20 Best Tires For Snow Plowing (2023 Updated)

I loved these tires so much that I bought them again. I live in the country and have to drive up a steep driveway. I could not make it up or down with any snow or ice on the driveway. I had to park at the bottom and walk up the steep hill, in the cold and lugging supplies for our home.

The. Symptoms tires made all the difference on that hill. I also was able to drive on the roads without slipping all around. I love them so much that I kept them on in the summer. They really helped when I drove on all the back and dirt roads I need to drive on.

They even saved me from getting stuck a few times. With my other tires I would have been stuck, but now with sumitomo, I get to where I’m going safely. Thank you.

This is not so much a review on the tire but on the manufacturer. I ordered 4 tires. Went to have them installed and two were damaged. Kept 2 and returned the damaged and reordered 2 tires. 2 tires arrived, 1 damaged.

Since I now have no confidence that the 3 I have don’t have some type of defect, I am returning all of them and switching to another tire. The reviews I read were very good, I was told they have never seen this issue but after two orders I still do not have 4 tires, I will try something else.

This was clearly not the fault of Walmart. They were very helpful with the issue.

Put a set of 4 on my AWD 2011 Durango Citadel, and my wife and I loved them. Excellent traction even on the wet slushy and mealy snow we get in NY. They also performed fairly well on icy roads without the optional studs you can get with them.

Only complaint i have with them is the road noise, but honestly with an aggressive snow tire like this your bound to have some road noise. This is also our 3rd year i have installed them and there still better then half the life of the tire left after putting nearly 20k miles on them.

I work as a mechanic so i have seen MANY different types of snow/summer tires go out of our shop. Many of our customers run the Blizzaks but i have talked to a few customers who switched to these Sumitomo Ice Edges for the main reason of “They were nearly half the price of the Blizzaks”.

Each one of them said they would glady buy another set because of how well they performed especially at the price point. I will also buy another set when the time comes. very satisfied with this tire.

I normally use a different brand of snow tire, but time & availability dictated that I try a different tire. I put them on my 2002 Toyota Avalon and headed east into a winter storm on I-90. Between the Montana border & Missoula there was a period of over an hour where I didn’t see another vehicle going the same direction as me.

Deep snow and near white-out conditions but these tires just pushed ahead, never giving any hint of slippage. I drove them safely through the storm then onto cold & icy conditions in Wyoming & Colorado on our way to Florida.

On the return trip we encountered more winter storms on our way to California. At Donner Pass we were forced to chain up just because we didn’t have 4WD. I drove just far enough to get out of sight of the patrol station, got out & removed the chains, then headed on in much better conditions that we had driven through in Montana.

I would highly recommend this tire for deep snow as well as compact snow & ice. They have performed much better than expected.

I run these tires on all my vehicles winter and summer. Great wet traction in the rain and excellent traction in the snow. We need to get out in the winter and live in the boonies so good snow tires are a must.

In the summer, living on a dirt road means mud and these tires handle slick mud roads as well as they handle snow covered roads. I run off road in the summer getting into and out of farm fields so good traction off road is a must.

These tires are a bit noisy but not offensively. They are directional tires so they must be mounted according to the directional arrows on the sidewalls and rotated regularly. My recommendation is rotating them every oil change or 10,000 miles.

I recommend them for any type of hazardous driving, snow, rain or mud. If you have to go, these tires will get you there. The LT truck tires are rated 10 ply for heavy loading as well. I have a set (from Tire Buyer) on my wife’s SUV and with 20K miles on them, no apparent wear.

I live in Idaho and we get all types of weather. I purchased this set of FIrestones for the winter months that, sometimes, go from October to April. Four years later, they need replaced after leaving them on year after year, even through the summer months.

We probably put 25,000 miles on them over the course of four years but, remember, they are winter tires and we didn’t remove them at the end of winter. I would assume they would still have a lot of tread if we had done this.

As for winter driving, they performed very well. We never got stuck in the sometimes 8 inches of snow in our long driveway. We never slid off the icy roads, and we had roads that were straight ice a few times last winter.

I am impressed with the tires and would definitely buy again.

In October 2020 we would soon need new snow tires for both of our vehicles so I started looking around at what was available. I previously had General Altimax Artic winter tires on my vehicle and even after 5 years they were still great in winter conditions but I figured it was time to replace them.

On our other vehicle we previously had Continental WinterContact SI Plus tires. My wife does more driving than me so I was not surprised these tires were wearing a bit faster but had provided excellent traction for three winter seasons.

According to Canadian Tire the Michelin X-Ice® SNOW was the top rated winter tire, just ahead of the Continental WinterContact SI Plus. (For some reason the General Altimax Artic tire had no CT rating despite having excellent customer reviews).

We purchased two sets of the Michelin tires and assumed they would be great in winter conditions. When winter weather finally hit we were shocked to find both of our AWD vehicles were sliding (fish-tailing) at the slightest sign of snow, slush, or ice on the roads.

Neither of us drive aggressively and had experienced no sliding of this type in similar conditions on our previous winter tires. These Michelin X-Ice® SNOW tires are the worst performing winter tires I have ever owned, especially considering their premium price.

Michelin touts the tires long tread life in their ads, saying that you can get an extra winter out of them compared to other brands. I have no doubt that this is the case but I’d rather have three seasons of excellent winter traction than four seasons of poor traction.

I wish we had went with the Generals or Continentals again. I don’t know how CT rated these Michelins as the top winter tire, They must have tested them on bare, dry roads.

With increasing gas prices, I decided to keep my car three more years so I took advantage of an end-of-winter sale and replaced my older Michelin x-ice tires with a new set. My car is hybrid-electric, so when it’s running strictly on battery, it’s very quiet.

After a month of driving, I cannot believe how much more quiet this tire is compared to the previous generation. I got a good price, a highly rated Michelin tire, and I’m set for the next three or four seasons.

The sales team was a bit of a fast-talking crew, promised a few things they did not deliver, like a Michelin rebate directly from the manufacturer, but overall, I am pleased and would recommend this tire without hesitation.

Replaced these tires on BMW 431 ( had Pirelli snow tires on ); There is roll at corninrind , feel slike going to loose traction; On snow and ice; 10% better than summer tires. Only good thing about them is less tires noise.

loose traction on 1 inch of snow; Do not buy these tires, waste of money; I have been Michellin tire owners for 30 years, this will be my last Michelline purchase.

I bought these tires to go on my daughter’s 2002 Chevy Impala. We don’t get a tremendous amount of show in Pierre, and what snow we do get often melts before the next snowfall. What we end up with are streets that aren’t always plowed (because of only an inch or two of snowfall) which become covered with packed and glazed snow.

It may begin to melt, but then it refreezes at night. We also have lots of hilly streets, so having tires that brake well on ice is a priority. These Winterforce tires performed well in snow, but they slid considerably on glazed snow and ice.

My daughter told me a few days ago that she slid into an intersection near our house, so being the suspicious dad who didn’t automatically believe her denial that she was not over-driving the road conditions, I took the car out to test it on the icy streets.

The Winterforce tires slid when braking and during acceleration. I took my wife’s car our to test her Bridgestone Blizzak tires with over 20k miles on them, and there was no sliding whatsoever at similar speeds.

Thankfully, the Winterforce tires were new enough to be studded. Now, $85 later, my daughter has a car that can handle icy roads. I wouldn’t recommend these tires to anyone who encounters more glazed snow and ice than they do snow.

If snow is your menace, these will do fine.

Ive had 2 pairs of these tires (13″ and 14″) and have ran them on 4 different vehicles (98 4dr stratus, 2 96 neons, and a 98 metro). They are an excellent tire for mud/snow. They are pretty soft and have an aggressive tread pattern, at least for a car tire.

These two features make them (in my opinion) unbeatable if you deal with snow of if you like to have a bit of fun in light off-road situations. Though i got great life (4 years) out of my first pair, i didnt run them year-round.

Cons: All of the things that make this tire great are also its down sides. Aggressive, deep tread means there will be a small amount of road noise at speed and you may get some wallowing up front if you take sharp turns too quickly.

The soft rubber compound means that you will get great grip, especially in summer, but you will eat them up quickly if you run them year-round, spin them a lot, or travel mostly on dry pavements. I once read that tires are like shoes; dont wear slick sandals in the snow and dont wear insulated studded boots on the beach.

Just use common sense with them. In all, i HIGHLY recommend these tires. They are extremely capable in mud and snow and have literally given me several years of dependable service.

I drive 400 miles per day / 5 days a week in Central/SE Wisconsin at 60-80 mph almost completely on rural highways and freeways in a 2012 Chrysler Town & Country minivan. I’m mostly out before the plows, and end up driving on some pretty crappy roads.

While these tires perform admiralty in heavy snow, lower Wisconsin doesn’t have a lot of that. What we do get is a lot of black ice! I bought these because of the deep tread and ice rating hoping they would live more than a few months (which the did), but linear stability is very poor as they do not have any deep, straight grooves or tread bars and no defined shoulder blocks.

I ran a Nokian WRG3’s before theses,and they are a much superior tire in all aspects of winter driving in Wisconsin and I got 2 seasons (65k total) out of them to boot. I run dedicated summer tires. I run winter tires November – late March.

UPDATE: 04. 12. 2020 After moving these tires to a 2016 Subaru Outback (same size tires as Town & Country), they perform admirably on the Outback! After 2 seasons on 2 vehicles, I still have 65% tread left! I just bought another set for my 2011 VW Golf Sportwagen.

Will update after this winter.

Great tires for the money and I believe underrated and or overlooked by many. The tread groove directional pattern is excellent on both snow and ice. This tire is slightly narrower through the road contact mid section thus allowing greater transfer of weight to the road surface.

It is the opposite to summer requirements as a narrower tire provides better surface grip. This is a snow tire not a mud and snow or 4 season hybrid which is ok in the city but a mess in a country setting.

All channels including the ice channels go to the base of the tread not like some tires where the grooves stop halfway. The soft rubber compound stays flexible at low temperatures and this tire I find is much lighter that a lot of other snow tires I have had, It is also an attractive tire once mounted on a rim unlike some bulky versions.

It also rides quiet on the road on my older f-150 fx4. Love this tire and recommend it to anyone on a budget looking for a great snow tire.

Purchased 4 Winterforce tires. Have had extremely good luck with these in the past. Since mounting them on the vehicle, my vehicle was in the shop 3 times with what we thought were alignment issues – in addition, the performance in the snow didn’t compare to Blizzaks or Arctic’s I have on my other vehicles.

We decided to switch back to the previous tires and it drove straight as an arrow. In compliance with their policy, since they were mounted and had roughly 100 miles on them, I understand I could not return them; however I would have liked to purchase another set from Priority.

I could not get a reply from Customer Service about if there would be any assistance or discount in another purchase. Don’t waste your time with wholesale, support a local shop where if there is an issue with your tires, the warranty is hassle free and you’ll have support.

These tires have exceeded our expectaions by a mile. We had them put on last week and the same night we picked up our 2wd Chevy S10 from Walmart, we had a snow storm of a couple inches of wet slippery snow.

On our 30 minute drive home, we passed several vehicles that were going around 20 mph while we were able to go the full speed limit of 55mph without any trouble. I did put 280 lbs. of sandbags in the bed over the rear wheels but I never expected the traction to be so good on a lightweight pickup like ours.

With the previous tires, the truck would break loose from the road even in mildly damp rain conditions.

I have used both the winterforce and the winterforce 2 on my Chevy S10 for several WV winter seasons now and my S10 is 2wd. And I must say that I have no trouble getting around anywhere I need to go, interstate included.

First set of 2’s I got, I decided to get all 4 studded, but I found the front tires felt vague (steering wise) because of the studs. But I removed the studs and I loved the front tires and they handled great after that.

I can only imagine how these tires are on a AWD or 4wd. Highly recommend these tires. Saved my life on several occasions and I will continue to buy them till they come out w a WF3.

These tires are what kept me from having any issues while traveling home for the holidays in western ND where 30 degree temps and freezing rain left the roads covered in fresh glare ice. the tires kept my 21 durango on the road firmly planted and i made it to my family without incident.

other travelers sharing the road with me kept me slowing down. but i am a believer. thanks priority tire for selling a brand that i will definitely purchase from again for my other vehicles.

Nice looking tires, rubber feels flexible enough to take on cold weather and not become hard as wood as temp drops. Medium-angry thread by choice as I do a lot of highway driving. If there is an option – would be nice to come back and leave feedback about how did these took balance (i.

e. amount weights needed to balance = uniform of manufacturing process) and actually handle winter. It is end of Sept and I just got them. Took about 2 weeks to receive so if you think you’d place the order and get the goodies in couple of days – I would not count on it, my advice – dont make installation appointment till you actually receive the order.

I put these on my 2017 Audi Q7, which rode about as smooth as any car I’ve ever been in. until these went on that is. Now it has a vibration. I went back to the shop to have them re-balanced and they all balanced out great.

Not sure what the issue is. They went on the same wheels as the summer tires, so nothing has changed with the car. I am going to give it a week and see if it somehow improves after I drive for a while but if not, these are coming back off.

Tires, so far, have been great in the snow and ice. I was a bit surprised that they came with only 9. 5/32 tread new, especially after adding the “snow” to the tire name. I’m hoping that the tread is durable enough to get me through at least four seasons with that.

Today, I noticed that they are definitely prone to hydroplaning in moderate to heavy rain, so be careful. I would assume that possibly a slightly deeper tread might reduce that issue. If it wasn’t for that aspect, it would have definitely been a five star rating.

Long time Michelin X-ICE winter tire owner and we bought a new set for our Honda Ridgeline and these are great tires. Recently had accumulations of snow on our roads and these tires handled it like a champ.

Going from a dead stop to safe speeds is pretty much instant with little to no wheel spin. Braking is also great and as long as you RESPECT the weather and road conditions, you shouldn’t have any issues navigating through snow build up, corners or slippery bridge and on/off ramps.

Great tires and would highly recommend these if you’re looking for a winter tire.

I’ve owned Blizzaks since the WS-60 (2012 or so). While the different generations have their advantages, they are all great snow tires. These were a great deal. Bought 2 sets. Mounted and awaiting winter.

I have put on 10,000 kms on these tires and have to say that I am extremely impressed with the performance in all conditions. I travel throughout rural western Canada and have encountered some terrible conditions but these tires have made glare ice, heavy snow, abrupt city intersection stopping a non issue.

So far they have worn approximately 2/32nds, and have been rotated. No loss of studs. The increase in noise was minimal. I noticed it was a little louder up to 50kph on dry conditions, but if there’s snow that is greatly reduced.

At speeds of 100kph or higher I didn’t really notice a change and keep in mind this is a base for Escape front wheel drive, not exactly the quietest car on the market. I spent hours researching the best winter tires for performance and wear and after reading about the success these tires had in Europe I figured why not give it a go.

and I’m glad I did. There’s really no comparison between these and the previous set of studless (super popular) tired I had previously used and been used to. As far as negatives go, I don’t have much to say yet.

They work exceptionally well, the wear is good given the conditions and no loss of studs. I think if you’re looking for a great set of winter tires and are on the fence about studs, Jump off the fence and give these a go.

The increase in control will amaze you. I’m glad I did. Be safe everyone!.

These tires are the best we’ve ever had. They plow our little car through deep snow with no problems and they stick to ice better than we ever expected them to. The last set of winter tires we had couldn’t hold a candle to these tires.

The noise is much quieter than any others we’ve had and the way they handle on corners is much better than we would have expected from a winter tire. A big thumbs up to Michelin for these tires!.

Great winter tires. I realized that I was basically stuck in my driveway trying to use all seasons on an incline to exit the driveway. These tires are FANTASTIC. The traction on them is amazing and for country and highway driving, I’d definitely recommend.

No need to build up speed just to get on the road anymore.

This tire is so far amazingly quiet and the handling is superior, didn’t yet experience it in snow, i like it better then the original Pirelli Scorpion