New tires for steel wheels

So, here it snowing in NY and I just realized driving up a hill, that my tires don't have enough tread for snow, so what size and what's good in the snow and not too noisy on the highway.

Thanks

John

I've heard a lot of good things about Duratracs in the snow.

I have also heard that BFG all terrains are pretty good in the snow..

Snow flake rated that i would buy are either duratracs or silent armors. The latter being more highway friendly but won't dig through snow banks like the duratracs but are very acceptable.

2 Co workers are using Firestone Destination AT and Yoko Geolander AT. Neither have the symbol but seem to do just fine if your need more tread with highway livability.

Work trucks used to have wrangler Territorys (Can tire only, similar deal to GY Authoritys at Walmart), Silent armors, and BFG AT KOs now they all have duratracs. Trucks spend 75% of their time on mine site gravel.

Or you can just go with legitimate winter tires that you change out seasonally like i did for 5 years. The above listed are more capable for the rest of the year. Oodles of threads on the first 3 pages of the tires forum on the subject.

Size

If your stock with 16 inch rims, 235 70 16, 225 75 16, or if your not sagged horribly 245 70 16(slightly larger).

I would look at canadian tire review. Since over here we have a lot more concern about snow. If it's good enough for canada snowy road, it should do great down the border.

On another note, I'm pretty sure that tire that are available here are probably not on your side. I never heard of most of the tire brand I saw on this forum.

Silent Armor are pretty much silent compared to Duratracs ... not that I mind, but they are not quiet. I would buy both again.

First thing I would do is measure your spring sag ... center of hub to bottom of flare. as long as your over 18 you should be OK with 245/70/16 maybe some minor plastic trimming/melting. That size fills out the wheel wells a little better and looks great on an unlifted KJ.

happy hunting

P.S. Best place for reviews that I have found is Tirerack... you can even search for reviews that pertain only to Liberty's/Jeeps if you wish.

I would go with the decent A/T tire of your choice if you're going for a year round tires. Plenty of threads around here about which ones are good.

BFGs suck in snow compared to Duratracs and other tires that have come out like them in the past few years.
Like mentioned look at the ratings on TireRack and other sites
I used to see the H out of BFGs back in the day, but anymore so many better tires overall to run

What size Duratracs?

Cardhu said:

Size

If your stock with 16 inch rims, 235 70 16, 225 75 16, or if your not sagged horribly 245 70 16(slightly larger).

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Luke said:

First thing I would do is measure your spring sag ... center of hub to bottom of flare. as long as your over 18 you should be OK with 245/70/16 maybe some minor plastic trimming/melting. That size fills out the wheel wells a little better and looks great on an unlifted KJ.

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:shrug: Does anybody read anymore?

Luke said:

:shrug: Does anybody read anymore?

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My thoughts exactly... c'mon jdonovan. You gotta help yourself if you want others to help you.

Luke said:

:shrug: Does anybody read anymore?

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Nope :shrug::happy175:

Sorry all, I was reading other threads and never read my own thread

jdonovan said:

Sorry all, I was reading other threads and never read my own thread

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No problem
you're still new so we'll give you a break for another 4 days :killit: