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Best tires for ice
My Rubicon has BF Goodrich Mud Terrain tires but they are stamped for M&S use, being a soft compound. They have huge lugs, no siping and seem a bit squirrelly in heavy rain but are a bear in the snow. As far as ice is concerned, the only thing I am aware of that can save you would be those studs along with soft rubber compound. For what it is worth, I checked the Consumer Reports testing of siped tires and they claim little difference with unsiped.
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In order of best to best for the money (i.e. cheaper but still good) winter tires, IMHO;
Mark nailed numbers 1, 2 & 3,  , there's no beating the Nokias.
NExt would be Gislaved, only a titch behind the Nokias, standard footwear on all Volvo's & Saab's from the factory, and most Euro cars sold into Scandanavia. They kind of know about snow up there.
For a domestic choice, Greg has it already, Michelin X-ice (which is what I have on my AWD Mercedes) good tire for a reasonable price, not even too noisy on dry roads. Incredible stick on packed wet snow or ice, IMHO.
Past that, I have had really good luck with Cooper Discovery tires on my own pickup (with plow) and the pickups in the fleet, excellent tire for the money.
Best of luck.
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The tire dealer that has did all of our farm and car/pickup tires for years sells Miechlen and I think Cooper too, so I'll give him a call. Thanks for all the info. Frank.
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I know some of the midwest states are non studded states. Here in New England, I think they are still legal at least some of the year. Here in VT they are legal from october till april. I run studded tires on all my vehicles for the winter and dedicated summer tires the rest of the year.
For my full size van, I have had really good luck with the cooper truck snow tire (a ten ply tire, no idea of the model number). Even with two wheel drive I do fine with studs in our snowy icy winters. These are relatively inexpensive tires but they performed well and have gone a lot of miles.
I also use a tire I happend across, Power King, somebodies private label tire. Super deep lugs, very aggressive looking. A van I bought had a brand new one inside as the spare, never used and studded. I looked around a little to get a matching tire and have been very happy with them as a traction tire in the rear. They were a little more money than the cooper and are a little load on pavement.
I don't travel in my vans like I used to, so an aggressive load tire is OK as long as it holds the road.
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My choice is easy - I don't have the money to justify having two sets of tires for each vehicle - so I just have what came with it when I purchased the corolla. My tire buying experience is limited to what is on sale at Wal-Mart.
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I'd pretty well decided to get the Coopers but a couple days before I went to see the dealer the Trail Blazer got rear ended by a hit and run driver. We got it back from the body shop yesterday. I did get the plate number but it was a stolen plate on a stolen car, so much for him having insurance.
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My choice is easy - I don't have the money to justify having two sets of tires for each vehicle - so I just have what came with it when I purchased the corolla. My tire buying experience is limited to what is on sale at Wal-Mart.
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Running summer or all season tires in winter isn't an option here. Winter tires are soft and wear more easily especially in the heat of summer. I think I actually make out better financially having two sets. I get better mileage with my summer tires. And I don't buy any more tires having two sets, I just end up having the two sets twice as long.
What did you do to those bolts, anyway, looks like a story.
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My choice is easy - I don't have the money to justify having two sets of tires for each vehicle - so I just have what came with it when I purchased the corolla. My tire buying experience is limited to what is on sale at Wal-Mart.
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Up here that can be more expensive than actually spending the money to buy snows.
The insurance company's have been pressuring the police to lay charges or at least make a 'finding of fault' in cases where the vehicles are NOT equipped with winter tires. If you rear-end someone, or are involved in any sort of single vehicle accident or anything that the police feel was an 'avoidable accident' such as sliding through a stop sign or red light they will at the minimum put it in the report that it was due to the lack of winter tires.
In a lot of cases that is resulting in a denial of insurance coverage for the offending driver.
The Government is also seriously considering making it mandatory that all vehicles (including 4WD's & AWD's) be equipped with winter tires between December 15th & March 15th as has already been done in Quebec.
Best of luck.
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Lets do a survey: How many of you REALLY have two sets of tires for each car AND have them changed out every season.
I have two cars and each only has one set of tires until they are worn out and get replaced. So my inventory = 2 cars and 8 tires (excluding a spare carried on each vehicle - in both cases a pancake tire).
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One car and one truck here, they each have one set of tires.
But given the ice storm we're having this week I'm giving serious consideration to buying a set of studded tires for the truck tomorrow.
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