I have to disagree with you regarding that there is a little difference between narrow winter tires and wide winter tires. I have two sets of dedicated winter/snow tires. 275 & 315 on 20s (tires are year old) and 255 on 18s (tires are 5 years old). I can tell you for certain that my X becomes unsettling with wider setup in mid to deep snow. I’m plowing through the snow with wider tires instead of cutting through. And on uneven patches of snow, X would often aggressively shift side to side with wider setup. I switched back to narrower 255s as I feel 200% more confident in deep snow than the wider setup even though I love the look of the wide setup on 20s.
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Originally Posted by JCL
No, your 315 summer performance setup will not perform at any pressure.
But if you had a winter tire compound and tread pattern, you could get good performance in wide profiles. Narrower is not always better, it depends on how the tire is designed to provide traction.
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