We have them on our crossover and they're excellent all year in Anchorage weather. Many of the responses comparing them to all season tires are misguided. The "all weather" tire is a different type of tire from an "all season" and they perform relativley close to many dedicated snow tires. They are a true year round tire for Anchorage weather. Never had an issue going anywhere around the state in winter including up to the ski hills in all conditions, running up to Fairbanks, or down to the Kenai.
It does depend on what and how you drive as well if you have an awd vehicle and a reasonably decent driver you should be good to go? If it's only 2wd I might lean toward separate snow tires, but they're probably fine for a front wheel drive car as well. For awd - I'd go for the crossclimates. I'd buy again if I were buying for our CUV today. I might even put them on my truck if they were available in truck sizes. Unfortunately the truck size crossclimate only shares the name, but not much else.
Just for a comparison from actual testing data I found that was done on the same car, same day, same track for snow braking distance from 20mph to 5mph:
Summer tire 120.9 feet
All Season tire 44.8 feet
CrossClimate2 36.8 feet
Winter Tire 34.7 feet.
The Crossclimate is about 5% different from the winter tire like the Blizzak, 30% better than the all season, and about 3.5 times shorter braking distance than the summer tires. Acceleration tests were similar on snow.
My personal experience is similar that I'd guess they're about 90% of the way to a winter tire vs a summer tire. And you don't have to swap them twice a year.
Michelin x-ice are pretty nice. Used my last set for 5 or 6 seasons. Had been so long since i bought them. They did a little RND
I have 70k on them and probably another 5k to go but I do have 5 tires total in rotation. The K02s are pretty quiet on road and perform well enough when offroading in the Sierras. Almost zero time in snow though.
On our second set with the Honda Pilot. Best tires ive ever owned. We live on the side of the mountain in Chugiak and drive the icy highway all the time. Deep snow, glare ice, no problem.
Not having to do seasonal tire changeover ever again is so nice
Get some CrossClimates great snow ready all-seasons. I had them on an AWD car when I lived on a rural island in the PNW. We had no snow plow except the neighbors little john deere.
I’m now a few thousand miles into a set of K03’s. The K03 solved all of the negative K02 issues and surpassed the AT3W. I’m very happy.
In September I switched to slightly narrower and taller Michelin Defender LTX M/S2 in 265/50R20, and they have been awesome. I’m now about 5000 miles in on the Defenders and have tested them in every environment this car can safely go. We drove from upstate NY to CO at fast highway speeds and they were great, felt better than the stock tires. We have been in eastern Idaho for a month and have done every fire road I can find between here and western WY and southwestern MT, and they have been flawless. We got snow overnight and into today, so I hit the dirt roads this morning and they were again flawless in mixed snow / gravel / mud.
Bfg trail Terrains. I’ve got them on my Explorer timberline when I replaced the duelers that came on it. They are great for the off-roading I do down forest service roads/etc and in snow. They are also way quieter than the duelers.
I had these on my 3 but my range took a major hit. They grip very well, but very inefficient.
I found those didnt wear well at all also noisy
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