Mike Romain > wrote:

>I live in Canada where winter tires are needed and worked in garages for
>a number of years and the best is to have spare rims and tires. The
>tires suffer some amount of damage every time they get removed, do it
>enough times and they leak or need tubes.
>
>The shops around here offer sales on rims when it's winter tire season
>usually.

OK thanks

Sounds like I better plan on a set of rims as well

Done deal..... have put a note in my online calendar to
start looking/buying next October. Or...should I look
in the summer when rims might be cheaper, etc?