GEN 2 Any one use Winter Tires?

[BendSprinter]

Your kidding right? Your wifes exploder would do better in the snow than a RAPTOR? REALLY?? I have driven my 2010 raptor in several feet of snow here in Colorado and have never felt more safe. Same way with my 17. Advise putting on duratracs and putting it in 4H. Then GO. I now have a exploder for a daily driver and no way in hell will it do as well as either of my raptors. period

I ski and snowmobile multiple times a week during the winter and it’s almost always an over confident idiot in a truck in a ditch. Traction is traction and the Raptor isn’t any better than any other vehicle in the snow going down the highway and hitting ice. Forget about ******** around in a field with feet of snow. I would bet you an obscene amount of money that a modern Explorer with proper snow tires would go, stop, and turn better than your truck with all terrains in normal plowed or ice conditions which is 90% of “winter” driving. It’s really not even a logical argument. My wife’s Highlander (the most benign of vehicles) kicked my Raptors butt in ice with hers being studded before my changeover into the Nokians. Unfortunately our driveway is pretty much an ice traction testing ground.

I have the Nokians on mine and the stopping, turning and acceleration is light years better. In deep “screw around” snow I have no idea if they are better or worse but thats not what typically has you sliding into on coming traffic at 60mph. I hate the way they look and hate the noise studs make but for safety it’s not even close.

I have a Raptor and love it to death but it doesn’t defy basic physics. Please don’t take this as confrontational as that is not the intent.

 

[Gdog]

I ski and snowmobile multiple times a week during the winter and it’s almost always an over confident idiot in a truck in a ditch. Traction is traction and the Raptor isn’t any better than any other vehicle in the snow going down the highway and hitting ice. Forget about ******** around in a field with feet of snow. I would bet you an obscene amount of money that a modern Explorer with proper snow tires would go, stop, and turn better than your truck with all terrains in normal plowed or ice conditions which is 90% of “winter” driving. It’s really not even a logical argument. My wife’s Highlander (the most benign of vehicles) kicked my Raptors butt in ice with hers being studded before my changeover into the Nokians. Unfortunately our driveway is pretty much an ice traction testing ground.

I have the Nokians on mine and the stopping, turning and acceleration is light years better. In deep “screw around” snow I have no idea if they are better or worse but thats not what typically has you sliding into on coming traffic at 60mph. I hate the way they look and hate the noise studs make but for safety it’s not even close.

I have a Raptor and love it to death but it doesn’t defy basic physics. Please don’t take this as confrontational as that is not the intent.

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I respect your opinion.all good here.
Where you at in Colorado?

 

[BendSprinter]

I respect your opinion.all good here.
Where you at in Colorado?

Bend, Oregon.

 

[Gdog]

Bend, Oregon.

well hell thought I might see you out ridin the pow here.

 

[PBR ME]

well hell thought I might see you out ridin the pow here.

I’ll be out there for a good part of January in my Roush Gen1...


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[Gdog]

I’ll be out there for a good part of January in my Roush Gen1...


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You driving you 19 out here?

 

[PBR ME]

You driving you 19 out here?

Unfortunately no, it won’t arrive until Feb.
So I just did a ton of maintenance on my Roush 13 that I wouldn’t have done if trading it in, and I’m gonna take it one more time!


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[Gdog]

Unfortunately no, it won’t arrive until Feb.
So I just did a ton of maintenance on my Roush 13 that I wouldn’t have done if trading it in, and I’m gonna take it one more time!


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Know the feeling well had to do the same thing on my 2010 raptor because the 17's sat forever in Dearborn. Sorry for the high jack of this thread

 

[Alpesh]

Hello all, I have a 2019 that should be here in 2 weeks. I have always put winter tires on all my vehicles. I have never run all-terrains in the winter, I hear they are pretty good. I do a lot of driving in the winter and love the feeling of winter tires. Does any have winter tires on their truck currently? If so, what size rim are you running and what tire?

I recently bought 2019 raptor with very low km. I heard don't need winter tires in raptor. I will have to check back with dealership. And please let me know so I can buy one for me.

 

[hkguns]

Your truck comes with winter tires. I've run my truck through 30" of fresh snow without an issue. No, it wasn't in a field, it was on a road.

I doubt you'll face worse than that in Grand Rapids. Well, I did have one issue, the snow was being plowed up over the windshield which made it difficult to see.