I'm trying to figure out how to outfit my '90 240 with tires to handle what will be thrown at it in the coming months. My daughter is planning to take this car back to college with her this year. Home is in Texas and college is in northern New York in lake effect snow country.

Ideally I would set her up with two sets of wheels and tires and no further thought would be needed. However, given the situation it would be hard for her to swap wheels and store them somewhere. (I suppose she could use them as furniture).

So I'm looking for some advice. One option would be to get as a good an all season tire as possible. However, my experience with any all season tire in the snow is that they are anything but good. Not driving in the snow is not really practical given the amount and frequency of snow possible.

Another option is to outfit the car with snow tires, drive it to NY, and the it spend the end of summer, fall, and winter on those tires. When it's back for the summer I can swap wheels until it's time to leave again. This approach would expose the winter tires to extreme temperatures on the journey from TX to NY. Not sure how big a problem this is. If the tires only last a couple seasons that fine, but if they can't handle that sort of trip it would be a problem.

Thanks,
Ted