Just sold my old studded and great nokian wintertires which were not in use any more during last winter. Now trying to go with only one set of tires on my JK, just like previous season went with D90.
Keeping a light foot on pedal during icy sections was not a problem then so same trick will take me through this winter also. If conditions are too bad for driving i will leave JK to home.
I believe most important factor is how we drive it and not so much what kind of tires are used. When conditions get worse i just ease off a bit and take some more time for a trip as i prefer more to have a chance to go offroading any time i want any day what ever is the weather. At snow, over frozen land.
But, this is just me. Donīt take this as an advice. Just a bad habit i can do with.

 

I have Super Swamper Trxus M/t, and I know a few more people with them and we all love them in the snow.

 

...I live at a ski area...snow from halloween till april...the Nokias are great, they come is most sizes and are made in Findland and were the best non stud ice tire I have had and they are inexpensive !!! I now have the 18 dualers and they are ok...

 

How are the stock rubi Tires in the snow? Throw a sand bag or 2 in the rear...They should handle well, no?

 

There are only two things that are good on ice... ice skates and zamboni's. Even a zamboni only goes 5mph.

 

Another Jeep owner from MOntreal here. I've been also wondering what to do with my Rubicon in the winter. I want to get the inner nnobs on the mud tires siped, but nobody does this in Montreal. I don't wanna buy new winter tires either cuz I wanna spend that money on some 35"s when spring rolla around...

What to do what to do?

 

Buy a 'heated knife' on ebay and sipe them yourself.

I just got a set of Toyo M55s from the US and this is what I'll be doing tonight, before mounting and studding them next week.

The nice part of the M55s is that I can still go off-roading whenever I want. :-)

BTW, the M55s in the US are pinned for studs, the Canadian M55s are not. Although you can drill and stud the Canadian model, I couldn't find a garage that wanted to do it. Bunch of sissies. :-)

js.

 

BTW, in case anyone's interested, I had the M55s shipped to Freeport Forwarding, just the other side of the border on the 15 (87 in US). It's a short drive from Montreal and Freeport Forwarding only charges $2 per tire/box. I had to pay GST/QST on the total (tires and the shipping costs in the invoice), plus about $15-20 duty per tire (Toyos are made in Japan and are not subject to free-trade agreements).

js.

 

I'll second the trxus m/ts as being great. ran them on a tj for 45,000 miles, and loved them. just switched to bfg a/ts to go 33x10.5, and they seem to do ok, but haven't had enough heavy stuff to really compare.