Live in Maine, snow tires needed

[DLo]

I have a gen3 five speed and will be doing a lot of highway travel this winter and wanted to know what I should be looking for or what you all run for winter tires on your camrys?

I did a search, but did not come up with a lot of info.

If this is something that has come up recently, and I didn't see it, sorry.

DLo

[Tom 2000]

I have 4 studded snow tires mounted on steel wheels.

When it's about to snow, I simply remove the alloy wheels w/regular tires and put them on. Then after the storm passes, I just remove them and put the regular tires/wheels on.

Since it doesn't snow much in Western Washington, I put on maybe 500-700 miles on these tires every year.

For me this work fine, but since you will be doing some dedicated highway driving, I would look into a set of studless snow tires. Bridgestone Blizzaks come to mind, but there are many other fine snow tires from other manufacturers.

Take a look here for some popular packages to give you an idea

http://www.tirerack.com/snow/changeover.jsp

[[SMAN]]

When i'm not in MA, i'm driving around Vermont in the snow. The snow tires of choice that I use are Firestone Blizzaks. They grip well, but the soft rubber compound will run down quickly if you use it on dry pavement. BTW, the recent consumer reports just did a test of snow tires, allthought it might not be on the news stands yet, but i sugest you check it out.