You can not have your cake and eat it too with tires. If it does not have wide lugs then it will load up. The Bridgestones are very close to the BFG AT's but the BFG M/T is a better mud and snow tire. You will not find any brand tire that is a mud/snow that will wear as well as any A/T. Again, do not expect a big improvement when going from the Bridgestones to the BFG AT. For really deep snow buy a pair or set of 4 chains- you will not believe the power of chains!!!!!!

 

What I want is something that self cleans a little better and has good street manners. The last truck I had was a Super Duty diesel and I put MTs on it. They lasted about 30K but that might have been partially fromt the heavy diesel engine sitting on the front and no weight in the back causing some slipping in wet weather. It went everywhere I wanted to go, but once it got icy on the street, I may as well have been driving on marbles. I would like something in between. Living in the PNW, mud is a factor even in the summer, and the rain that causes that mud makes street driving dangerous with full mudders. With these types of extreme driving conditions, I need an aggressive all terrain. The question is, which is the best buy?

 

You might think about getting the BFG MTs "siped". This greatly improves the wet and ice traction of a tire.

 

I use my h3 for the snow all the time, I go snowboarding about 4 times a month, went up the mountain once with the bridgestones that came with the h3, felt a little slipping with about 3 inch snow on 4x4 high, got the bf goodrich all terrain t/a ko, big improvment, this is the only all terrain tire that meets the severe snow service requirements, so for snow, in my opinion, this is the best tire, outside of snow specific tire, my friends also have these tires on their trucks and go to the sand dunes, they say it works great in the sand also, so just that I share that with you guys.

 

I also had the BFG TA's and did not notice any real difference between them and the Bridgestones. I did notice the difference when I got the BFG MT's.

 

BFG all terrain t/a KO's you can't say more and the look----killer see mine on cardomain! user name is the same!

 

Whoa... did you just call your Hummer a car???
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i just want to say the tires surely make the car! my h3 was
the showroom car. it the lux package with 18's and BFG a/t ko's 285-65-18. they are so different
i just liked them before but after driven with the bridgestone i lovem! i feel like my wife will
be much safer and have better control of the hummer when and if it calls.

 

Here is the tire I decided to go with. It is the Les Schwab tire I had mentioned earlier. On my first outing with them yesterday, I did a lot better then I did with the stock tires on a lot of the trails I went on, and even got bold enough to try trails that I wouldn't have otherwise. They are a little noisier on the street, but not so my girlfiend noticed, until I pointed out I have new tires, and they make noise. Off road, I am happy with them so far. I found some snow, but with tempretures in the 40's the snow is melting and turning to ice under any wieght. It sticks to everything and packs up into an ice rock, and I dont think chains woould help much there.

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I run the tire you complain about and have found it to be very stable even at high speed . I wonder if the H3 you were using simply didnt have a bad set on it for some reason !

The BFG KO i run on a Dodge dually with very good service , They do excellent in the snow , they are a tighter pattern , in the snow that is an advantage . The more edges on the tire the better in snow or ice .

 

Unless you have good floatation on snow eventually you will be dragging your axles and front skidplate in the snow. This is where it was packing up into ice. With the stock tires, they would plug up with ice and now you have no traction. With the new tires, they self cleaned, but in the process dug in deeper which adds to the problem with ice build up under the vehicle. When it was colder, and the snow stayed snow, I had an easier time with the stock tires, but still they were lacking in mud. Since mud is the primary terrain around here, having something with wider spaced lugs and better self cleaning is better over all.