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Originally Posted by samael
Actually the 225/40 Dunlops are already on my OEM rims, on the vehicle, which is the only tire/wheel combo I currently have in my possession. Even though I purchased the vehicle in July, it came shod with the winter tires. Looking more closely I can definitely see that the front sidewalls are more vertical than the rears, showing the difference in wheel width on identically sized tires.
Which is why I was thinking it would make more sense to move the Dunlops to a new set of 4 identical 18x8 rims and put a new set of staggered summer tires on the OEM rims. Which also means ordering the tires and rims separately (or at least not having the tires mounted on the new rims, considering they'll go on the existing OEM ones). It's a bit of swapping between tires and rims at the outset but that seems to make the most sense to me in the long run.
I'm not in a hurry to put summer tires back on at this point as we could very well see snow in a month here, but I'd like to at least have this situation ready to rectify come spring.
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I don't think you need to change anything and if you want 2 sets, you can consider a dedicated summer setup if you want one. By all means, it you like your OEM's as summer rims then go for that and get the squared 18x7.5 or 18x8 rims for winter like you said but if you wanted new summer rims the OEM's are more than capable of working for your winter setup. If you want new tires too then go for it but I'd stick with that sizing set up as it has worked well for most of us in the past for winters. The staggering will do more to hurt you than help when it comes to winter driving so just keep that in mind.
I would also probably say don't overestimate the weather. I am the same way, I always feel like it's gonna snow in October, yet year after year it is more like mid December. I've gone 3 years in a row ending up changing my tires in October yet not ACTUALLY needing them till about Thanksgiving weekend or Dec 1st. Right now, you're basically wearing out your winters 3x as fast riding on them in these temps so you the smart thing would be get some summers or A/S's on there pronto and then change them back to winters around in a few months (unless it gets super cold sooner).