We use Wrangler Duratrac E's on our work tahoes. Things are awesome in all conditions including deep snow. Nobody has ever gotten stuck with them. Sometimes we have to drive alot faster than a guy should on bad roads and they handle great. This is on everything from dirt tracks to blacktop.

 

Do they last ? how many miles you getting out of them ? they look great and are reasonably priced.......some of the tirerack reviews say they are not so good on heavy vehicles ??.....I like them but am afraid to pull the trigger

 

Yeah, those Goodyear's win for looks. I couldn't really find any positive reviews on them though.(for our size vehicle) Seems like they aren't good for heavy vehicles and don't last long.

 

My truck has wrangler RT/S on it now. They look like they will do ok but I will find out this winter!

The studless tires will surprise the **** out of you in snow, even deep snow. My brother has a 2500 ram with a lift and BFG all terrains, which are pretty good snow tires (much much better than the mud terrains, which a friend had and took them off for the stock tires after seeing how they did in the first snow). He got hung up on a 3' deep snow drift behind my grandmas garage. I had a pathfinder with open diffs front and rear and the aforementioned firestone winterforce tires, no studs. I blasted straight through the drift he got hung up on, kept going, went down a hill, pushing snow with the bumper, turned around, and came back up the hill, stopping on the road with a pile of snow in front of me, all packed around the radiator and etc. His friend came over and asked me what the tires were... he couldn't believe my ****ty pathfinder with open diffs could outperform a lifted truck with all terrains in deep drifts like that.

Hell, back in highschool my ford escort would go up a snowy hill further than 3 of my classmates 4wd trucks. I had snowtires (snowtrekkers, which I now consider to be bottom of the bin snow tires) and they didn't.. I followed their tracks up to where they got hung up, went up to the top of the hill, did a 3 point turn, then came back down. They thought it was hilarious.

 

heads up on the wrangler RTS...they are down right SCARY on anything somewhat slick. we had 2 explorers with them on and if you had to run them at all in the ice/snow you were wishing you stayed at home. forget stopping forget turning!


i'm thinking about getting the duratrac's for my plow truck. since i only want to run one set of tires on it and i need something that will work in mud in the summer yet be a good winter tire for plowing. still debating it since i have some mastercraft courser snow tires on it now that will get me through the season.

 

I am currently Running a set of Michelin's on my EX- I have over 100,000 miles on them- I spent the extra $40 or so to get the 12 ply highest heat and treadwear rated ones- They are going on 5 years now this month-- All season and have had em from Florida to NYC. Have towed my dozer on on my trailer with them and all of my other toys. They are just now starting to make me consider another set-- but the extra $40 a tire was well worth it. My next set will be the 16" Michelins again.

 

Everyone got pretty much 35-40k miles outta them. I'm sure we could have gotten more if needed. I've only seen them used on Tahoes which I wouldn't consider a heavy vehicle