Best all around - all terrain / winter / road tyre?

[sidekickdmr]

Morning,

My Mrs has just got a new 4x4, It's only a Kuga 4x4, but due to where we live we need it to actually be able to handle mud snow and ice.

So I'm after a decent "all rounder" tyre that we can leave on permanently.

BF Goodrich do something called a urban terrain which is a road tyre but with 10% off road bias and its a all season snow rated tyre, seems a good compromise.

http://www.bfgoodrich.co.uk/gb/ranges/4x4-Range/BF...

However perhaps a 90/10 split is a little low, a 70/30 split would probably be better, but the next step up seems to be a proper all terrain 50/50 split, is there anything in the middle?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

[KevinCamaroSS]

If being used only on-road, with occasional snow and light mud to cope with I would perhaps think about road biased more than off-road.

However, if used off-road for a significant amount then yes, go for more off-road biased tyres. If you only want one set then look for all-season. We have Goodyear Vector 4season on my wife's Renegade. These cope with muddy conditions, yet to try them in snow. The 4 season tyres will give you the best compound, winters have more silica content, not so good in the summer, summers (3 season) have too little silica content, relatively hopeless in winter.

[BugLebowski]

I've has great results with these Hankook tyres. They are an all terrain but not as aggressive as say the BFGoodrich all terrains.

They are excellent in snow thanks to the siping, and they are decent off road too. They'll obviously be a bit of a compromise compared to a normal road tyre.

[sidekickdmr]

Yes im after a all season tyre, road bias but with some off road and snow/ice capibility too.

Those Hankook Dynapro tyres look good, only come in 65 profile though, which would increase the size of my tyres by 10mm as they are 55's at the moment, would that be much of an issue?

[BugLebowski]

sidekickdmr said:

Yes im after a all season tyre, road bias but with some off road and snow/ice capibility too.

Those Hankook Dynapro tyres look good, only come in 65 profile though, which would increase the size of my tyres by 10mm as they are 55's at the moment, would that be much of an issue?

It depends really from car to car if there is enough room for a slightly larger tyre. It would throw your speedo off slightly but only by 3% or so. You would likely have to inform your insurance company too which is a bit of a pain. I've larger than stock tyres on my 4x4 but I've other modifications as well so I had to inform my insurance anyway. TBH I would try and find something decent in the OEM size, have a look at Camskill.co.uk

[sidekickdmr]

I think I am going to go for the urban terrain BFG's

Can't find anything else that isnt a full all terrain tyre.

Thanks

[300bhp/ton]

sidekickdmr said:

Morning,

My Mrs has just got a new 4x4, It's only a Kuga 4x4, but due to where we live we need it to actually be able to handle mud snow and ice.

So I'm after a decent "all rounder" tyre that we can leave on permanently.

BF Goodrich do something called a urban terrain which is a road tyre but with 10% off road bias and its a all season snow rated tyre, seems a good compromise.

http://www.bfgoodrich.co.uk/gb/ranges/4x4-Range/BF...

However perhaps a 90/10 split is a little low, a 70/30 split would probably be better, but the next step up seems to be a proper all terrain 50/50 split, is there anything in the middle?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

I'm not familiar with these, but tbh they look quite good. Doubt you'll go wrong with them.

My advice would have been, if you don't tear about on the road, to go for a proper winter tyre. The tread and sipes on a winter tyre will work the best in the snow, ice and work well in the rain. Plus give better performance on mud than a normal road tyre too. And if you aren't pushing hard in the corners in the dry, they'll likely be fine all year round. If you do drive them hard in the dry, then it just increases the wear rate more than anything.

But those BFG's you've listed, they actually have a lot of tread similarities with a winter tyre. So I say go for them.