I am a 76 year old who bought a 2006 Porsche Cayenne S, Titanium edition in December 06.
Since I put on a little less than 20000 miles, I put it in the shop with the dealer for its first service appointment. I noticed the tires showed wear and asked service to advise how many more miles I would get out of them. To my surprise I was advised that the tires should be replaced and advised the service manager to replace them.
Previously I have owned and put hundreds of thousands of miles on 3 different Mercedes and one BMW. sedans. Two of them were 8 cylinder vehicles. I do not recall any of them having the tire wear I experienced with the Cayenne but I consider the Cayenne the best car I have ever driven. I figured the tire wear. like the fuel consumption was the price of "fahrvergnuegen" of the Cayenne.
After replacing the tires, I did a little research on the net and discovered the original and replacement tires were summer Pirelli Rosso high performance tires not recommended for driving in snow or freezing weather and replacement at even less than 20000 miles on the Cayenne was not unusual
We live in Southwest Georgia and get no snow but we have family in the mountains of central Pennsylvania where they get plenty of snow and we intend to be driving up there in November and December over the holidays and expect to be doing so in the coming years..
I guess it would make sense to invest in winter tires for the trip up there and then replace the winter tires with the summer tires when we return to Georgia for the rest of the year. When both tires have to be replaced I guess I could consider all season tires depending on the performance sacrifice.
My question is if I do get two sets or tires for the two seasons should I also get an additional separate set of wheels or could I alternate the tires between the existing single set of wheels. Since I have titanium wheels, I would assume they are expensive.
I would appreciate any advice along these lines