Any of the high end tires from all of the major players, Micheline, Pirelli, Conti, Hakki, Blizzack, etc. will serve you well. I suggest you shop for the best price and grab them. You are already into prime time for snow tires and selection might already be reduced.

 

I’ve had the dm-v2 before. I think they’re just rated for higher weight vehicles that aren’t trucks like suvs and cross overs.

I’ve used the best and the not so best snow tires. I think you don’t need the tires with the best stats on the market unless your car kinda sucks on snow anyway. I used to shred while driving rear wheel drive sports cars with studded blizzaks but I’ll put just about anything rated for snow and ice on my Volvo.

 

I run Wildpeaks on my Rav and they do great.

 

Are they the a/t trails? If I recall there's a couple different models.

 

I ran blizzaks for the last 5 seasons and they did well PNW snow/slush. I wanted to try a more budget snow tire this season and settled on Nexen Winguard Winsport 2 due to them having overall pretty good reviews

 

Bridgestone Blizzak

 

I ran Nokian on my crosstrek.
I think this late into November you’ll be limited to what they still have in stock, unfortunately.
Don’t over analyze it. Listen to what Oldman said.

 

Personally I’ve loved my general arcticmax and am on my second set. They use an older Nokian mold. They’re great on snow and ice. But a bit squirmy in the dry/wet due to the blocky tread pattern. The other nice thing is that they are a true snow tire so don’t wear down to an all season. With that said my next set will be the new nokian happas when they add more sizes

 

No, the generals don't use an older Nokian mold. They use an older Gislaved mold.

The original Arctics were Nordfrost 3. The current Arctic-12's uses Nordfrost 100

 

Nokian Hakkas can’t be beat. I thought it was hyperbole bullshit until I got my first set, they are a game changer, especially in wet snow and slush, no other tire I’ve had even comes close in the wet snow/slush. On dry compact snow, they’re even with all the other best snow tires, no better, but no worse, it’s really that wet/slush where there is no comparable tire.

 

Hey all,

Looking for your experience and recommendations. Following up on the great input you guys had on your winter vehicles I test drove a ton of cars and settled on a '25 subaru outback onyx xt.

I chose this model for the beefier xmode and better engine but stopped short of the wilderness for various reasons.

Anyway, looking to grab dedicated winter tires for it. In the past I've had blizzak ws80/90s on another vehicle but it looks like they now have a model called Blizzak DM-V2 they recommend for the outback.

I've also heard good things about the Michelin x-ice snow.

I'll be driving it in the northeast so potentially tons of ice, snice, slush, and snow.

Thanks!

The DM-V2 is a rather old tire, around the time of being the equivalent of the WS-80. But the WS-80 got replaced by the WS-90, and the DM-V2 hasn't been replaced yet.

Nokian Hakkapeliitta R5 is a solid choice also and the Michelin Xice-Snow.

 

I'm partial to anything Nokian (ran the WRG3s and WRG4s for years on an Impreza, and they were really great for an all weather tire), and currently running Blizzaks, which have been very confidence inspiring in the mix of rain/slush/snow we see in the Tahoe drive up from the bay area. Don't get the hard freeze that often here, so can't speak to those really low temps.

 

I've ran the WRG3 (assymetric) on a FWD lowered Passat back when I lived in the northeast.

which is a different tire than the WRG3 SUV which was directional.

And there was an additional directional WR G3

 

Can't go wrong with Blizzaks.

 

Ive used blizzaks and x-ice, usually whichever one is cheaper and have never been dissapointed, most name brand winter tires are amazing these days, go for the best price

 

My 14' Subaru Forester XT + Hankook Winter iPike tires have gotten me through some nasty winters in Tahoe. I wouldn't hesitate to get another set of I could find them for cheap again.

 

I have used a number of different winter tires, including X-Ice, Hankook I-Pike, Blizzak and so on. I now run Toyo Observe on my Nissan Pathfinder, and Nokian Hakka studded on our Honda Pilot. Both of them are stellar tires. I won't run anything else now. So superior to anything else I have run.

 

In the lots of bad conditions with ice involved, I’d go with spiked tires for max safety. Unless there is some huge government fee for using them or something. You get by without spikes, but the times you need spikes, the spiked tires are way safer.

 

Michelin x-ice SNOW !
Nokian are also very good but lately they seems to focus more on ice performance than snow performance. Their older design/tread was better on snow than the current generation.

 

Wild peaks on the work Outback. I gotta drive all over CO throughout the winter and they are solid. Nokians are good but we were blasting through those at like 25k or something insane. Which on the work cars is far less than 2 years.

 

Wildpeaks A/Ts. 37k on them with tons of tread, do great in the snow. I got them on my bs Toyota Hybrid AWD and they charge.

 

How do you find them on ice? I have found A/Ts to be great in snow, but utter shit in icy/hardpacked conditions.

 

Thanks everyone. I was shopping around for the hakka r5s but came across a great deal on the michelin x-ice snow so I ended up grabbing a set of those.

 

Toyo Open countrys. They are legit.