Performance all weather tires?

[snowkarver]

I'm a fan of Nokian Snow Tires, I ran Hakkas before I moved to a warmer climate. The WR has been plagued with problems with dry rotting and cracking. Not sure what happened up there in Finland but they dropped the ball with the WR. This is pretty widespread so if you never had problems consider yourself lucky.

I will say that longevity is not a strong suit of this design. I blame Nokian marketing, but a lot of people run the WR like a hot weather all-season that works well in winter, when in reality it’s a great winter tire that does okay in summer.

For me up here, winter traction is my #1 priority over summer performance or tread life, and winter conditions is when I do most of my driving, and what the tire mostly sees. I also replace them every 4 years. So I guess the caveat is that long hot summers are not kind to the WRs.

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[22RolloverClub]

If you switch sides the direction of the tire would be wrong. I think, lol

Maybe my wording was wrong. I just switch the fronts to the back.

 

[es7129]

How do you like the APTs on the Maverick? Tried them in the cold/winter conditions? I’m looking forward to the Wildpeaks when my Tremor arrives, but will probably go back to Nokian with the Outpost A/T when they kick the bucket.

Also, although I too would rather have the Outposts if my priority was dirt, the WRs are fairly decent when the going gets a bit rough. Ask me how I know (it’s why I’m getting a Tremor)

Love them, they’re great AT-lite tires and they do very well on dirt roads, in the rain and offer plenty of traction for a 2.13 60’ . The week before I mounted them last year we had a 20” blizzard and since then we haven’t gotten more than 4” of snow combined between the two winters.
Now that I have AWD I’ll likely be replacing Outposts One. I’ve previously ran WRG3 on a Magnum RT, WRG4 on a Jetta Sportwagen TDI and Entyre 2.0 on my wife’s Outlander Sport so for our area I believe the Ones will be perfect. The Outposts were originally purchased for when I had my hybrid.

 

[Deleted member 17675]

If you are serious about winter performance above all else in an all-weather tire, I have run three generations of Nokian WR SUV tires for over a decade - WRG2, WRG3, and just installed WRG4s on my daily Volvos. The WR line was the first all-weather to ever receive the 3PSF.

Snowy passes in the Cascades, a foot of slush in town, dirt roads, muddy springtime Forest Service roads, never had a problem. They run like performance A/S tires in the summer, with slightly less tread life. I will probably never put anything else ever on a CUV or SUV.

The WRs are more aggressively siped than the CCs or any of the other stock Mav tires except the Wildpeak. For even more traction, they also just released the Outpost APT and A/T, which use the same compound, but built specifically for heavier SUVs and light trucks. But they are not as refined on the highway in summer, of course.

Nokian makes hands-down the best snow and ice tires on the planet - the design and compounds of the WR and Outpost are based on their Hakka winter tread.

Being a driving enthusiast in Canada, I have years of experience with snow, ice, and winter performance tires from Bridgestone, Dunlop, Pirelli, Conti, and Michelin - I don’t bother anymore with the WRs.

Nokians all the way yep agree

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