Blizzacks are a great upgrade!!! took the joke tires off and ready to sell them (Hankooks)....gonna replace them in the spring with real tires. May add some weight in the back not sure. Hate winter!!!

 

I keep going back and forth. I only have 5K miles on my tires it came with and am definitely changing for next winter, but was trying to hold off this winter. Now I think i'm being silly spending so much on the truck and not protecting it with good tires for winter driving. Been doing Blizzaks for years on all other vehicles, but with new truck, rust proofing, linex, new cap, I wasn't planning on another 1500 bucks for tires and rims. Seems silly to be scoffing at 1500 bucks at this point, but I haven't worked up the motivation to convince my wife it needs them. She's of the, it has 4x4, it doesn't need them line of thinking.

 

I've said it before - if I lived in snow country, I'd probably get a set of Blizzaks on separate wheels for winter driving, and keep the stock tires/wheels for summer driving. I have the Hankooks also and they seem to be very good on dry and wet roads. I haven't really experienced off-road use, but I would think that they'd be as competent as any other moderately-aggressive p-rated tire. I'm just not ready to take my shiny new truck on any aggressive off-road ventures yet.

 

Nitto Ridge Grapplers are AWESOME!!! Minimal road noise while still having an aggressive look. And they absolutely destroy snow! I couldn't be happier with the way this truck handles in the snow. 35" Grapplers and a 4.5" lift with Bilstein shocks.

 

The truck is useless in the snow if you can't get in it because the doors are frozen shut!

 

Running a set of winter rims/tires. Rims are 17" stock rims from a 2005 F150, tires are 265/70R17 Cooper Studded Winter Tires. Truck is solid on the road, and I rarely need 4x4. I turn on 4HI when the snow gets deep or when trying to climb steep grades that have snow/ice on the road (no salt in Alaska).

 

Wrong thread ...... this is about tire performance...

try this one https://www.f150forum.com/f118/2015-...status-402319/

 

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Well....dealing with Bomb Cyclone in Montgomery County, PA. Icy snowy conditions, but roads were treated.

I traded in my 2013 Jeep Unlimited 2 weeks ago for 2017 XLT Screw 3.5 EB..and regret it today. 2017 XLT Screw in 4H was all over the road! Almost as if it didn't have ABS or traction control. It has factory Goodyrar Wrangler tires with 13,000 miles on them.

Today I was actually diving to get 6 or 7 60lb tube bags of sand for rear end based on some posts on here. I turned arounder and came back home....after fishtailing and missing telephone pole by a few feet.

The Jeep Unlimited had Dueler Revos (with over 40,000 miles on them!) and was 10 times better in this.

Really shocked and disappointed...

 

Which GY Wranglers?