stock tires in snow

[phillyfx4]

got the Goodyear LT 315/70R17 R/T tires with my 2025 Sasquatch Outer Banks

anybody been thru decent snowfalls with these yet ?

thanks

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[VirginiaHeritage]

For what it’s worth, here’s one snow review from a Tacoma Trailhunter guy, and it’s not exactly glowing:

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/good...n7R42iHn79wxXgu5DFa4KzLKFJmw1_#RatingsReviews

 

[RagnarKon]

The tires launched in 2024, and so far have only been available on the 2024+ Tacoma and 2025 Bronco.

Most people got their '25 Bronco near around early March as the snow was melting, so you'd probably have to go to a Tacoma community to get any real reviews. Just don't have a ton experience in the Bronco world yet.

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My personal speculation:

Most cars on the road have one of the following tires:

• Summer/Touring
• All-Season
• All-Terrain
• Mud-Terrain.

All-Terrain are usually the best in the snow, followed by All-Season, Mud-Terrain, and obviously Summer in last place. Now tire manufactures are getting creative and doing these "in-betweeners", such as Trail-Terrain (in between an All-Season and All-Terrain), and Rugged Terrain (between All-Terrain and Mud-Terrain).

Your tires fall into that Rugged Terrain camp, so I would expect it to be not as good as your typical All-Terrain, but not as bad as a Mud Terrain.

All of the others tires in the review that @VirginiaHeritage posted are All-Terrains with 3-Peak ratings, so I would expect them to perform much better in the snow than what he had originally.

 

[phillyfx4]

Ragnar, I had BFG KO2's on my traded in 2008 F 150 only 5K miles on them
they were *awesome* in the snow, why I came here to ask the question .

saw a vid online that the R/T "rough terrains'" like you said are a cross btwn the AT and MT's
guess I'll find out come the Fall here around Philly Pa .....we either get some or get blasted

quick question, just regular pressure when it snows around 36 psi ?
btw, I have slid taking a turn on wet roads, not bad, but I definitely felt it.....

thanks gents

 

[RagnarKon]

Ragnar, I had BFG KO2's on my traded in 2008 F 150 only 5K miles on them
they were *awesome* in the snow, why I came here to ask the question .

saw a vid online that the R/T "rough terrains'" like you said are a cross btwn the AT and MT's
guess I'll find out come the Fall here around Philly Pa .....we either get some or get blasted

quick question, just regular pressure when it snows around 36 psi ?
btw, I have slid taking a turn on wet roads, not bad, but I definitely felt it.....

thanks gents

Yeah, I'm in New England so snow performance was important for me. One of the reasons why I went with the non-Sasquatch Badlands is because the BFG KO2 is standard factory tire for that config and the Bronco Raptor. (Might be KO3 for 2025? Not sure to be honest.)

For airing down it really depends on the snow. White fluffy powdery snow behaves different than the wet dense stuff. But yeah, I do air down on frequently when there is a ton of snow on the ground. Haven't had a need to go below 25 PSI though.

 

[VirginiaHeritage]

The tires launched in 2024, and so far have only been available on the 2024+ Tacoma and 2025 Bronco.

Most people got their '25 Bronco near around early March as the snow was melting, so you'd probably have to go to a Tacoma community to get any real reviews. Just don't have a ton experience in the Bronco world yet.

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My personal speculation:

Most cars on the road have one of the following tires:

• Summer/Touring
• All-Season
• All-Terrain
• Mud-Terrain.

All-Terrain are usually the best in the snow, followed by All-Season, Mud-Terrain, and obviously Summer in last place. Now tire manufactures are getting creative and doing these "in-betweeners", such as Trail-Terrain (in between an All-Season and All-Terrain), and Rugged Terrain (between All-Terrain and Mud-Terrain).

Your tires fall into that Rugged Terrain camp, so I would expect it to be not as good as your typical All-Terrain, but not as bad as a Mud Terrain.

Informative, thanks. RT is completely new to me and now I get it.

You might also say it stands for Rock Thrower in this case.

 

[Brian_B]

The Goodyear MTs are actually really good in snow. I was running around up to 3 ft of the stuff this past winter with them, and part of that while stuck in 2wd. I would expect the RTs to follow suit, but I don’t know. For the Goodyear, MT doesn’t mean Mud Terrain though, so I dunno how that sits on @RagnarKon chart of tires…

 

[RagnarKon]

The Goodyear MTs are actually really good in snow. I was running around up to 3 ft of the stuff this past winter with them, and part of that while stuck in 2wd. I would expect the RTs to follow suit, but I don’t know. For the Goodyear, MT doesn’t mean Mud Terrain though, so I dunno how that sits on @RagnarKon chart of tires…

Eh, my potentially hot take for the day:

The Goodyear MTs are basically an R/T tire. They seem to be closer to the All-Terrain side than the new Goodyear R/Ts, but they're basically an R/T.

I'm pretty sure tire manufactures just throw random marketing nonsense at the wall to see what sticks. Goodyear said "MT" stood for "Maximum Traction". I've seen other tire manufacturers use "XT" for "Extreme Traction". But both are really just R/T tires.

Not that "R/T" is an official tire designation or anything, it's just a name a bunch of different tire manufactures seem to have coalesced around. And even then... I doubt they would be able to tell you if it means "Rugged Terrain" or "Rough Terrain".

 

[adam1991]

There are worse ways to spend money than replacing factory tires right away.

 

[adam1991]

I'm pretty sure tire manufactures all marketing people just throw random marketing nonsense at the wall to see what sticks.

FTFY.

 

[VirginiaHeritage]

The Goodyear MTs are actually really good in snow. I was running around up to 3 ft of the stuff this past winter with them, and part of that while stuck in 2wd. I would expect the RTs to follow suit, but I don’t know. For the Goodyear, MT doesn’t mean Mud Terrain though, so I dunno how that sits on @RagnarKon chart of tires…

It’s at least possible the RTs will perform better in snow on Broncos than on a Tacoma. Might be awhile before I find out, living in Virginia.

It would be kind of embarrassing to have to leave the Bronco at home on snow days and take the Subaru sedan instead. I already do that with my 4WD Colorado.

 

[VirginiaHeritage]

There are worse ways to spend money than replacing factory tires right away.

True, like replacing my factory windshield right away.

 

[BlueWaffle]

Tire performance in snow is largely subjective from what I've found.. familiarity with driving in the snow and skill level also play a big role.


Some folks insist running *whatever tire name here* will leave you dead in a ditch..

Other people.. like me.. have driven through multiple winters on tires with cord showing so

 

[Scoop]

My stock SAS tires have performed very well in the snow and ice here in Colorado.

 

[EOSeabee]

got the Goodyear LT 315/70R17 R/T tires with my 2025 Sasquatch Outer Banks

anybody been thru decent snowfalls with these yet ?

thanks

I’ve been in some pretty deep snow, and the stock GY’rs worked great.

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