Which snow tire for Central Newfoundland Winters

Hello all,

I live in central NL where we tend to have wet, slushy, snowy winters with lots of black ice on the road. Winter road conditions last from mid to end of November to the end of March.

I'm wondering if I should go with a more Mud/truck tire like the Cooper or General Tire Grabber Arctic or if I should go with more of an ice tire like the Nokian HK 10 SUV Studded or the Continental Icecontact XTRM CD Studded

so:
Cooper Discoverer M+S (studded) or Continental Icecontact XTRM CD Studded?

Thanks for your input.

 

You want a directional winter tire, any truck tire rated for winter will never come close to the useable performance of a good directional winter.

Directional ejects the slush much better. I've had many tires in Alberta (I'm a tech here) and won't go back to a truck style in winter. Nor will I go studded again.

I always just suggest blizzaks, they are soft so good for packed snow and ice, directional good for wet, and still a truck tire so good for snow.

A good studless will out perform a studded tire until its -25 or colder. So we only suggest it for mountains or northern climates.

So Blizzak DMV2, Michelin Snow and Ice, or Yokohama G075.

If studded is needed, the Conti is a great tire but they have limited life spans.

 

Do your local Emergency Services(highway patrol, ambulances,etc) run studded tires?

 

Not for ages, but sometimes they just put on what ever tire they can get for each vehicle.

I work on federal police vehicles and we'll see studs on a few of them, but most of the time its regular michelin winters.

 

Nokian Hakkapeliita, Gislavid Nordfrost, Michelin X-ICE or Crossclimate, and put them on all four wheels. I had four Gislavid dedicated snow tires on a rear-wheel drive Volvo 245 and it was unstoppable, even in deep, un-plowed snow.

 

So pretty much everyone is in favour of road orientated snow tires due to the performance being vastly superior. Fair enough. I will be going factory studded in the on road tire. Thank you