Quite right, Straight&Narrow.  En route to my house are steep hills that are often thickly iced up most winters. Visitors who bought the bigname so-called "all-season" all-weather tires soon learned the hard way that UNstudded tires canNOT grip glare ice as needed on steep or even slightly inclined roads. ((My son & I then drove our friends' newly-studless car to see for ourselves, so I'll NEVER believe manufacturers' ads pushing "all-season" tires or their "studies" unless I can first test their UNstudded tires for free on VERY ICY roads in REAL-life conditions where we LIVE.))  Our visiting friends soon returned their "all-season" fakes, prepared to buy ads blasting the manufacturer's deceptive advertising, got a 95%refund (in exchange for a keep-mum agreement), and bought another set of STUDDED tires. So much for economizing's adverse effects on personal safety in extremely icy areas.


Me, I'll buy a NEW replacement set of STUDDED tires TOMORROW, thanks to the CBC's Sen.Giessel.