Originally Posted by Nightrider

Actuallly the person that told me that was Bruce customer service supervisor at tirerack.com. "The winter treads will overcome the AS treads while braking and cause the car to be unstable. There's been lawsuits over deaths caused by this. And we care to much for our customers to put them at risks" I asked him if he was going to sell me the 2 rear tires and he refused...all four or none.

I imagine an aggressive tread on a front wheel drive might cause this but my garden was well fertilized on that one. I had a similiar experience at Town Faire Tire (a New England tire chain). tirerack.com did not make a similiar claim on the F1's as no one seems to have 255/35's in stock so the arguement would be mote. One of the 2 made a similiar cliam about Blizzaks.