I grew up in Santa Clara. I moved up here about 7 years ago. I went to Wilcox High.

 

ahh icic, what you do in santa rosa?

 

I just got a set of 205/55 M2s a coupel weeks ago... and of course there's been no snow in Reno since. Next time we get ice and snow I'll do a full review on them. So far in the dry they're not tht bad actually. I really should set my sway bar back to 20mm from 24, but I just take care on the roundabouts on my commute for now...

 

Seems like a good place to post this question, I just got my Wrx a few weeks ago. And I just got a taste of my current tires in the snow, basicly they suck. I was thinking of getting some Continental ContiExtremeContacts. My friend has some on his mustang they seem to eat through the snow and be a good all season tire.

Well I can't find them in the stock wrx rim size, I was woundering if it would be fine to bring it up to a 215/55/16 on the stock rims? Has anyone had any problems doing this?

 

It's better to stick to stock size. For snow tires I'd recommend either the Dunlop WinterSport M2s ($89) M3s($105) or Michelin AlpinSport2s ($115 I think).

 

you dont like the blizzaks ban? i know you swear by so-3's

 

Oh yeah those too. I've never actually used snow tires in snow myself. That's just the cumulative recommendation of all the friends with Subarus up here (probably 12-15... all autocross or track their Scoobs). I've heard good things about Blizzaks but they're a bit more expensive,a nd since he was asking about Contis I figured budget was a concern.

 

well i put up a review on the blizzaks, maybe i'll try and get myself stuck somewhere and then see if i can get out lol

 

Not really, especially with WRX wheels. But no real benefit in snow, and it's better to have the 205s the rest of the time.

 

Michelin tends to make good snows in my experience . . . I spend the little bit extra for the alpins

 

Yeah, I almost went the extra $80 for the Michelins, but I would have had to wait an extra 2 weeks, and didn't want to risk another ice storm here.