Winter Tires or All Terrains?

[Aciled]

I will have an 94 L400 SWB AT in a few weeks.

I am trying to make a decision about the purchase of winter tires. We have always ran 4 winter tires on our cars and all seasons in the summer.

Geolander seems to be the most popular here on the forum. 31" tires I don't think so...?

Seems a lot of owners run an All Terrain tire year round. We are a young family bouncing around Coquitlam to soccer games community centres etc am thinking of winter tires for the winter and all seasons for the summer?


Thoughts?


Thank you in advance!


EN

[fexlboi]

It all depends on how much money you want to spend, how many times you move your car in real snowy/icey conditions, how much space you have for storage and how concerned you are with your safety. Ideally you want to use winter tires once the temperature is below around 5°C. An all terrain tire can not compete with a proper winter tire and vice versa.

[RichD]

Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac, got them at Fountain Tire on Kingsway.

VERY happy with them. Fully winter rated and excellent on mud.

More road noise than my highway tires and soft compound for winter but somehow they are slow wearing. Yay for technology.

[Aciled]

It all depends on how much money you want to spend, how many times you move your car in real snowy/icey conditions, how much space you have for storage and how concerned you are with your safety. Ideally you want to use winter tires once the temperature is below around 5°C. An all terrain tire can not compete with a proper winter tire and vice versa.

150.00/tire Storage is not an issue. Depends on the winter, if it was like 2 yrs ago well then... Leaning towards winter only.
thanks!

[Jensen]

Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac, got them at Fountain Tire on Kingsway.

VERY happy with them. Fully winter rated and excellent on mud.

More road noise than my highway tires and soft compound for winter but somehow they are slow wearing. Yay for technology.

Hmmm I should check those out, I'm always slow to change back the tires. I've never seen a downside in traction in the summer with winter tires, it's just they're usually so soft they get eaten up really quick. I notice the harder compound all seasons though when I try to drive them in the winter. One skid on black ice and I'm shocked into swapping the winter tires back on!

[Aciled]

I'm considering these.... http://www.1010tires.com/tire.asp?tireb ... ar+A%2FT-S ( Volco Tires)

[FalcoColumbarius]

My Geolanders were excellent performers in winter, 2008/9.

Falco.

[Super Exceeded]

I'm a All Season user myself.

[jessef]

Best :

One set of all seasons for spring to fall
One set of snow/ice for fall to spring

Medium :

One set of heavily sipped all-terrain/season tires all year round

Worst :

One set of all season summer/mud tires all year round

This is if you drive all over south BC.

If you're only in the lower mainland, just a good aggressive allseason like the yokohamas are great.

[Aciled]

Best :

One set of all seasons for spring to fall
One set of snow/ice for fall to spring

Medium :

One set of heavily sipped all-terrain/season tires all year round

Worst :

One set of all season summer/mud tires all year round

This is if you drive all over south BC.

If you're only in the lower mainland, just a good aggressive allseason like the yokohamas are great.

Thanks, !'m for One set of all seasons for spring to fall
One set of snow/ice for fall to spring

[Pajero]

The winter tires I have and love are the Kelly Snowtrakker tire I also had them studded as I used to live in Van but went to PG Often in the winter, and now live in pg and they are great tires for a good price

http://www.kellytires.com/cfmx/web/kell ... or=catalog

The best place to get tires from is from a little shop in surrey called Tom the tire guy they will almost always beat others prices and love fitting tires and finding different sizes for a car, worth giving them a call.

Cheers

Joe

[Aciled]

The winter tires I have and love are the Kelly Snowtrakker tire I also had them studded as I used to live in Van but went to PG Often in the winter, and now live in pg and they are great tires for a good price

http://www.kellytires.com/cfmx/web/kell ... or=catalog

The best place to get tires from is from a little shop in surrey called Tom the tire guy they will almost always beat others prices and love fitting tires and finding different sizes for a car, worth giving them a call.

Cheers

Joe

Thanks,
Woah I'm feeling my age, thanks for the wake up!
I used Tom for all of my lowered VWs....