All Season Tires

[986sport]

I switched to Kumho all-seasons on the Boxster I just bought, because I don't drive that much (<7500 mi per year), and I've always had all-seasons on all my cars in SE PA. I don't have to drive in snowstorms, and wait until the roads are plowed. I had all-seasons on my old Z3 for two years, and never had any problem in the winter. And the Boxster, being mid-engined, should have more traction--even with 18" wheels.

The important thing here about all-seasons is temperature--they don't lose their traction in dry or wet roads below 40 F, as summer tires do. True snow tires are mainly used in my area on trucks that need to be out in snowstorms. Funny I can recall 30 years ago when people would put studded snow tires on the rears--not true anymore. Maybe there's less snow. Maybe all-seasons weren't made then. You do want the ones that read "M + S", as the Kumho ASXs do.

[djomlas]

or even better chains hehehe, now i love that
im also looking at some All season tires as well...

yeah, temperature sure means a lot, i drove trough the winter on pretty bald summer tires, an well it wasn't fun, but the colder it got the worse off it was.
but when you wanted to have fun in a empty parking lot kinda place it sure was fun.

[kls]

I have an '04 boxster with 18" wheels and I recently bought the 960 Pole Position tires and I love them. I only have about 2K miles on them so I can't give you a full review, but they track better (not influenced by rutted pavement) than my previous tires and are very quiet. I cannot speak much for traction, because I don't push them extremely hard, and they will never see ice or snow. For my driving the traction is fine.

I got the tire because of the rating on Tirerack.com, and my impression is that they won't hold as well as many of the extreme performance tires, but are better all round, and should wear much longer.