FYI, the tech articles section has some good info both on behind the scenes details (backspacing, wheel width etc) and year/pictures... It's easy to miss and jump straight to the forum.
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I pulled up the weather days info just so I could figure out if you really really need dedicated snow tires, and I am gonna suggest against dedicated snow.
"Carson" on your profile is Carson City, right?
In Carson City, the summers are hot, arid, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 22°F to 89°F and is rarely below 11°F or above 96°F.
weatherspark.com
My suggestion, just go with all season tires.
4 reasons:
1) space in the garage, you have to deal with a stack of tires always taking up space
2) hassle of changing, you have to swap in the spring and fall each year - quite possibly having to pay if you have a tire shop do that
3) warranty headache, all the tire shops I have experience with (in Colorado) basically just throw away any warranty when you are running 2 sets swapping - they wont keep track of mileage and just say "we can't warranty it cause we have no way to verify the actual mileage"
4) cost - wheels aren't free, you have to buy them somewhere even if they are pretty cheap at the junk yard.... and then they spend 1/3 of their life taking up space not getting use of the money.
Now if you lived in northern Wisconsin I would absolutely say get steelies and studded winter tires sure.
That suggestion also comes with a caveat - local conditions... In Colorado the green hippie folks in Boulder screamed and screamed at the state and convinced them to "use less salt" - so when it snows they put sand (really small gravel - rice size pebbles) down in all but the worst weather and only do salt once or twice a year and that is only in off years (el nino or la nina - I forget which). If Carson uses salt all the time religiously, I would run steelies (the salt eats up nice wheels, not so much steel).
Size wise, if you are looking for more options than 2 vendors... welcome to the club
My '90 has stock 14" - and the few options are now more expensive than (smaller profile, still stock ride height) 15 or 16" - hence I am upgrading to 16" when this set wears out.
1010tires has a "Tire Size Calculator" in their Tech section that is a pretty good tool for figuring out options and other things you could do if you change wheel size.
Based off your 235/60x15 in your first post they give suggestions for tires and clearly show how much your speedometer will be off (going to a different size means 99% of the time the speedo and
odo are gonna be off).
Here's a comparison of your 235/60x15 versus 4 that are within 2% the same size
Nice thing about their tire size calculator - just 2 more clicks from there you can see how many mfg make(/made) tires in that size.
I picked 215/65x15 because they are a closer size than anything else (1010 tires says 60 different tires are available in that size):
After I picked 2 or 3 different sizes based on what 1010tires has to say, I went to the "real world" and put those sizes in my vendor of choice (discount tire) and picked tires & sizes they really actually have. (Note the /made past tense in the last item - not everything 1010tires says exists STILL exists - some are discontinued).
Discount Tire says there are 22 tires available*:
Discount Tire
www.discounttire.com
*"available" is sometimes a lie here - they will list "out of stock" stuff that is never gonna be back in stock or even recently "discontinued" but not removed from the computer yet - so look through how many are really actually available.
Don't forget to pay attention to you wheel width versus the suggested wheel width for various tires - in my example above you would be going from a 235 wide to a 215 wide tire - perfectly fine if your wheel is in the range for both, but an issue if you had really wide wheels (too wide for the 215) got to remember to keep it in mind.
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