What high traction refers to on a tire? Is it a winter tire or something different? Reason I ask is I was taking an old fridge out to the curb for the local big things collection. Where I put the fridge there was a stack of tires. Right on the top there was tires that fit my rims listed as high traction. Barley even used in appearance. There were 5 tires in all so I snagged them in the event I can use them. Needless to say I was surprised by this. Anyways if they are a winter tire I will switch them to the car that doesn't have snows on right now. Otherwise I suppose I will keep them till I need to throw some new ones on. Only thing I can think is someone bought a car and these came with it. They then bought new rims and put snows on the stock rims. Now they don't need them so they put them to the curb.