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      04-15-2013, 02:57 PM   #42
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I think your compromise will become whether you want the ability to actually deal with snow, which will greatly reduce the handling potential, or the ability to handle well, which will negate or greatly reduce the ability to deal with snow.

Our Michelins were passable in light snow, but you had to remember that you were driving a compromised car, leaving tons of room in front of you and certainly not trying anything even remotely aggressive. They were okay in dry traction in the warmer months, but squealed much sooner than real summer tires and would roast with the open rear diff of the 1er. They were a good, probably very good compromise tire, which it sounds like what you're looking for, that allowed me to keep my M Coupe on PSS's year round, knowing that we had a fall back car. But then we didn't live in the Great White North, but Texas.
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