Winnipesaukee Forum - View Single Post - Winter tires not really needed here in central N.H.

fatlazyless · 12-09-2025, 01:10 PM

VIP-Laconia's internet tire suggestion came up with five different winter tires. The Toyo Observe GSI-6, 195/60R16 is the least expensive at $95-each plus about $35 installation charge per tire, each tire for a total of $550/four tires. This 2014 Scion xD came with four new Toyo tires, all-season, and they seem to go excellent driving no faster than 75-mph. I think the VIP-Laconia does a really good job with their tire installations, at least for me on two different sets of four and five tires.

Best feature is probably that it holds the asphalt road better in cold temps, when the road has no snow. I think all-season have less winter gripping tire rubber ingredients than the winter tire? Winter tires supposedly stick to the cold asphalt better than all-season?

In late March 2023 I was very close to a black Honda Pilot w/ Mass plates who passed me in the left lane on Rt 93-n about a mile north of Exit 24-Ashland where it flattens out, atop the hill, and this Honda Pilot must have been going 75-80 during a slushy, icy snowstorm. Anyway, this large black car did a total, up-in-the-air, backwards somersault, and landed upside down in the snowy median area.

Did it lose traction on the front tires on the icy snow, and the traction on the rear tires made it do a backwards flip-flop and fly past me, upside-down ......... holy crap?

12-09-2025, 01:10 PM	#4
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 9,174 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 310 Thanked 1,103 Times in 812 Posts	VIP-Laconia's internet tire suggestion came up with five different winter tires. The Toyo Observe GSI-6, 195/60R16 is the least expensive at $95-each plus about $35 installation charge per tire, each tire for a total of $550/four tires. This 2014 Scion xD came with four new Toyo tires, all-season, and they seem to go excellent driving no faster than 75-mph. I think the VIP-Laconia does a really good job with their tire installations, at least for me on two different sets of four and five tires. Best feature is probably that it holds the asphalt road better in cold temps, when the road has no snow. I think all-season have less winter gripping tire rubber ingredients than the winter tire? Winter tires supposedly stick to the cold asphalt better than all-season? In late March 2023 I was very close to a black Honda Pilot w/ Mass plates who passed me in the left lane on Rt 93-n about a mile north of Exit 24-Ashland where it flattens out, atop the hill, and this Honda Pilot must have been going 75-80 during a slushy, icy snowstorm. Anyway, this large black car did a total, up-in-the-air, backwards somersault, and landed upside down in the snowy median area. Did it lose traction on the front tires on the icy snow, and the traction on the rear tires made it do a backwards flip-flop and fly past me, upside-down ......... holy crap? __________________ .... Banned for life from local thrift store! Last edited by fatlazyless; 12-10-2025 at 05:08 AM.