[PTinVT]

Forgot to chime in on the tires, which is why I originally started to respond...

Ironically, while the rest of the East Coast is buried in snow, we got NONE in Northern Vermont. I too just got Dunlop Wintersport 3Ds on (now carrying the Tischer compact spare in my trunk) and haven't had a chance to test them in snow yet. I had them on my last FWD car and they were great - took it from scary with the all-seasons to about as confident as you could get with FWD. I haven't pushed them on dry roads yet either since it's been hella cold all week, but they ride soooo much nicer than the RFT hockey pucks.

They make a 3D RFT and it was maybe $40/each more expensive than the conventional version on tirerack.com, OP or anyone else, are you running 3D RFTs?