Whmorken
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- First Name
- Hubert
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2019
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- Location
- Jackson, WY
- Vehicles
- Tesla X. Toyota Land Cruiser.
- Occupation
- Retired
Lived in Park City for 21 years. Now in Jackson. Awaiting R1S ordered March 2019 with 20” all terrains. I identify. Have an ICE vehicle and an X here deep in the Teton Park and into my 3rd winter here. The ICE has studded tires. No slips so far. The X has winter tires that do slip though not generally. In my circumstances, driving on snow covered dirt roads or on a two lane paved road with snow and ice all winter, plus real storms, got to go studded. Will shop this summer. Looking first at Nokian. P. S. In Park City I used winter tires.R1T on 22" all-season tires: I live in the Utah mountains and we have 3+ feet of snow on the ground, so I have driven up and down the mountain passes to the ski resort 12 mins away many times, with little issue. However, today we headed up to Snowbird as the snow was falling hard. It had turned from rain to slush to snow and was admittedly slicker than normal, but as we progressed up a steeper incline, I couldn't keep the truck from sliding sideways as the tires slipped. The truck slowed to 8 to 9 mph and wouldn't go faster. I couldn't even make the tires spin if I wanted to. It was like it went into a turtle mode but had no indicators. I decided to put it in Sand mode as none of the other modes seemed to help, as I hadn't updated the software to have access to a Snow mode yet. I barely made it to snowbird. Yes, i don't have dedicated snow tires and I am sure I will get a lot of "duh" comments saying they aren't meant for snow and they are also 22" but it is disappointing performance regardless. Unlike a traditional 4x4 (5 Jeep Grand Cherokees in our family over the years), there wasn't that clear sense of the 4x4 doing some extra work despite poor tire grip.
Time to bite the bullet for snow tires.
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