Winter mode has been...ordered

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein) 01/07/2015 at 12:02 • Filed to: None

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I just ordered some new tires for my Grand Cherokee: 245/70-17 General Grabber AT2s. They're an all-terrain with the mountain/snowflake symbol which means they're rated for severe snow duty. As usual, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! hooked me up.

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Discount Tire will price match online stores, and I found TireBuyer.com is running a couple discounts. Discount Tire is matching that price, so I'm getting the tires for $126.74 each + $64 installation + $32 TPMS rebuild kit + 5.5% sales tax for a total price of $636.12 installed.

Discount Tire also offered to maybe buy my Forteras that I'm junking. They'd give up to $45/each for the Forteras depending on tread depth. Which hey, that's $180 and saves me the trouble of selling the Forteras on craigslist. If they don't offer me the full $45/tire, then it's craigslist time for the Forteras.

Picture of my WK looking a bit salt-crusted and sitting on beefy new tires should be coming in a few days.

HammerheadFistpunch > Textured Soy Protein 01/07/2015 at 12:07

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I hear the Grabber AT/2 is actually a pretty decent tire, durable too. If they are anything like the duratracs for winter traction (also with the mountain snowflake) they will grip like a beast. Bonus points for looking the part.

Textured Soy Protein > HammerheadFistpunch 01/07/2015 at 12:13

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Yeah I'm looking forward to them. All the reviews on their winter traction were very favorable. Supposed to be not quite as civilized on-road as the other well-reviewed-for-winter AT tires I was considering (Firestone Destination AT & Goodyear Wrangler AT Adventure Kevlar) but still reasonably quiet/comfy, supposedly better in winter, and pretty damn cheap.

As for looking the part...I'm totally mall-crawler status but hey I'm cool with that. At least I won't get stuck on my way to the grocery store. (I hate the mall.)

Takuro Spirit > Textured Soy Protein 01/07/2015 at 12:18

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Best tire I ever owned. Wasn't TOO good on snow so I could still have AWD fun in my Subaru, took nails and debris like a CHAMP (never went all the way through a tread lug), and being a 60k rated tire, I put 20k on them and they were still at 9 to 10/32nds.

Mud traction was a let down, but I blame the lightness of the car on that, mostly.

Oh, and very quiet on road as well.

Spacegrass > Textured Soy Protein 01/07/2015 at 12:18

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You will LOVE these tires. I have had them on my 1992 F150 for a little over a year and a little over 40k. The traction is incredible. I live in NH, and I plow for the town (not with my truck), so I'm out in the worst of it just to get to work. By far the most impressive tires I've ever owned.

cnessel27 > Textured Soy Protein 01/07/2015 at 12:21

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I have grabber at2s on my 4x4 Bronco and I had them on my 2wd s-10 and I love them. Wore well even through the summer, never got stuck, and both sets were stud-able.

Textured Soy Protein > Takuro Spirit 01/07/2015 at 12:39

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I'm not too worried about mud because:

1. I don't drive in a lot of mud.

2. If I did drive in mud, I have Quadra-Drive II automatic locking front & rear diffs. (Go to about the 9:20 mark. And yes these guys are kinda dumbasses.)

efme > Textured Soy Protein 01/07/2015 at 13:26

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did you ever consider a highway all-season? my ranger i just picked up has goodyear kevlars that are about done. I'm extremely undecisive and can't decide between HWY and A/T. these goodyears are a/t. I don't want to lose snow capability but the highway all seasons might improve my gas mileage...

bfg rugged terrain

destination le

general at2 (hts for hwy-as)

were a few a/t tires that i was looking at... I figured the highway ones are basically a fancy name for all season tires in truck sizes

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Textured Soy Protein 01/07/2015 at 14:16

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Discount Tire has some good prices! Their discounttiredirect.com is pretty good too since I don't have any of their stores near me. I got $630 for General Altimax Tires, Wheels, Mounted, Balanced, and Shipped.

Textured Soy Protein > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 01/07/2015 at 14:56

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They do indeed. I knew them primarily from Discount Tire Direct until they opened a store near me several years ago.

Funny thing is, sometimes the in-store price doesn't match the Direct price. But I've just gotten in the habit of finding the cheapest possible price online and then having the store price match for me.

They've given me good service over the years, including basic patching of tires for free, and their install prices are cheap too. So I figure as long as they'll give me the same price as whatever I find online, might as well keep going.

Textured Soy Protein > efme 01/07/2015 at 15:27

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My old '99 Grand Cherokee came with Uniroyal Laredo Cross-Country highway all-seasons. They were pretty good in the snow. They never blew me away with surprising amounts of grip, but they were competent enough that I didn't feel like I needed to junk them before they wore out, like the Goodyear Forteras that came on my '05 Grand I bought a month ago.

For my '05 I looked at highway all-seasons for a bit, but I decided on ATs because the Jeep is my winter vehicle, I live in Wisconsin so the weather can get pretty dicey, and it's a Hemi so it's never going to get good mileage.

(I didn't want dedicated snow tires because even though the Jeep is my winter vehicle, I do use it sporadically year-round and driving winter tires in warm temps wears them out prematurely.)

It was between the General Grabber AT2, Goodyear Wrangler AT Adventure Kevlar, and Firestone Destination AT. I chose the Generals for some overly-specific reasons I won't bore you with. But they were also cheapest by far.

Some highway all-seasons that are supposed to have good winter traction include Michelin LTX M/S & LTX M/S2, and Firestone Destination LE 2. The original Destination LE is ok but the LE 2 is apparently a step up.

PWRandSPD > Textured Soy Protein 01/07/2015 at 21:40

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I just put a set of 6 of these on my 2014 Ram 3500 HD Diesel Dually. I don't have a lot of milage on them yet, but they seem to have a lot of grip. The day they were installed there was a few inches of snow and these had no issues where the stock rubber would have had trouble. Granted the stock rubber was close to the wear bars and certainly did not give any confidence even on cold or wet roads. I wanted the Duratracs, but the size and weight rating I needed was on nationwide back order for 3+ months. That being said, not disappointed with the Grabbers.