Studded Snow Tires/Off Road
11-08-2017, 03:48 PM
#11
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A studded Nokian will be as good or better than any other road-going tire for icy roads in town, or for climbing icy hills.
30-40 degrees would be a black-diamond ski slope (and potentially an avalanche path), maybe you mean a 30% slope? That's still a damned steep road, especially for a quarter of a mile. Lincoln Gap is one of the steepest paved roads in Vermont, if not the steepest, and it maxes out at 24% with an average of 7.2% over 6 miles. They still don't bother keeping it open in wintertime. If I had to do that in anything more than a couple of inches of snow, I'd be thinking about chains, probably on a tall, skinny tire.
I've been super-happy with Haks on past vehicles; I had them on my Suburban and the only time I managed to get that stuck was a result of not realizing there was a deep ditch on the roadside when I pulled over to let an emergency vehicle by.
30-40 degrees would be a black-diamond ski slope (and potentially an avalanche path), maybe you mean a 30% slope? That's still a damned steep road, especially for a quarter of a mile. Lincoln Gap is one of the steepest paved roads in Vermont, if not the steepest, and it maxes out at 24% with an average of 7.2% over 6 miles. They still don't bother keeping it open in wintertime. If I had to do that in anything more than a couple of inches of snow, I'd be thinking about chains, probably on a tall, skinny tire.
I've been super-happy with Haks on past vehicles; I had them on my Suburban and the only time I managed to get that stuck was a result of not realizing there was a deep ditch on the roadside when I pulled over to let an emergency vehicle by.
11-08-2017, 06:08 PM
#12
I have duratracs on both my truck and my jeep here in Utah and both have been great in the winter. My jeep had Blizzak DM-V2's before the duratracs and, while they were better on the hardpacked/icy stuff, they were not vastly better. In the deep stuff, the duratracs are fantastic and at least as good.
All in all, I did not wanna do the whole two sets of tires/wheels thing and I dont regret it. The duratracs perform great and I've never felt like they put me in a bad situation or that I could stop or turn if i needed too.
A lot of the commercial plow trucks(250's and 350's) in MA(where I used to live) and here in UT run duratracs if that says anything.
All in all, I did not wanna do the whole two sets of tires/wheels thing and I dont regret it. The duratracs perform great and I've never felt like they put me in a bad situation or that I could stop or turn if i needed too.
A lot of the commercial plow trucks(250's and 350's) in MA(where I used to live) and here in UT run duratracs if that says anything.
Last edited by mass-hole; 11-08-2017 at 06:10 PM.
