I don’t do too much snow driving in this car either. My wife drives a honda element that is AWD so I take that when it snows and she takes the mazda because she only drives like 2 minutes to get to work. How many miles do you have an yours so far? I am hoping that my next set of tires will be me at least 40K miles or so. I don’t do any racing and don’t drive them to hard. It is really just for commuting and running errands. Do you think that is too much to expect from these tires?