Jarhead, any winter tire is gonna be freaking awesome.

Best vehicle I ever had in snow...

'86 Civic WagoVan 4wd.
Yes, I had a 4wd Civic. Put some Dunlop Graspics on that mofo, and when the roads were crappy, it'd go anywhere my CJ7 couldn't scrabble for traction.


Course, it weighed more than the CJ and had probably 1/4 the horsepower and tiny tires. It also didn't have a carb that caught on fire on occasional cold starts...but that's a whole 'nuther story

Good to know, god knows she needs all the help she can get to keep her eclipse pointed in a consistant direction. While I'm at it I should put throttlestops and a governer on it that detects freezing temperatures. She has no patience what so ever for driving carefully in the snow, I've seen her do 360's going down the street correct it and just keep going. So ill probably replace the tires with blizzaks and tell her theyre just cheepass tires and to be real careful when it's slick out and maybe that tactic will provide better results.

If she drives up under one of you guys jeeps,,, I'm sorry.. rest assured she does have very good insurance

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I'll plug those Blizzaks again. They are fanatstic on the (not so mini ) mini van.

A true winter tire has a tread design optimized for ice & snow as well as a compound that lets it be sticky at lower temps where most compounds are hard as a rock. That is one reason that most true winter tires do not last a lot of miles, especially if you drive them in hot weather where they are practically melting. Car & Driver did a piece a couple of years ago where they run 3 goodyear tires on a vette: 1 all purpose, one summer-only high performance, and 1 winter version. The winter version achieved skid pad numbers equal to the summer-only tire, but the hard use had the tread on the winter tire almost gone after a couple of tests on summer asphalt.

An A/T tire fits that old "jack of all trades, master of none" adage to a "T".

TBJ: They still make a civic station wagon, they just call it a CR-V.

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Yeah, but the CR-V is never locked front to rear, and and doesn't have a "granny low" when in 4wd;)