Post your winter rubber!

[ronbo]

215/70/16 Firestone Winterforce a highly rated winter snow tire on tirerack and online in general. Good/Great in snow BUT tire compound not made for ice. That said I'm happy with the tire for the last 3 years. Quiet and good/great traction on dry, wet and snow.

Wanted the General Altima Artics snow/ice tire but the online tire place I deal with didn't delivery on a timely bases or communicated with me. So I dumped them.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Originally Posted By: ronbo
215/70/16 Firestone Winterforce a highly rated winter snow tire on tirerack and online in general. Good/Great in snow BUT tire compound not made for ice. That said I'm happy with the tire for the last 3 years. Quiet and good/great traction on dry, wet and snow.

Wanted the General Altima Artics snow/ice tire but the online tire place I deal with didn't delivery on a timely bases or communicated with me. So I dumped them.



I got my Winterforces studded. Seems to help.

Friday night we got a bit of snow (not much, but there was NO PLOWING PERIOD) and a lot of people were having problems.

I was able to prove the point of FWD + Snow tires > 4WD truck. There was a truck stuck on the hill where I live and the drive was smoking the tires ... couldn't get up the hill.

My Focus with snow tires was able to walk right past the truck. Stop on the hill and start out and turn uphill into a parking spot.

 

[rcy]

Michelin Xice xi2 on the 2000 Maxima.

Gislaved NordFrost 5 on the 2006 MDX.

Hard to do a direct comparison as the MDX is AWD, but I think the Nordfrost 5 are better than the xi2. Quieter for sure. The Xice is up to the xi3 generation now.

 

[TiredTrucker]

Michelin XDN2 Wide Based 22.5". 18" wide track per tire. $1100 per tire. Will go thru most anything. Especially with full electric lockers in both drive axles.

Oh. That is for the Semi truck. never mind.

 

[FCobra94]

225/50/17 Michelin X-Ice Xi-2. Got a smokin deal on them via Craigslist/eBay and they've been great so far since it's been cold out; just haven't gotten any snow yet to really test them out lol

 

[SLCraig]

Originally Posted By: rcy
Michelin Xice xi2 on the 2000 Maxima.

Gislaved NordFrost 5 on the 2006 MDX.

Hard to do a direct comparison as the MDX is AWD, but I think the Nordfrost 5 are better than the xi2. Quieter for sure. The Xice is up to the xi3 generation now.


No surprise they are better, Norfrost and Altimax Arctic (rebadged Nordfrost) were the best tires I have ever personally owned. Only other set that I rode on that were incredible were Nokian Hakkapelitta. XIce and Blizzak have nothing on winter tires designed in Scandinavia, but that's just my .02.

 

[OVERKILL]

So, our parking lot at work is a sheet of ice. One of the women I work with has an Envoy on some cr*p-tacular firestones. She slid off into a snow bank trying to exit the parking lot and couldn't get out of it in 4x4, one of the other guys ended up having to get it out..... Yet I had zero issues on the same surface with the Blizzaks. I'm very happy with these tires! traction on ice is EXCELLENT!

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Not sure why the RF looks balding on the outside .... it's not.

 

[ABCarr]

Bridgestone Blizzak WS60 and WS70 on my 2003 Lincoln Town Car.

 

[Kira]

Hello, Viking SnowTech (Norway) in 215 55 16 steels on a 2002 Volvo V70 which wears 195 65 15 stock size alloys the rest of the year. A bit of squeeky rubbing on tight turns. Kira

 

[Quattro Pete]

Kira, so what was the reasoning behind installing wider tires for winter?

 

[HTSS_TR]

It's very usual to have wider wheel and tires for winter. It should be the other way around, 195/65-15 for winter and 215/55-16 for summer.

 

[Kira]

Hello, It wasn't by design. A bloke in a nearby town had 4 mounted snows which fit my car. $200 for rubber in really great condition on Volvo wheels with Volvo wheel covers. I understand the practicality of a narrower snow tire but we don't get deep snow that often any more. They've worked real well. Kira