Snow Tires????? HELP...

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Charlieb60

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OK...I am looking to purchase some dedicated Snow Tires.

Here is my driving scenario:

Live up a steep hill that is not state maintained. We have a guy that pushes in his 4wheeler and a plow guy that comes pretty often.

I usually creep down in 4 Low and I'm ok. I then come back up in 4 Low pushing around 3500 RPM.

The snow is usually packed but there is typically ice involved.

THAT BEING SAID...

What should be my best dedicated snow tire option under $400 for everything?

Here are the recommendations I have so far:

Cooper Weather Master $360
Kelly Snowtrakker $360

Cooper Discovery M+S? = $440


Any recommendations? This truck will be my daily driver in the winter time (for the most part) and only a weekend vehicle in the summer. I am going to keep the all terrains I have on it now with a second set of wheels.

Thanks All.

Charlieb60
 
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I got a set of General Grabber AT2 from Mr tire a few weeks ago and they do great in the snow, even have holes in the treads for winter studs. But they were almost double what your looking to pay.

Ever consider chains for the climb back up?
 
My current tires are as good as glazed donuts, but...
I have done some serious snow driving with 31" BFG All Terrains. Their Mud Terrain tires are awesome too, but loud on the road.
I drove up and down a mountain in 24 inches of snow all night with AT's, it was awesome.
But... they are like $125 each mounted.
 
If you want dedicated snow tires (guessing stock size) then look at the Bridgestone Blizzaks or Michelin X-Ice. Both are around 120 a tire, but they are worth their weight in gold in the nasty. I've run both BFG all terrains and mud terrains on my trucks in snow and ice storms. They do alright accelerating (in 4wd), but suffer everywhere else. When I didn't have the luxury of owning both a car and truck I had to suck in up and buy a set of snow/ice tires. My Trans Am was doing better then i could have ever hoped with the X-Ice's on. Not to take away from ChoochCharlie, the BFG All Terrain is a great all around tire. There are just much better options if you are actually wanting a dedicated tire.

Be warned if you do by dedicated snow tires they...lack on dry pavement.
 
I would agree that an actual dedicated snow tire would perform better than a snow rated AT like the BFGs or Generals but since I will still be doing off road in winter I grabbed General AT2s and threw studs on them.
 
BFG AT's (or the less expensive Mud King equivalent) are probably the best all around tire out there.
 
Charlieb60 said:
OK...I am looking to purchase some dedicated Snow Tires.

Here is my driving scenario:

Live up a steep hill that is not state maintained. We have a guy that pushes in his 4wheeler and a plow guy that comes pretty often.

I usually creep down in 4 Low and I'm ok. I then come back up in 4 Low pushing around 3500 RPM.

The snow is usually packed but there is typically ice involved.

THAT BEING SAID...

What should be my best dedicated snow tire option under $400 for everything?

Here are the recommendations I have so far:

Cooper Weather Master $360
Kelly Snowtrakker $360

Cooper Discovery M+S? = $440


Any recommendations? This truck will be my daily driver in the winter time (for the most part) and only a weekend vehicle in the summer. I am going to keep the all terrains I have on it now with a second set of wheels.

Thanks All.

Charlieb60
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dude, my bfg km2 33x10.5 r15 were 600 on tirerack.com and i do not regret it at all. best tire i have ever had. i do all kinds of mudding and offroading in the snow and have NEVER had to use 4lo. i live in baltimore md and last year when we had thoes two blizzards in a row it was some like 38in of snow and all the roads were closed.....but not to me lol i was out crusing having a blast and did not have any trouble going up steep hills. so i would say spend a little more and get km2
 
Anyone know about this one?

Snowtrakker...

I can get a set of 4 put on for $360 out the door...

Not a lot of reviews out there from what I can see.

Thanks
 

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Snow Tires????? HELP

I got these this year,pretty impressed so far:

Goodyear Wrangler Authority. 31-10.5 -15

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Dan
 
If I had to do it again I would've gotten some GY Wrangler Territories as they look like they would self clean a bit better than my Generals.
 
My landlord had some 235/75/15 studded snows here in his garage that had been sitting for a while. They were an off brand, Wintertrax Widetrack??, but I had a my mechanic look at them and he said they were like brand new, maybe only 100 miles on them.

So for $50 mounted and balanced I went with these.

Saves me money and they worked awesome on my hill/driveway yesterday in blizzard conditions.

The savings will go towards any other mechanical issues that will arise.

Thanks for everyone's recommendations. I will keep those in mind for next year when the snow hits again...hopefully these tires will last another winter, then I can spend some good money on great winter tires and have awesome mud tires for summer too.

Also trying to save for a great soft top that will last me for a long time.
 
another option that you could use year round is the duratrac by good year. it has provisions for studs already and is decent in snow

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I've used BFG AT and had General AT2's. The generals performed better than the BFG in NY snow conditions but now I run The Mastercraft(made by Cooper Tire Corp.) they hum a little more than BFG but they're much better than the others. I don't know if they will last as long 56,000 miles on BFG. Only have 10k on them, time will tell.
 
I've been running 31X10.5 Firestone Destination M/T for the last few years. Actually on my second set and will get a third when it's time. I actually run them all year long. They are setup to accept studs, but I have never studded them (hence the all year usage). I can say I have never needed to or wished i had. I used to run them on a 99 Taco, and had never had the rear end break free. Happened quite often before that with the BFGoodrich AT that I ran.

The driveway at my apt is about 50 feet long and where I park is a good 15-20 ft below the road so the driveway is pretty steep. I can honestly say I've never been stuck or shoveled. (I'm a renter, why would I shovel?) After a storm with snow half way up the grill, I'm able to throw it in low and crawl out no problem every time. The neighbors aren't a fan of the method, but maybe they should have gone with something other than RWD. Running these are surprisingly quiet for a MT tire. The price is a bit above what you were thinking, but I can promise they are worth it.

Firestone Destination M/T
 
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