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It might be just me but I found this a good demonstration and maybe useful to someone.

Speaking of a good deal, it sure does help when you're dealing with someone where money isn't much of a concern. Case in point, I drive a '95 Lumina with only 117K and never winter driven safety checked for $3500 that I picked up just over two years back. Nice Michelin tires on it with plenty of tread. I bought steel rims and winter tires for it. There was some sidewall cracking on the Michelins that was getting to the point where they wouldn't pass a safety and I was getting concerned. So I did a search on Marketplace and came across an add for some almost new BF Goodrich Advantage tires and alloy rims. They had cost $1200 at costco installed and had only been used for two months. They were asking $450 for them but after checking the rims didn't fit my car so I told them I was going to keep looking as I had found a good price locally. Turns out two of those tires weren't good so I passed on them and decided to keep looking. Bad time of the year though as it's all snow tires for sale. So a couple of weeks later I contacted them again and offered them $300 for the tires only so they could sell the rims separately. They came back to me and said to take them all for the $300 so the next day I went and picked them up and sure enough they looked brand new still. Well the neighbourhood they lived in was strictly high end homes with a Mercedes in the driveway so it was obvious that money was of no concern, he just wanted to get rid of the tires. Rims are in great shape so I know I'll easily be able to get $100 for them so these $1200 tires will end up costing me $200 plus install, now that's a great deal that will last me a long time with only summer use.

Ritchie B. one of the greats !!

When I was a young teen, this floored me .......

Snow Tires for sure - and the studs should be allowed for anyone that wants to run them, anywhere in the Country. If you have never tried a car or truck equipped with a good agressive set of studs in winter tires , you should. I run an all wheel drive, with X-ice studded winter tires, better stopping and traction than dry pavement in summer. If every vehicle on the roads was equipped like that there would be 50% less accidents in winter. But as some previous post said, if it was logical and made life safer, our moron politicians will have none of it, unless of course, they somehow get another raise from it.

Absolutely Kelvin, there's no comparison when driving in snow between summer tires & good winter tires and people that disagree with that are the ones I like to stay away from on the roads in winter. I remember a time many years ago we were driving up a steep hill on a country road covered in deep snow. I had a front wheel drive Buick Riviera with winter tires on all 4 corners and that car was amazing in snow. There were about 6 cars all over the road that couldn't get up the hill. I just wound my way thru them and climbed the hill like it was a warm summer day LOL