studded tires for truck?

[Mudman]

Thats right!  If more people knew how good duratracs are they would be running them instead of that garbage and expensive toyos!  No comparison.  Alot cheaper too!

[Jingles]

I have to agree with Shoot - em - dead studs and chains are for women only. Also being from Michigan you learned to drive on Ice by going and driving on a frozen lake in the winter and that was without 4 wheel drive.. Good tires on a 4x4 and a knowledge of how to control your vehicle should be all your need. Get out on a frozen lake and learn out to start stop and control the vehicle in slides.....

[romaknows]

I have to agree with Shoot - em - dead studs and chains are for women only. Also being from Michigan you learned to drive on Ice by going and driving on a frozen lake in the winter and that was without 4 wheel drive.. Good tires on a 4x4 and a knowledge of how to control your vehicle should be all your need. Get out on a frozen lake and learn out to start stop and control the vehicle in slides.....

I can guarantee you wont be going UP any STEEP  roads that have been iced over without chains , if you think you can you are probably one of those guys that gets stuck on a skinny road and screws everyone else that comes prepared ( seen it many times ).

[runamuk]

I have to agree with Shoot - em - dead studs and chains are for women only. Also being from Michigan you learned to drive on Ice by going and driving on a frozen lake in the winter and that was without 4 wheel drive.. Good tires on a 4x4 and a knowledge of how to control your vehicle should be all your need. Get out on a frozen lake and learn out to start stop and control the vehicle in slides.....

I can guarantee you wont be going UP any STEEP  roads that have been iced over without chains , if you think you can you are probably one of those guys that gets stuck on a skinny road and screws everyone else that comes prepared ( seen it many times ).

its our hills that throw a big ol wrench in the whole driving on slick roads thing.....all the ability to know what to do and the comfort with doing it goes out the window when going up a hill and the guy in front of you starts sliding backwards.....

I just avoid driving in the crap anymore I used to enjoy it even when I was going sideways now the people on the road with me scare crap out of me in normal conditions....

[ICEMAN]

I love studded tires for glazed over roads. I believe they are a great improvement in traction.

I miss the old walnut shell tires, they sure seemed to work nice...

[Mudman]

We all know chains are best but a pain in rear.  Michigan is pretty flat country-lil different then here.  Problem is every situation is different but a good snow stud tire is good solution for general use.  Plus you can still chain em up. Once you start sliding on a hill its mostly game over no matter how good you think you can drive.  You stop when the vehicle wants to!   :chuckle:Duratrac is good in snow, good in rain, good in mud and dirt,and quiet on road.  It doesnt run 60000miles.  I paid 1050 for them at discount tire 285 16s f350 10ply.

[high country]

Michigan, Minnesota....etc, they have different ice than we do. At work in Alaska we don't use studs or chains, we don't need them. Our temps stay subzero and it causes our snow to have pretty good traction.....now when it warms up to 20 above or so, the ice gets pretty slick. Around our country in the northwest we don't get the super cold near as often as the freeze/thaw cycle and that makes for slick roads.....and that is where studs shine.

If you are pushing a corner so hard you wash the rig out on wet pavement, studs and chains are not gonna help you, you need air bags and a lobotomy. It's winter, you have to drive like it.

[Mudman]

 

[thinkingman]

Real men don't use studs.


Sorry, I couldn't resist. But I also grew up in Michigan and studs and chains are illegal and we drove everywhere. I can see how they would benefit on black ice though. I never had studs and get through just fine. I tried cables on a two wheel drive ranger but they broke and tore off my brake lines so I gave up on that system.

I've lived in snow country and never once wished I had studs.
Proper tires and some skill is what you need.
Avoid wide tires.
Michelin LTX MS2 in a size more narrow than stock will get you anywhere studs will.
Studs just tear up pavement.
They should be illegal.

[elkinrutdrivemenuts]

And studs do not help on black ice. They only help on ice thick enough for them to dig into. 

[ICEMAN]

Wouldn't tearing up pavement" be considered "traction" to some degree?  They obviously help on all levels of icing.

[KFhunter]

studs on small front wheel drive cars - yes
studs on 3/4 ton diesels - no


tried that once on my Dodge diesel, studs didn't hold up at all. 

Run skinny tall tires and sipe them + get some chains that fit and learn how to drive

that is all

[Mudman]

studs on small front wheel drive cars - yes
studs on 3/4 ton diesels - no


tried that once on my Dodge diesel, studs didn't hold up at all. 

Run skinny tall tires and sipe them + get some chains that fit and learn how to drive

that is all

Duratracs!

[elkinrutdrivemenuts]

Wouldn't tearing up pavement" be considered "traction" to some degree?  They obviously help on all levels of icing.

No, what has more friction against pavement, metal or rubber?  We used to throw studs on our little trucks in high school so we could roast our tires easier and leave some nice grooves in the school parking lot.  Yeah we were cool ; )
I don't think there is anything that will really help on black ice besides always expecting it and knowing how to keep your vehicle in control if you start fish tailing.  I hate the stuff.  I'd rather have a foot of snow than black ice.

[cohoho]

After living in AK for ten years around Anchorage, yes Studs are great for those freeze thaw times and early season black ice.  Ran them for years on a separate sets of rims and Cooper tires for winter versus my summer tires.  The roads normally had intermittent ice from late fall to spring and you still had to get to point a to b without the hassle of chains at anything over 25mph.....  Many a days the weather would thaw and then freeze by evening and all roads in and out of Anchorage would be impassible without studs and/or chains...  Here on the Wet Side - Washington I think they are useless for the three or four days a year of "What is considered bad roads days".