New guy - a little help please......

[Boston X5 4.4]

Originally Posted by motordavid

OT: Good to see you/read you, back on the Board, Boston!
BR,mD

Cheers MD - glad to see you're still on da 'board

[UCrewX5]

Ken - I'll go ahead and put a plug in for Premier Membership. It's a small way of supporting the site, and it comes with some fringe benefits to boot. Purely voluntary, but we do encourage folks that benefit from the site to give something back as a way to keep the board humming along - http://www.xoutpost.com/payments.php

Best regards,
Jeff

[Ken]

Thanks Jeff. I'll take a look at the Premier Membership aspect of being a member.

I'm aware that these sites don't run on love alone. From my short stint here, albeit an expensive one......, seems most are well behaved and have lots of good advice to share, more importantly, that they do willingly share.

Good stuff.....that.

Thanks again Jeff,

Ken

[UCrewX5]

Ken - some addition details on Premier Membership, in case you were interested - http://www.xoutpost.com/miscellaneou...donations.html

[ssan586]

Hey, Ken...way too bad you didn't find this forum prior to your purchase. What many do not get is that summer tires are just that, and winter tires are, well...just that.

My .02? Well, if one does not live in the North-Eastern or Mid-Western (etc.) areas of US...or muddy/sandy/snowy parts of other areas on this planet, a good all season tire is really the way to go for most to have good wet/dry performance, and get around when it's snowy. Summer tires provide amazing dry and wet performance (from cool to hot water temperatures), but, they're essentially useless in icy and/or snowy conditions. If it never snows where you live, these are ideal.

Winter tires are ideal in areas that get tons of snow/ice, and rarely a day on the glacier, I mean, beach! They're loud and slippery on dry ground, but will get you up a mountain of snow in a rear-wheel drive Chevette with 85 HP carrying a huge payload!

For snow, the way to go is higher profile either all season or snow tires.

For year 'round sun and rain only, summer tires are great.

For year 'round sun and rain with the occasional snow each year, all seasons are ideal.

I wanna say so much more, but, I'm sleepy...to be continued if one wants me to say more...lol...geez, I'm exhausted!