Best AT tires for everyday use and snow?

[Travis8352]

both of those are very soft, studless, lots of flexible sipes. good or great on pure ice but not nearly "all weather/terrain" for me as a winter tire should be up here in the great white north. conditions can be so changing you can go from freezing rain to snow caked on top of a 1/4 inch of ice back to pure black ice in a matter of minutes. i dont have time to chuck around with substandard winter tires. for me its nokian tires or stay home.

im pretty sure that where you live you have great white north conditions so you will be able to appreciate the value of having good winter tires!

Ohh yes great white north here for sure! Im leaning towards the nokian lt3 for my next tire. I love the toyo wlt1s i have now but always interested to find something better yet. I used to think the cooper m+s were good but after using these toyos i no longer think they were ever that good.

 

[HEMIMANN]

You going to swap tires seasonly? Soft winter rubber compounds wear quickly on hard summer roads.

 

[Dean2]

You going to swap tires seasonly? Soft winter rubber compounds wear quickly on hard summer roads.

I run Duratracs exactly because I don't want to swap tires. I run all seasons on my awd car year round too. However, on my wife's GC, I do swap summers for winters. The dedicated winter tires are a lot better in the cold on ice and snow. Her vehicle is a daily driver that never goes off pavement but I want to make sure it is as safe as possible for her.

 

[JJEH]

While it seems that the Nitto Ridge Grappler is either hated or loved, I can truly say that it was the best truck tire we ever had.
This one was a factory sized LT275/60-20.


It lasted 4yrs and ~73K miles and took us over asphalt and dirt roads, through mud and snow. We also did some trailer work, and it performed 100% all the time.





Even though I am disappointed in Nitto customer care, that tire I will recommend!!

And I will be truly satisfied if my new tires, BFG KO2, perform just as good.

 

[Jeepwalker]

Generally speaking the features that make a winter tire 'good' are: Smaller-ish tread blocks, certain amt of space between the tread blocks (but not too large of space, or too tight). Lot of sipes, softer compound. So keep those in mind when shopping for a winter tire.

You also have to pay attention, some mfgrs connect tread blocks with raised rubber between the tread blocks, and sipes which don't go down very far ....in such a way that when the tire is 1/2 worn (still 50% left), the sipes and tread blocks kind of 'merge' and disappear. And you lose a lot of the features which made the tire good in the first place (with 50% tread life still remaining!!). Then suddenly they aren't very good in the snow. But they'll be good in the summer.

 

[Dean2]

Excellent advice. That half wore out, lousy winter traction problem is what is wrong with Goodyear. Blizzaks only have the walnut shell grip aid in the first 3 or 4 32nds and is why their winter traction goes away so quick.

 

[ccsrt8]

I run Duratracs exactly because I don't want to swap tires. I run all seasons on my awd car year round too. However, on my wife's GC, I do swap summers for winters. The dedicated winter tires are a lot better in the cold on ice and snow. Her vehicle is a daily driver that never goes off pavement but I want to make sure it is as safe as possible for her.

I run Nokian Remedy WRG5 "all weather tires". They have performed flawlessly on that vehicle and i would recommend them for someone who doesn't was to swap wheels/tires very year.

 

[Dean2]

I run Nokian Remedy WRG5 "all weather tires". They have performed flawlessly on that vehicle and i would recommend them for someone who doesn't was to swap wheels/tires very year.

Agree. I ran WRG3, 4 AND 5 series on a Lexus GS430 V8 sports car. Because they are fairly soft rubber they are excellent for really sporty driving and also excellent winter tire for ice and light snow. They did not do well in deep snow and the car never went anywhere muddy but they would have been poor in mud too. Their one drawback is they only last about 40,000 miles, but while they have tread, they have outstanding traction 12 months a year. Nokian makes excellent tires and those wWRG will be the next tire on my AWD LS460 when the tires that came on it wear out because I run the same tire year round on it.