt yourself or someone else.

I'm more worried about the temperature than anything. These tire compounds barely work right at 50°F, go any lower, add in snow/ice/rain and you're asking for trouble. The compounds are far too hard for winter driving and you'll feel like you're skating on ice if you push them at all. Your car is very heavy and needs all the traction it can get. Driving "carefully" is only going to help so much before you miscalculate or don't see a patch of black ice and slide into another curb or off the road. AWD will not help you in that situation at all.

I own cars with summer tires and have made this mistake before. Trust me, you'll feel like an idiot for causing thousands of dollars worth of damage instead of just getting good all-seasons, like Michelin PS4 A/S. Tires are significantly cheaper than suspension work. Never gonna make that mistake again, almost crashed a SQ5 that way. It's literally safer to take out my RWD convertible on good all season tires than to wake the slumbering Audi on summer tires on certain days. Feels insane, but it's physics.

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