JeffB

For those of you who have dedicated winter tires, do you use the stock wheels & keep swapping? Or do you have a second set of wheels?

And if you have a second set of wheels, where's a good place to get "reasonably priced" wheels?

Thanks for helpin' a newbie! You are GREAT!

a76marine

I just picked mine up today on Craigslist. I drove up to Milwaukee and picked them up. Total cost was $450 for 16" steelies and Blizzacks. The guy was even nice enough to use his floor jack and air wrench to put them on for me.

hyperv6

Get a second set of wheels as changing them off the wheels every years is a waste of money.

Now if you already have a stock steel wheels your best bet is to just get a good set of all season tires. If you have custom or aluminum I would get the second set of wheels just to prevent them from getting salt damage.

While winter tires do have a little better stoping distance the advantage over a good all season is not that great.

With a good set of all season tires and average snow driving skills getting a HHR through a winter is pretty much a no brainer.

In 27 years of driving in the snow belt of Lake Erie I have only used snow tires on my two of my two wheel drive trucks. All my other cars have had nothing but all season tires. To date I have yet not gotten where I was going With little drama.

With FWD, traction control, stability control and anti lock brakes you could nearly drive these things on nearly bald tires.

I am using all seasons and just came off a week of some pretty good daily snows and have yet to really have any issues. I even went into a parking lot to test out the stability control and could hardly slide the HHR in the lot enough to over come the stablilty control.

dblg HHR

Disagree. Snows make all the difference in the world IME.