without using google

you have my permission to blow it up and print it out.. you can hold you arm out, holding the paper and make it look like it's going through whatever hole you want LOL

Haha, very nice!I might, but alas its not the same.

With winter weather about alot of us now, A tire tech question........
Does a properly inflated tire, or an underinflated tire work better in the snow????

im gonna say properly inflated.

properly inflated cause you want your footprint to be as skinny as possible to carve into the snow rather then ride ontop of it.. riding on top will cause dangerous situations when going to turn or stop.. ask me how i know.. lol

thats the reasoning behind my answer joe. I was thinking of dual rear wheels as an example lol

well, if you think of how a tire wears when underinflated then it will answer........ if a tire is underinflated, you only have the outside of the tire contacting the ground..... a properly inflated tire gives you the maximum tread surface on the ground that will give you the most traction you can get....... Without chains that is.

But yeah, John boggs, a dual wheel really sucks..... but the super singles really got to sliding in the snow.... WAY too much tread surface, unless it is the high traction ones you can get......... Ask me how a 120 foot drop looks from the inside of a international fuel truck sliding down hill towards it is........

how does it look?

Does the words ANAL PUCKERING mean anything????

bet ya had a helluva butt groove in that seat when ya got out of it. Had a killer grip on it eh? lol

white cheek grip for sure......

WOW that made me laugh so hard I started choking!!!

here's a good tire/snow question.. what's the best (light duty) truck tire to have in the snow?

007jimmy wrote:

ask me how i know.. lol

i don't even have to ask and i already know.. and no, you never told me either lol

79_bronco wrote:

here's a good tire/snow question.. what's the best (light duty) truck tire to have in the snow?

Michelin LTX M/S are the best none studded snow tires, bar none!

That more of an opinion question because I swear by the Pacemark Snowtrakker!! I've seen LTX's spin on wet leaves!!!

both wrong.. and what tire doesn't spin on wet leaves? lol the super swamper iroks are proven to be 1 of the best tires in the snow.. their tread pattern is supposedly superior to snow tires, boggers and tsl's because they keep the snow from packing in

dang i was hoping it would be wrangler R/Ts

I got stuck today with michelin LTX m/s....... they work great until in heavy deep powdery snow.......... I would rather have the Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs..... they are new to the market, but I have had no problems with them in the 2 feet+ of powder snow we have laying here.... Its the first tire I found that I havent had to chain up to get to the top of the mine..... It all depends on conditions.... what is the base under the snow, what kind of snow, how much snow........ And the answer to that question is more of a opinion than proven thing.....

yeah we all are from around the US so what works good in michigan might now work that good in jersey. we got alot of wet packy snow not the fluffy powder that michigan gets.. granted it may snow half a dozen times a year here so when im choosing a tire winter isnt on my mind.. however my dakota m/ts arent bad in the snow at all for around here.. last year i pulled quite a few people out of the ditch even when i was on straight ice.. i just had to have them pumped up to 45 psi.. lol.

79_bronco wrote:

and what tire doesn't spin on wet leaves? lol

Exactly!

79_bronco wrote:

the super swamper iroks are proven to be 1 of the best tires in the snow.. their tread pattern is supposedly superior to snow tires, boggers and tsl's because they keep the snow from packing in

Says who? Like batty said what is considered the 'best' is largely opinion.

opinion on this matter is not 100%, but i read it somewhere before.. i think it was a 4x4 mag or something that i was reading while i was on the porcelin(sp?) goddess.. OK OK, i was just looking at pictures, i can't read

Well we already knew that! lol However in the interest of the conversation the worst tires I've ever seen in the snow besides Zrated street tires are the Pro Comp Xterrains the have an extremely large lug pattern and the voids are not big at all so the lugs just slide and the voids pack up just like thornbirds in the mud! They packs up become slicks and next thing you know you doing circles on the road and stuck on the trail!

Im afraid, that if it did come from a 4x4 mag, it still is a matter that can be debated.... It all comes down to what size of vehicle, how much power you have under the hood, the size, and then what kind of snow, wet and heavy, light and powdery, and also what the footing underneith is.......... 4x4 mags do their tests, and release their findings, but as a general rule(tire companies included) they test their tires in the conditions that are closest to them, and then rate them from a few tests in one or two different conditions........ they cannot, or do not have time or means to test a vehicle in every winter condition that is available..... unfortunatly......... Goodyear sold me a tire called a G971.... its in the commercial tire division, its supposed to be an awesome winter tire, as well as very rock resistant.......I run them on all the pit vehicles.... I get maybe 4 months a tire out of them...... I switched and went to a cheap Dunlop Mt, and it has lasted 6 months already, and still has 8/32 tread on the test vehicle....... the best tire for any application, varies on what conditions, and who the driver is....