Sport in Snow

Mine is fine. Crew cab short bed with pirelli tires. My longbed silverado was scary as fuck though.

 

Take mine (DCLB) up into the mountains skiing and never have had even a fleeting issue. Been in all sorts of stuff with it and it nails it.

Drove home from job site in the snow yesterday - about 2 inches - and it was fine. That was in rear wheel mode. Until I had to back up into a hill that was covered in snow. Had to 4 wheel it to back it up the incline.

 

Tires x 5000

With Duratracs I usually shut off my electrical traction nannys anytime I drive in the slick so I can have my fun

A little weight in the bed goes a long way too

 

yeah id be shitting myself if I drove a full size pickup on ice

 

No issues in my sport at all. Handles the snow great.

 

I'm in third winter, in WI, MN,, and U.P. DCLB stock Toyo A30 no problems at all.

 

As everyone else said, tires!

I had Yokohama snow tires on my Tacoma and they were great. On my last F-150, I went with Cooper AT3 4S tires to try to save money instead buying a second set of wheels and TPMS sensors. They were acceptable (not great) the first winter, but the second winter they were scary. For this F-150 I bought Nokian Hakkapeliitta R3s and they're fantastic. I just drove home through the current storm and I don't have to slow to a crawl so I wouldn't slide into every corner and the ABS barely does a thing when I stop. Good snow tires are worth it!

 

are you complaining about the tires and the lack of traction they provide? Or are you just hating on the Tacoma, kicking yourself in the ASS?

 

When you guys say things like “wet performance” and “in the wet” it implies rain or wet pavement to me, but I think you are taking about snow in this thread. The two are quite distinct in my mind.

 

Got rid of mine at 4,000 miles, their dry performance sucked. Sounds like they were an all-around tire.

 

I think it could be said for just about every OEM tire that we have had since the '90s? Once the Exploder shitstorm happened, automakers seemed to have swapped to tires that have very little cornering traction on the everyday vehicles (slide versus roll?), as well as tires with minimal rolling resistance. The 1996 came with a good set of Michelins. After that, it was a shit-tay set of Pirelli P6, Bridgestone Duelers HL400 (I think?), and these Toyos.

A friend's Lexus came with a gawd awful set of tires that I warned him about. Ended up rear ending someone not long after.

 

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Little of both I guess.

 

Snow performance in a 4WD on snow covered roads has very little to do with the design or build quality of any one truck compared to the other in the same class of vehicle. Traction control nannies can help but are not as important as these two factors:

- Tire type and PSI
- Overall weight of vehicle

 

Getting another foot tonight on top of the 18 or so right now. I'll be staying home for awhile.

 

No slipping issues from my sport.

 

Has nothing to do with you having a sport. 4wd sport and off road are going to behave exactly the same in 4hi. ATRAC and all the other OR goodies don't kick in until 4lo and you shouldn't/wont' be running in low range on the highway.

As everyone else has said stock tires suck.

 

Get some tires, the sport truck work great in the snow.

 

Greetings from Canada. These thread are hilarious.

 

Has anyone mentioned tires yet?

But seriously, tires. Full size pickups are pretty good in the snow, but often create overconfidence as well. I have seen a lot of full size trucks in the ditch and can count on one hand how many mid size trucks I've seen in the ditch. Most of those were 2WD S10's.