2022 RWD in Snow/Winter Weather

[duneslider]

If I had a 2wd I wouldn't bother with 3peak tires. Just get real snow tires to run in the winter. There is no replacement for real snow tires.

 

[parsonj]

Surprised no one has mentioned getting familiar and comfortable with your manual gear selection. Using the engine to control your speed will help keep you out of trouble that brakes will often get you into

 

[Deadman]

If I had a 2wd I wouldn't bother with 3peak tires. Just get real snow tires to run in the winter. There is no replacement for real snow tires.

Exactly. I see some 3 peak tires and laugh as I know they won't do well in snow compared to a real snow tire. I run snow tires on my work beater car, and that thing will go thru ridiculous amounts of snow under control and even at higher speeds.

 

[Fizzy]

Surprised no one has mentioned getting familiar and comfortable with your manual gear selection. Using the engine to control your speed will help keep you out of trouble that brakes will often get you into

As someone who lives in the frozen north... no. These aren't manual stick vehicles with user controllable clutches. Screwing around with the pseudo-manual gear selector on a fully auto vehicle to get yourself out of trouble is a one way ticket to the wrecking yard.

 

[ib_jigged]

My first pick-up was a 2WD and I never had that stuck. Traded it for a 4WD and was stuck a lot! Mostly because I thought I was now invincible with 4WD!

 

[Calidad]

Exactly. I see some 3 peak tires and laugh as I know they won't do well in snow compared to a real snow tire. I run snow tires on my work beater car, and that thing will go thru ridiculous amounts of snow under control and even at higher speeds.

Not everyone needs full snow tires either. Which case 3peak is a great option otherwise you burn through a set of Snow tires driving on dry pavement

 

[duneslider]

Not everyone needs full snow tires either. Which case 3peak is a great option otherwise you burn through a set of Snow tires driving on dry pavement

If I lived in California, yep three peak is good enough. Heck, even in Utah, 3peak might be enough. It gets a little hilly where I live and every winter I pass people on the side of the road in 2wd that aren't going anywhere even plenty of AWD's that aren't going anywhere. If I had a 2wd and lived where I did I would get snow tires. I have been fine with 4wd though. My bald mud tires did pretty well last winter too, luckily the front had a little more tread than the rear but I kept expecting to have issues. Luckily, we don't get a lot of ice here.

I haven't been that impressed with the 3peak tires I have had when it came to snow and ice, that said I just run mud tires on my jeep cause they seem to do just as well as the 3peaks I have tried.

The Michelin Crossclimate2 is used a lot in my area and people seem to like it a lot and it seems to last a long time. I may give them a go if I keep the 22's on my exp.

 

[Fastcar]

I used Blizzak tires, a dedicated snow/ice tire. I'd put them on in November and take them off in April. Calidad is correct, they would go away real quick in warm weather.

 

[GixxerJasen]

The problem with running dedicated snow tires, that I can see, is the weather, at least where I lived in Cleveland(Parma). It was all flat and it'd snow a ton and be deep and cold for several days. They'd plow and salt the roads of course, and then the temps would pop back up to the 50's for a few days and the roads would be dry and warmish. Then it'd get cold and snow again. All Season tires worked fine there.

 

[Fastcar]

The problem with running dedicated snow tires, that I can see, is the weather, at least where I lived in Cleveland(Parma). It was all flat and it'd snow a ton and be deep and cold for several days. They'd plow and salt the roads of course, and then the temps would pop back up to the 50's for a few days and the roads would be dry and warmish. Then it'd get cold and snow again. All Season tires worked fine there.

All season tires are sorta like a swiss army knife, they do a bunch of things but none of them real well imo. I remember reading that to qualify as a all season tire it had to move through 3" of snow. But to each his own.