The RS-As are just sucking here in the snow of Minneapolis (I couldn't get up the small hill to my house the other day). I started looking into buying winter tires (w/ rims) and use the RS-As in the spring/summer/fall, but on tirerack.com there are a lot of comments that they aren't very good in just rainy weather either.
The parts guy at my local Mazda dealer recommended the Continental Extreme Concact tires as a replacement for the RS-As and they would be good enough for winter and great in both the rain and dry during the warm months. But he said they would be 215/45R17 instead of 205/50R17. Would my already bumpy ride become even more so with the Conti's lower profile, or would it be about the same? I'm not a very aggressive driver.
The ideal would be to replace the Eagles and get winter tires as well, but I can only swing one or the other this year. Any advice on this or alternatives I should consider?
The parts guy at my local Mazda dealer recommended the Continental Extreme Concact tires as a replacement for the RS-As and they would be good enough for winter and great in both the rain and dry during the warm months. But he said they would be 215/45R17 instead of 205/50R17. Would my already bumpy ride become even more so with the Conti's lower profile, or would it be about the same? I'm not a very aggressive driver.
The ideal would be to replace the Eagles and get winter tires as well, but I can only swing one or the other this year. Any advice on this or alternatives I should consider?