Comparison Test: Best All-Terrain A/T Tires For Winter, Snow & Ice

[Phimosis]

Totally inadequate testing. Anybody who lives in snow and ice regularly would know that you buy 1-peak tires for winter, not offroad tires. Offroad tires have harder rubber that is worse at cornering and stopping that real winter tires, and the larger lug spacing means that they are not even as good as the factory 3-season tires for normal traction. Where are the results for real winter tires, like X-ice and Blizzaks?

Where I live, no one runs dedicated snow tires because there is no upside here. Only down sides like poor mud performance, poor sand performance, poor onroad handling, and excessive tire wear.

But a lot of us do run 3PMSF all terrain tires because we do occasionally head up to the mountains for snow skiing or other snow sports. We need a tire that works decent in snow as well as well as performing decent at all the other on road and off-road tasks for the other 340 days per year.

And in North America, there’s around 60 million people that live in the “dedicated winter tire” zone vs 550 million that live in the “all season” zone.
So it makes total sense why he would make a 3PMSF A/T video about how well these tires performs on snow and ice.

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[710-oil-614]

Where I live, no one runs dedicated snow tires because there is no upside here. Only down sides like poor mud performance, poor sand performance, poor onroad handling, and excessive tire wear.

But a lot of us do run 3PMSF all terrain tires because we do occasionally head up to the mountains for snow skiing or other snow sports. We need a tire that works decent in snow as well as well as performing decent at all the other on road and off-road tasks for the other 340 days per year.

And in North America, there’s around 60 million people that live in the “dedicated winter tire” zone vs 550 million that live in the “all season” zone.
So it makes total sense why he would make a 3PMSF A/T video about how well these tires performs on snow and ice.

I agree but make no mistake a dedicated snow tire, especially a studded tire, makes all the difference in areas that need them.

Source: 4,700 ft up with 12% grade washboard gravel roads where we see at least 55" of snow a year.

 

[Phimosis]

I agree but make no mistake a dedicated snow tire, especially a studded tire, makes all the difference in areas that need them.

Source: 4,700 ft up with 12% grade washboard gravel roads where we see at least 55" of snow a year.

Agreed as well. I lived in Washington for 15 years, where it’s legal to have studded tires. I had a 2wd Ranger. It was helpless on snow. Then I got studded tires and 500 lbs of sand bags for the bed and it would climb 20% grades on snow and ice.

 

[Bob The Builder]

Falken Wildpeak AT3 has served me very well up here where we currently, as I speak, is under a Winter Snow Warning with over a foot of fresh snow on its way. Yes, we get real winter up here, not the weather where it all goes away in two days.

If I still drove 25K a year it would be Blizzaks. I now drive 3.5K a year so no need to deal with the hassle of twice yearly seasonal tire change overs which now cost $100.00+ each time at the mercy of having your expensive alloy wheels beat up.

 

[Deleted member 45110]

I hear ya Glen the snow mobile thing.
1976 I think it was. A Honda CVCC
Ittty bitty FWD snowmobile Civic.
Let that rear end hang out somewhere behind you, mattered little as long as you kept the gas flowing.

The thing I remember most it was a fast little go cart and with a carburetor it got 45 mpg around town with my lead foot and 54 at 75 mph on the Super Slab.
But when a tractor trailer rig passed me the suck was scary.
We used to use curb/driveway ramps and ride around the neighborhood on two wheels.
Um two wheels on the same side of the car.
Handled pretty much like any bicycle.
Yeah for real. We had good weed back then.
:’P

Mine was this same yellow.

All weekend, ALL over town, bar hopping, errands, beach runs, Liquor store runs, $5 in gas.

I put a killer stereo in it, all Radio Shack gear.
High tech stuff of the day.

Eight inch woofers, piezoelectric tweeters, five inch mid rangers. We made our own crossover circuits, cost was about $3 each plus a half hour of bench time, some soldering, it was easy peasy to set your crossover right where the speakers needed them. Shall I say, tuned for Rock & Roll.
A 100 watts of power at no more than 2.0% THD. We were pushing overload, 10 band EQ under the dash next to the cassette player.
I thought, Yeah we bad.

My mom had her white datsun b210 painted that color yellow....just sayin'

 

[Kilonen]

I can tell you what is total garbage in any wet weather, let alone ice or snow and that are the Goodyear Territory HT that come with the 25 Lariat - they are junk.

I only have 10,500 miles on mine and I am about to bite the $1,200 bullet to get a set of BFG Trail-Terrain TAs put on.

Have a 25 Lariat 2.0T. Live in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan- very rural. My driveway has a 14 deg grade. Was expecting to need to get winter tires when I bought it but the Goodyear Territory HT tires surprised me - seemed fine. I did find Snow mode helped noticeably. 2nd winter is arriving - will keep your post in mind.

 

[710-oil-614]

Have a 25 Lariat 2.0T. Live in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan- very rural. My driveway has a 14 deg grade. Was expecting to need to get winter tires when I bought it but the Goodyear Territory HT tires surprised me - seemed fine. I did find Snow mode helped noticeably. 2nd winter is arriving - will keep your post in mind.

I slide around with the Territory HT on just wet pavement. I also skid down a 12% graded gravel road in dry weather. They are not great imo but everyone has a different experience.

I'm having Wildpeak AT Trails put on Friday. Mounted, balanced, and an alignment for $1,100. Felt too good to pass up.

 

[Kilonen]

I slide around with the Territory HT on just wet pavement. I also skid down a 12% graded gravel road in dry weather. They are not great imo but everyone has a different experience.

I'm having Wildpeak AT Trails put on Friday. Mounted, balanced, and an alignment for $1,100. Felt too good to pass up.

One of our drives is paved - one is gravel. Now that you say that the gravel is where I found snow mode to help a lot.

 

[SpaceCowboy]

I run 2 sets of wheels and tires on my mav. If you can get a set of factory wheels for cheap the 3 peak tires are tough to beat in the winter and a dedicated summer set is fantastic.

My 2wd Maverick hybrid with snow tires in bad weather has never let me down.

 

[Jeb_Bush_enjoyer]

He tested probably the worst bfg tire when it comes to winter performance I’ve had trail terrains on my last 2 vehicles and they are the closest you will get to a dedicated winter tire without getting a dedicated winter tire the ko2 and 3 on the other hand are god awful in the winter

 

[DanTMA]

I can tell you what is total garbage in any wet weather, let alone ice or snow and that are the Goodyear Territory HT that come with the 25 Lariat - they are junk.

I only have 10,500 miles on mine and I am about to bite the $1,200 bullet to get a set of BFG Trail-Terrain TAs put on.

Yeah my 24 came with Falken Continental Garbage! They don't handle rain I doubt they will handle snow! But Ford says they are all I need for wintering Wisconsin so when they are not all I need insurance can buy me a new 26 Maverick!! Lmfao

 

[JohnCondren1933]

I learned to drive on a 2WD Ford Ranger stick shift.
You wanna talk about tail-wagging happy on downhill in the snow?

At least I learned the stick shift in summer, 1st time downhill on a snowy road, stepped all the way on the clutch to shift & that rear end started fishtailing like it want to give me a kiss in front, about crapped my pants but somehow did a controlled step off the clutch and got the nose back in front of tail.

Bottom of the hill I just sat & thanked God for keeping me alive.

2wd stick shift Ford Ranger downhill in the snow with nothing in back, you either rev-match & slip-shift or come face to face with God...or the rear of your Ranger I dont remember which came first.

AT tires certainly didnt help.

But after that it made every other FWD vehicle in snow feel like youre in a tricked out Rubicon, remember the 1st FWD sedan a Geo Metro I took a curve on rain a bit fast and started feeling the rear wheels break traction, start to slide....but comparatively slooowww motion off throttle a bit & like it never happened.

I’ve driven ice and snow on bias ply non radial street tires long before traction control and all wheel drive, no front wheel drive back then either,
We did just fine,
But we were men with real driving skills back then. Some of the She beasts were better than the average male driver, lower insurance rates for the girls show that.
:’P

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