Question regarding tires/snow:

"BrownMiataDieselWagon" (opporamblings) 11/11/2014 at 15:48 • Filed to: None

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If I have a Jeep with 4wd and off-road tires (BFG Mud-Terrain's), do you think I should still invest in some proper snow tires or are they sufficient? I would think that off-road tires would perform better than all-season tires in the snow.

EDIT: Stupid me, forgot about ice. I was only thinking about traction loose snow. I will pick up some snow tires.

Scary__goongala! > BrownMiataDieselWagon 11/11/2014 at 15:53

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Get snow tires if you can swing it. Maybe Im wrong but I feel like I've heard off road tires are no good in the snow.

deekster_caddy > BrownMiataDieselWagon 11/11/2014 at 15:54

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Mud terrains are actually not that great in the snow, an all-season is much better (snow tires best of all of course). The big lugs can chew through loose stuff, but don't have any real way to bite into ice. If you look at a real winter tire, notice how all the lugs are sliced up into small "Sipes" - those are the things that let it grip.

I took my '78 Ramcharger with Mud Terrains on it for a 270 degree spin on the highway one time in the snow... I was going to fast, yes, but it did not hesitate at all to spin around even with countersteering and gas applied... Best part - it was dark out and early in the morning, and I was in the left lane. Spun around towards the guardrail after hitting a drift with the left two wheels, and stopped going around with my headlights pointed into the driver's window of the car I had been passing in the right lane. I'm sure he was terrified... Fortunately we just slid to a stop eventually and no harm done to anyone, no physical contact made with anything.

HammerheadFistpunch > BrownMiataDieselWagon 11/11/2014 at 15:54

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Mud terrains are going to be death on ice, the blocks are chunky and the compound will be hard as a rock in the cold; its like gluing pebbles to a tire for traction.

HammerheadFistpunch > deekster_caddy 11/11/2014 at 15:59

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what he [you] said. all seasons are a better winter tire but of course you know the other name for all season tires "no season tires". Get winter if you want to be safe. Or get a snowflake rated AT tire like the duratrac.

BrownMiataDieselWagon > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2014 at 16:00

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Thanks. I forgot about ice. I was only thinking about the tread depth/traction in loose snow. I'll probably pick up a set of snow tires now.

CAR_IS_MI > BrownMiataDieselWagon 11/11/2014 at 16:01

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Straight mud terrains? get snow tires.

M+S or all terrains, should be okay.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > BrownMiataDieselWagon 11/11/2014 at 16:02

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Check for an "M+S" badge on it. That means it is mud and snow rated. I did fine in the ice with mine.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > BrownMiataDieselWagon 11/11/2014 at 16:53

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A/T tires are a good "in between" that are actually functional in snow