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Bruno - 23 Mar 2005 23:45 GMT

I am planning on swapping summer and winter tires on the same set of
rims, twice a year. Is it true that it's hard on the tires to do that,
and that I can end up with slow leak?

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Natman - 24 Mar 2005 00:07 GMT

>I am planning on swapping summer and winter tires on the same set of
>rims, twice a year. Is it true that it's hard on the tires to do that,
>and that I can end up with slow leak?

Sounds like an awful lot of work dismounting, mounting and rebalancing
twice a year just to avoid buying a set of steel wheels for the snow
tires.

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Bruno - 24 Mar 2005 01:30 GMT

>>I am planning on swapping summer and winter tires on the same set of
>>rims, twice a year. Is it true that it's hard on the tires to do that,
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>twice a year just to avoid buying a set of steel wheels for the snow
>tires.

I bought high performance winter tires. I don't want to run them on
crappy rims. Kinda defeats the purpose. I was going to buy an extra
set of alloy rims but, for that much money, I got a complete bedroom
set instead ;-)

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Michael Scheer - 24 Mar 2005 01:42 GMT

"High performance" in what sense? Truly good snow tires can never be
truly good warm weather/dry road tires.

>>>I am planning on swapping summer and winter tires on the same set of
>>>rims, twice a year. Is it true that it's hard on the tires to do that,
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> set of alloy rims but, for that much money, I got a complete bedroom
> set instead ;-)

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Bruno - 24 Mar 2005 02:29 GMT

>"High performance" in what sense? Truly good snow tires can never be
>truly good warm weather/dry road tires.

Agreed. But I said winter tires, not snow tires. A good portion of my
winter driving occurs on pavement. So I chose a winter tire that had
good dry/wet handling, noise levels and comfort, that handled snow
pretty well, and that wasn't manufactured by Michelin.

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TeGGer? - 24 Mar 2005 00:57 GMT

> I am planning on swapping summer and winter tires on the same set of
> rims, twice a year. Is it true that it's hard on the tires to do that,
> and that I can end up with slow leak?

Nope. If anything, you'll get LESS of a chance of a leak because the bead
seal is always fresh. And you'll have better balanced tires, too.

I used to do just that until cheap used rims became commonplace for my car.

It *is* true that the rubber on the tire's edge will develop minor
chipping, but I have never seen this cause leakage.

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