Which Tires and rims to choose?

[tekman]

I was really not wanting to have to swap the tires on the same rims, twice a year. I'd rather just swap out the entire wheel/rim myself when winter arrives and then again when summer arrives. I know it's pretty cheap to have a tire mounted and balanced, but I'd rather avoid the hassle of haviing to do it each year.

[motordavid]

Originally Posted by tekman

I was really not wanting to have to swap the tires on the same rims, twice a year. I'd rather just swap out the entire wheel/rim myself when winter arrives and then again when summer arrives. I know it's pretty cheap to have a tire mounted and balanced, but I'd rather avoid the hassle of haviing to do it each year.

As suggested earlier, get the 'performance wheel/tire set' now. Then cop a set of used 'smaller' winter wheels with dedicated winter tires next fall for the few months you need them in winter season.

The smaller wheel/winter tire set will do wonders, it saves your 'summer set' and it's cake swapping wheels as opposed to having some knucklehead beat on your rims swapping tires twice a season, imo.
GL, mD

[JCL]

Originally Posted by tekman

I was really not wanting to have to swap the tires on the same rims, twice a year. I'd rather just swap out the entire wheel/rim myself when winter arrives and then again when summer arrives. I know it's pretty cheap to have a tire mounted and balanced, but I'd rather avoid the hassle of haviing to do it each year.

That is what I was suggesting, to have two sets of rims.

If you get the sport rims with the vehicle, you get summer performance tires. Buy a cheap set of rims with winter performance tires right away.

If you get the standard rims, you can buy larger rims with performance summer tires later, but you are stuck with the all season tires that came with the vehicle.