Topic: X3 Winters?

[Fobroader]

I've never had a bad snow tire unless the snow was deep enough to high centre my vehicle, in which case I had no weight on the tires and no winter tire is going to get you out of that. I've had bad ice tires.

This is 100% correct. This is why the Jeep and the GX have studded Hakkas, around here, deep snow isn't an issue, especially with a proper, high clearance vehicle, what is a problem is ice. The amount of times I've been able to avoid some chucklehead on all seasons losing control, they've paid for themselves twice over.

[PJungnitsch]

Yeah, slimy wet snow is not generally a problem here, but freezing rain is. Half surprised we have not gotten any yet

[tortoise]

Yeah, all of my snow tires have been great on packed cold snow.  Slush and heavy snow are different beast altogether.  I had a set of performance winters once and they were not great in those conditions, but decent in the cold.

[ggweci]

We will be getting new winter tires this month, and it will be either the Hakka R3 or X-Ice Snow. 

Both highly rated, and I’ve had prior versions of both with great experiences, so I don’t think you can go wrong with either. 

For the sizing I’m looking at, pricing is about 10% less for the X-Ice due to the $70 rebate (no rebate on the Hakkas, that I’m aware of).