best all-season snow tire?

[madmaniac]

whats up fellas. 1998 acura intergra se
im up in NY and i see snow this weekend in the forcast. right now i have my girl running on high performance summer tires. can anyone recommend a cheap good snow tire? i will be alternating them back and forth between seasons. any help appreciated.

[madmaniac]

im leaning towards the Bridgestone Blizzak WS-50

anyone have any negative comments about this tire?

[whtteg]

Wish I could help ya, but I live in GA and well we just don't have that much snow. It might snow like 3 times a year here lol.
I am going to put this in the Wheels/Tires section, you will probably get better answers there.

[Greenblurr93]

I have Toyo Spectrums on my civic and i absolutley love them, awsome snow handling and good rain and dry handling

[LongBaller]

Well your title says all season-snow tire-kinda of an oxymoron but the closest would be the Nokian NRW or WR (great all-seasons with a significant predisposition toward winter handling-with no appreciable loss in dry weather performance). As for other all-seasons the 2nd tier would be Pirelli PZero Nero M+S's and the Goodyear Tripletread-(an awesome all-season).
As for more inexpensive TRUE snow tires I would look at the Dunlop Graspic DS2, Goodyear Ultra Grip Ice, Hankook W440 or W300, or possibly the Toyo Observe Garit HT.
The WS-50 is a pretty good tire but the biggest knock-and it's a big one-is the fact that it doesn't communicate much to the driver and has the tendency to suddenly break away at the cornering limit. Otherwise it's an ok all-around winter shoe.

[CivicSiRacer]

Definitely Nokian tires. I have the Nokian Hakkapellitta 2s on my Civics and never got stuck or had problems in the deep stuff. Even use them for snowcross

If not my wife's Protege5 had Dunlop SP5000s on her car and they were worked surprisingly well in the one dumping we had at the beginning of this year.