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Mud terrain are quite possibly the worst tire to use in winter. They lack siping, and typically have contact lugs with large surface area as well these tires are tyou call wider than oem because of user preference. These slip right over the wet and icy surface. A winter tire has a soft compound that is designed to mold to the contact surface and bite to whatever it can. Typically the narrower the better to eliminate total contact surface area. Mud terrain tires are designed to bite and dig down to grab on to whatever solids it can grab while the large surface lug will heat up when spinning the tire and dry a wet surface when wheeling.
I've been running mud tires year round for the last several years and haven't had any issues in snow. My Trail Grapplers are real good in snow. However, ice is different. No MT or AT is good on ice except maybe Duratracs that are studded? I run non studded Duratracs on my other rig and they are great in the snow. Probably not so good on ice. I only live 2 miles from work so I can get there no problem. If it's too icey I won't go anywhere beside to and from work.
Mud terrain are quite possibly the worst tire to use in winter. They lack siping, and typically have contact lugs with large surface area as well these tires are tyou call wider than oem because of user preference. These slip right over the wet and icy surface. A winter tire has a soft compound that is designed to mold to the contact surface and bite to whatever it can. Typically the narrower the better to eliminate total contact surface area. Mud terrain tires are designed to bite and dig down to grab on to whatever solids it can grab while the large surface lug will heat up when spinning the tire and dry a wet surface when wheeling.
Note, the mud terrain will work just fine on hard pack snow surfaces where the tire can bite down. But this would be limited to rare instances where the snow plow never touched a road for weeks. Or if you're wheeling gravel roads and others have been to pack it down.
ive driven in many NY snow storms and alot of of ice out here and never had a problem. but i see what you saying.
where i lived at in NY the snow plow always plowed my road last and it was a 10 percent grade and i would have to pick up my mom and i would just put it in 4lo and climb the hill.
I'm going to give these a try the SRA sucked and we had a couple inches of snow and I decide to get new and sell my used ones that had 30,000 miles. Forgot to mentioned I got Firestone employee discount $542 including tax and install. Firestone Destination AT!
Last edited by burt.trans; 12-07-2015 at 12:12 AM.
I ran the the Destination AT year round on my last truck, very good AT tire in the winter. Doesn't have as much siping as a winter tire so give yourself more time to stop. Other than that I never had much issue with traction. I considered going with them again but I wanted a more aggressive AT tire for the looks, so I decided to go with a dedicated winter tire and I'm still undecided for an AT tire in the spring. What size did you get?
I ran the the Destination AT year round on my last truck, very good AT tire in the winter. Doesn't have as much siping as a winter tire so give yourself more time to stop. Other than that I never had much issue with traction. I considered going with them again but I wanted a more aggressive AT tire for the looks, so I decided to go with a dedicated winter tire and I'm still undecided for an AT tire in the spring. What size did you get?
I went with stock size 275 65 18 I wanted to get 275 70 18 but they don't make the Firestone Destination AT in that size. I had BFG KO2 in 275 70 18 on order but they were backed ordered and so I just went with the Firestones.
12-06-2015, 09:44 AM
