Winter will be here in no time, and I live in ohio. We get a lot of snow, and where I live out in the country, it can be a problem driving around since the streets are never plowed.

I have an 89 Cherokee. Its a 2wd model, 4.0L I6. I'm pretty positive it has stock size all season tires. I'm not at home to check the size now (and I'm not sure what stock size is either).

I was looking for something that may perform a little better though ? The tires are pretty skinny compared to other jeeps I see. I'm not sure how good they will be in the snow though.

 

Shallow snow-Thinner tires, I use Simex Extreme Trekkers(35x9.5)

Deep snow-Wider tires, I use TSL's(35x15.5)

 

It varies so much. I drive from the country into the city everyday to get to school, and the snow can be somewhat deep by me, and just shallow and packed where im going.

 

Than I would go with a 10.5-12.5 wide AT tire with good siping and grooving. Or studded snows.

 

Where do you buy your tires from ?

 

Grab a set of General Grabber AT2's and a stud gun. THe generals have the same thread pattern as the BFG but are slightly softer compound with lots of sipping and pre drilled for snow studs.

 

Tire Rack or Discount Tires.

This is good advice.

 

you want the tire to have as much sipping on the thread blocks as possible. The reason being, every tire will pack up with snow but if you have say a mud terrain tire with no sipping then you still are putting rubber to snow/ice. the sipping in the tire holds the snow in the tread blocks, snow grips ice better than rubber grips ice.

 

If you want a dedicated snow tire, get Firestone Winterforce tires. Tons of siping, lots of tread blocks, soft compound and sticky as hell. My friend runs them on his 2wd long bed truck wich sits ~6" off the ground (saggy springs) and runs around all winter with no weight in the back and no problems.
Theyre like 80 a tire which is pretty cheap, If I had the money I would buy a set.

 

Blizzaks.

 

all very good tires and choices I run the Blizzaks on my wifes jeep for the winter and yes its 4 wd but my wife and kids are in the xj peice of mind if you want to call it that,xj is capable just as a 4wd and I think it s 2 times better with the snow tires.

 

Last year I put some cheap Goodyear Wrangler Radials (235/75r15) on my XJ. This last winter we had more snow than we have seen in over a decade.. twice it snowed 12"+. This of course is probably nothing to you... however my tires did quite well. So far they have also done well in mud as I also live in the country on dirt roads..

At the time of the pictures below I only had the Goodyears on the back.

 

I run them on my girlfriends 06 Aero, she loves them in the winter.

Thats not snow lol, that was our get ready here it comes snow last winter. Than we got hit with about 10" more, than about a week later we had that 24" storm, and in january we got another 18". Little snows inbetween as well but who cares about those.

have a house in montana too, thats fun.

 

we actually dont get much snow... no lake effect for us, and it seems all the good storms go around us. In winter and summer.
I think last year the most we had in one night was 10".

Ive never talked to anyone with blizzaks, they look like the Winterforce just with closer tread blocks (not sure if thats a good or bad thing)

 

Blizzak DM-v1 are rated the best SUV/Light truck winter tire.