Do you experience any issues with adding siping? Like bad chunking? Have you only siped at's or have you tried mt's also?

Man, i swear that adding a bunch of sipes to mt's would have to work wonders for wintertime travel. Not only on the road, but even off road. I just wonder if i will start experiencing heavy chunking or any other issues. My plan is to go fairly heavy with the sipes on all center tread blocks (just not overly deep), and a bit less sipes on the outers along with not cutting fully through from side to side (i think that may help with chunking).

 

OP- I'll have new shocks relatively soon sand you're welcome to go for a spin with my E rated tires. They're not nearly as harsh as I was lead to believe they would be.

 

Didn't seem bad to me, very even and uniform, and plenty deep. They didn't cut the sides at all to keep them from chunking, just the middles. Seemed worth it for $8/tire.

Around 9k miles on the siped tire, maybe 200 on the new one.


Had Maxxis Bighorns before these, fairly aggressive mt tread. The Discount siping did help a bit on icy streets, but not a huge difference (more edges, but there just isn't as much tread block in contact with that type of tire). But again, it was worth $40 to get all five siped for that little bit extra traction.

 

Hey thanks for your input, much appreciated!

Yeah, Im not expecting a world of difference or snow tire like traction having the mt's siped. Just a little control on the hard pack is what I am after.

Yeah I agree, those sipes almost look factory like they are so straight and aligned. I think maybe it has something to do with the guy who is setting up and running the machine? A few pics I saw looked like it tore the tire up more than anything.

 

I've been running Cooper STT Pro tires for about a month now. I had Duratrac 315's and switched to STT Pro in 37". I'm really impressed with the STT's, quite, excellent in deep snow and the same if not better than the Duratracs on packed snow and ice. I live North of Lake Tahoe and we're getting much needed snow this year. The problem I found with the Duratrac was the 2 ply sidewall, I cut one in the rocks. The STT's have a much stronger 3 ply sidewall. And the price is not bad either.

 

yeah thats the only thing with the duratracs i've been seeing a little frequently, leaning more towards the STT since it'll probably be towards the end of winter time when i get my tires and mainly liked the duratracs for how much i've heard they're excellent in snow. I should be able to do the STT's with stock wheels right? i'm trying to spread my build out so im not living off mcdonalds value menu for weeks at a time

 

Stock wheels, STT's. It's a good combo and they ride well. I've had bad experiences with goodyears so I cannot recommend them unless someone is dead set on them.

These are 285/70-17 with the RK 2.5" stock mod.

 

nice, looks good

 

I'd seriously consider the STT Pros. I just switched from my 37/13.5/17 Toyo MTs to STT Pros and I'll never look back. I enjoyed the Toyos for about the 1st 10K miles and then started noticing that they weren't all cracked up to what they were supposed to be. I don't want to rant on, but if you're between Toyos and STT Pros, let me know and I'll elaborate between the two.

 

Regular STT tires got me from our area to DC in all of that snow without an issue. I played around in town in unplowed roads and helped folks get their cars unstuck (read- not pile driving the snowbanks in apartment complexes)