Mike450

An all season winter setup or an all season replacement year round tire?

jerome8283

Year round. Thx

amcmercedes1

Will be interested to hear how you make out with them; please share. My Nokians are on the GL now, though it's 50° here in Southeast PA. Looking forward to see how they get me up my long, steep, winding driveway!

560SEL

I got the nokian R2Suv in 275/50 20. Its a great winter tire as it is better than any other non studded tire in winter conditions. Its a little noisy but not bad. Ideally, unless your in a place where snow falls all winter (I'm in CT and even in a bad winter we don't get snow weekly - unlike parts of canada for example). So, ideally I would prefer high speed snow tires which pirelli makes in the stock size...but they are $320 each vs. $252 for the Nokians.

But I definitely would get snows. Think of it this way: the cost per mile is lower if youre snows cost less than your other tires (i.e $326/ea for Conti UHP) So you're getting a safer gripper tire for less $...

Good luck

DRP

Mike450

Finally get a chance to see what the Blizzaks and the GL can do tomorrow.

18-24" should be a good first test.

560SEL

My 275 nokians are good but they understeer too easily. I ran 255s on the x164. I should have done the same with the x166.
They simply slice through snow better. - my 2 cents

Mike450

24-30" the past two days, and the Blizzak DMV's were priceless.

Wish I was rolling video when I had to go around a stuck F150 4x4.

BMcD-E500

Mike - Glad those are working out for you! Sounds fun!

Bruce

Mike450

Thanks Bruce. It's been three months since I mounted them and this was the first snowfall of the year. They performed beyond what I expected with this truck.

Kenn1926

Anybody interested, dealt with over 20" on Long Island with my ml550 and new set of 275/45-20 Pirelli ice and snows. The traction is almost shocking. I stop on hills just to accelerate up them. Pulled a Chevy heavy duty out of a snow bank with my toe strap, he was appreciative yet extremely humbled. He's added to the list of escalades and others that I've yanked out of problems. They were on Pirelli scorpion winters. Also excellent but the "ice and snows" are even better. Safe travels. Incidentally, the off road package with 11.5" of ground clearance is priceless at times.

cyclrder

Well... You didn't pull me out of any snow banks during this last snow storm..... And I sure didn't mind my 21 inch scorpion winters riding back from the North Fork in the 54 degree sunny day that we had today.....

Kenn1926

Rereading my post I realize that I wasn't clear. What I was trying to say was that I've pulled out numerous cars/trucks on my scorpions winters that were also outstanding for 3 winter seasons. I switched to the "ice and snows" for the extra 1/32 of tread this season.

Kenzan0909

Please I need someone to help me out I drive a Gl450 2008 I just got new central gateway I need to get it program how do I go about it?