I have to say, for snow on a packed surface, I disagree completely. When I was up in Alaska, all the "highway" drivers had thinner tyres on to cut through the snow, it was only those heading well off the beaten track, where snow was too deep to drive through, and had to be driven over that went soft and wide.
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I have to say, for snow on a packed surface, I disagree completely. When I was up in Alaska, all the "highway" drivers had thinner tyres on to cut through the snow, it was only those heading well off the beaten track, where snow was too deep to drive through, and had to be driven over that went soft and wide.
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Ok carry on. No skin off my nose.
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I'll second this, we get a lot of snow here and winter tyres are compulsory from Oct to march standard practise is narrower tread higher profile to keep the diameter the same.
If you can have two sets of wheels rather than two sets of tyres then the standard is for the winter wheels to be steel rims and the summer alloys with the winter steels being a smaller size with the diameter made up with much taller and narrower rubber.
My disco is fantastic at getting going in the snow but then simply becomes a two tonne sledge if you need to slow for anything unexpected, diff lock is next to useless and rarely if at all gets applied in the snowy conditions and then only if you have left it parked up overnight and there has been substantial snowfall, meaning you need to climb out of the hole in the snow created by the shelter of the rest of the landy.
Wide tyres really wont help much, on fresh snow they might help spread the load but it if its fresh it doesnt have a great ability to carry weight anyway and will simply compact under the tyres, the narrower the better to cut down through and find something to try and grip against, the raised body on 4x4s makes it perfect for tall thin tyres.
