Tires Goodyear or Nokia
Took advice and bought 20" AS wheels and Goodyear Wrangler tires at the Richmond SC, and they realigned. Massive improvement.
Just bought good year assurance tires, delivered to a walmart tire center, and installed a day later in 30 mins by walmart tire for a total of 430.
Anything AT with 3PMS rating. I like Goodyear Wrangler.
Goodyear reliant from Walmart are still on sale, I have them on my beater, they’re great!
If you are also borderline on needing summer tires, buy Goodyear Assurance Weatherready tires. They are not snow tires, but are the best all-season tires for snow.
The one proviso, buy good tires. I have All-Weather Nokians on my Forester, world of difference.
It runs Nokian Encompass AW01s which are a 3MP snowflake rated all weather tire and it's been really good in increasingly mild Wisconsin winters since 2022.
I actually didn't hate them on jeeps I've had in the past. Both my tj and xj had them. Iirc they were a 45k tire. Did ok in the ice and snow, but not excellent. Honestly they were pretty ok tires. With reasonable care, they Delt with slush and light snow pretty well when above the bottom 1/3 of the Tread. Ice was so-so, Reasonable enough to stop my xj without abs. They did pretty good off road, good enough to keep up with a stock or lightly modded jeep, and would probably tackle trails fine with careful lines and good technique. They fell flat in the wet. They were a little bit slick in the rain on pavement, and would turn into a grease ball in the mud.... But they weren't a mud tire. I bet they would be A perfectly reasonable choice for anybody living south of Iowa, or out west. Within reason they were just fine in Minnesota as well.
Our 2021 Hyundai Kona Limited AWD came from the factory with Goodyear Eagle Touring 235/45R18s. At 28,783 miles we only have 3/32nds of tred left and will be getting new tires very soon - they won't be Goodyear!
Bought a 2023 GMC 1500 AT4 with the Goodyear wranglers on them. By far the loudest tire I’ve ever heard on a vehicle. From 45-60 you could barely have a conversation it was so loud. I ended up going with the Cooper AT’s and man…. It’s like I’m driving an entire different vehicle. So much smoother, way quieter like zero noise quiet.
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