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[Meds]

Any suggestions for a good tire that can be left on year round?

Half-ton pickup, only gets driven around town in the winter.

Been running Falken Wild Peaks since I bought them in 2017. Stopped switching to my studded winters in 2021 when the winters were 10 years old…..now the Falken’s are needing replacement.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Any suggestions for a good tire that can be left on year round?

Half-ton pickup, only gets driven around town in the winter.

Been running Falken Wild Peaks since I bought them in 2017. Stopped switching to my studded winters in 2021 when the winters were 10 years old…..now the Falken’s are needing replacement.

I highly recommend Sumatomo winter tires. I run them year round fuck it. They've been on for 3 years so far and I'll probably get another one before I replace them

[Carl Yagro]

TFT... These Falken Tires, eh?

[JelloPuddingPop]

Most people up here, including myself either run KO2s, or Duratracs all year.

[Topper]

I ran KO2's for years, was never very happy with them, when Duratracs came out I switched, ran those for 14+ years getting them siped when I bought them.

Last year I realized I hadn't been out in lug nut deep sloppy mud that the Duratracs shine in and switched to Michelin Defender LTX MS (the MS2 wasn't available in the size I wanted).

Get past the old man look and realize how fantastic they are. Highway, city, FSR, drill trail, snow or ice. Also the first time I've heard my engine over the tire whine.



The old siped Duratrac pizza cutters

[Meds]

TFT... These Falken Tires, eh?

Nice.

[5thhorseman]

Tundras come with Michelin LTX Trails, which new owners dump on FB Marketplace as soon as they get their new wheels. I picked up a set 30% worn on TRD rims for $650. You can typically get a set brand new on TRD rims for $1K. They're quiet, great for fuel economy, but wear fast. Still a great deal though.

Not sure if this kind of thing happens with other brands but if so it can be relatively inexpensive to run summers and winters.

[Per]

Any suggestions for a good tire that can be left on year round?

There is no such thing.

Winter tyres get too soft in the summer, summer tyres get too hard in the winter and pose a real danger tyo your life.
In continental Europe they have some stupid All Season tyres, but they are pretty useless when it gets twenty below and you're driving on an icy road.

Being from northern Sweden I always use studded tyres in the winter, because that is the only thing that works on ice (unstudded tyres, even good ones, have nearly twice the braking distance on ice). And those are illegal to use in the summer.

The unstudded winter tyres are great in snow and sleet and i guess the all season ones can work on the continent where you only see snow or ice once in a blue moon, but they are not meant for Arctic conditions. Where I live you definitely need different tyres for different seasons.

[Meds]

If I lived in northern Sweden where it gets 20 below I wouldn’t be asking this question.

I live in northern coastal BC. A cold day in winter is minus-10. Usually we hover around zero from the beginning of December until the end of February. We get snow, slush, and ice. I use 4-wheel drive when required and don’t do any highway driving in my truck.

Our van has two sets of tires though because it’s the long distance vehicle. It’s AWD and runs Michelin X-Ice.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Any suggestions for a good tire that can be left on year round?

There is no such thing.

Winter tyres get too soft in the summer, summer tyres get too hard in the winter and pose a real danger tyo your life.
In continental Europe they have some stupid All Season tyres, but they are pretty useless when it gets twenty below and you're driving on an icy road.

Being from northern Sweden I always use studded tyres in the winter, because that is the only thing that works on ice (unstudded tyres, even good ones, have nearly twice the braking distance on ice). And those are illegal to use in the summer.

The unstudded winter tyres are great in snow and sleet and i guess the all season ones can work on the continent where you only see snow or ice once in a blue moon, but they are not meant for Arctic conditions. Where I live you definitely need different tyres for different seasons.

Good quality non studded winters are almost as good in my experience. My work truck is a 1/2 ton Ford and I havetop end studded tires whereas my Japanese sumatomo non studded winters are almost as good but I save on the changeover costs twice a year.

Win/win