I try not to waste too much time thinking about tires. For winter if they're black, round, cheap and have a snow flake on them then they're good enough.
The op works at a tire shop I thought, but I guess you don't get much snow in the Vancouver area. When you do it's a complete $hit show.
Whistler is only 160 km from Langley, just walk if you hit the ditch. It's not that far.
I threw a few sets of similarish 4 season Nexen tires on a couple cars earlier this spring. If they wear out before summer is over next month I'll let you know. We ran some hankook or kuhmo 4 season tires for a year and a half(65,000kms) they wore well and were fine for the last 2 winters.
I haven't used Maxxis car tires but I was happy with the trailer tires I bought. They lasted 10 years of abuse before they started to crack. I replaced them with some cheap china bombs that were almost bald after 2 years.
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