Sunday, November 20, 2011

Our cars in winter mode

Winter is almost here. It dropped into the 20s last night in Portland and we had some freezing fog.

This year I picked up a set of used 15" alloy wheels and shod them with a set of gently used 205/65/15 General Altimax studded tires. Coupled with all-wheel drive, the SX4 should be a snowmobile--just in time for ski/snowboard season. Speaking of, I need to put my ski rack on.

The Yaris uses the same setup as last year: 14" steel wheels (via our old Honda Civic) wrapped in 185/65/14 Hankook iPike studded snow tires. These proved themselves last year in the snow and ice last season. I hope the General tires are as good as these.

Bring on winter!



2 comments:

brickauto said...

Nice winter setup! What's the offset for the 15" alloy wheels you used on the SX4?

Andy Lilienthal said...

I think the 15s are a +38.