Thank you all for the great feedback!!
Java Junky, if you don't mind me asking, is Stewie a common name for an S2000? I am new here, so please excuse my ignorance. Thank you.
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Originally Posted by Java Junky
The narrower tire bein' better in the snow is from the true North guys that hafta deal with great, heapin' portions of the white stuff. They're gettin' traction with the 4 wheel drive by gettin' the aggressive tread down near the pavement, or as close as possible. But they've got considerably more ground clearance than we do. With somethin' like our Stewies, I'm not so sure that that's the way to go. Our ground clearance is so slight that if thinner tires cut their way down into the deeper snow, we might find ourselves, in sailor's terms "high n' dry" as in Stewie restin' on it's belly in snow while the wheels dig down n' eventually jus' dangle.
When it gets to be real snow, (oh, 6-8 inches or so I guess is my "leave-Stewie-where-it-sits" point) I can't see riskin' havin' all that aluminum sittin' in some snow bank waitin' for some bozo to come along with a plow.
What I like about the stock width winter tires over narrower ones is that there's less of a difference between the handlin' with the regular tires and with the winters at regular width. I suspect that narrower winter tires would have an even more pronounced difference in the dry portion of winter and I prefer to give up as little of Stewie's handling even in winter.
Hey, I don't pretend to know which is better or how it'd play out. To do that you'd hafta try both ways, right?
That's why we're on this site sharin' n' comparin' experience.
So, as I'm obviously not the only nut-case runnin' aroun' in a Stewie in the winter snow, let's keep in touch n' keep comparin' notes.
Be well.
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