Tires Cooper or Nokia
Incredible in mud and snow. I have them on an f350 dually. It will literally go anywhere on the jobsite. I also put them on my personal f150 I was so impressed. I've plowed through 3' snow drifts with ease.
I have driven on winter tires by Michelin, BFGoodrich, Goodyear, Toyota, Bridgestone (Blizzaks), and nothing beats Nokian PERIOD.
Coopers are good tires if you rotate them they literally last forever. I’ve managed to get 80-100,000 good kms out of the discoverer stt pro and st max. Ran AT3s as well and got even more as you don’t really have big lugs to lose anyway.
Yes Nokian makes excellent tires. They’re just not as well known as the household names.
Put them on my AWD Subaru Assent and with around 8K miles had a 10 inch snow with 12 inch drifts and I drove it in a remote field of snow a good distance and down a remote gravel and paved road with that amount of snow and it was a beast! These tires are quiet and handle really well on my 165 round trip daily commute to work, especially when it's raining....
Nokian One - excellent tire.
And ever since I bought my first Nokian winter tire is that the only winter tire I use.
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I would skip the encompass aw01s. I had a set WR G3s and then a set of WR G4s and they were great with low noise and great traction. I then tried these since they were on sale, and I didn’t find them as good as the prior two sets of nokians. They seemed noisier and only excelled in standing water traction. Otherwise snow conditions seemed just average.
I bought coopers about 3 years ago for my Silverado 1500. I will be honest this isn't an apples to apples comparison, I bought 4 ply (first mistake) AT3 4s's. They are cracking between the tread blocks on all 4 tires. Cooper won't warranty them saying it's just cosmetic, but they are deep cracks that go all the way around the tires between tread blocks on the inside and outside. I don't use chemicals or tire shine, and they are always kept at the appropriate pressures. They also lose chunks of tread every time i take them on the gravel roads in the mountains. I'm not happy with them at all, so my recommendation is to go with the K03's.
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