F150 FX4 Tires

[ManhattanMike]

I recently bought a F150 FX4 with 20" rims and the Pirelli Scorpion tires. I found out today when picking up the sleds that these tires suck in snow. Anyone with the same truck have any recommendations on what I should replace these with?

 

[cat hunter]

I recently bought a F150 FX4 with 20" rims and the Pirelli Scorpion tires. I found out today when picking up the sleds that these tires suck in snow. Anyone with the same truck have any recommendations on what I should replace these with?

I sell and install lots of winter tires and what I would recommend is get a set of 17" winter rims and a set of Cooper Discoverer M+S or Firestone Winterforce for a good cheap combo.

 

[RIGIDONE]

I run Hankook Dynapro ATM rf-10 on my ram, 305/50-r20. 60k warranty tire, great wear, great traction, minimal road noise.. Awesome tire..

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[Sasquatch]

Yep take the 20 off buy cheapo steel rims 17 inch and put on damn near any winter or all terrain tire. I have Bridgstone dualers on my GMC from factory and really liked them will replace with those or maybe BF Goodrich All terain TA's. Buddy has them and they work well all year round but I run all four seasons. If I where you looking back I would have bought a set of rims when my truck was new and put a good set of winter tires on it. Now my rims have seen 5 winters and tires are worn so I'm just going to replace my tires rather then buy another set of rims and two sets of tires.

 

[ManhattanMike]

Thanks for the replies, I'm going to shop around this week and see what I can come up with.

 

[snobill]

X2 on the duelers love them !

 

[scott32]

I had the same truck and tire combo. I found some cheap 18" stock ford aluminum rims and put 265/60?/18 Toyo GO2 M+S 114T 's on for winter driving. Toyo makes some nice winter tires. If you want cheap tires, run cheap in the summer, don't mess around with cheap in the winter.JMO

 

[Sasquatch]

One thing you never stated clearly and no one has asked. What is it you want the tires for. Ice or snow or both? A winter ice tire is much different then say a winter snow tire. IE if you live down a road say that gets plowed last and you travel off pavement on winter roads that may be deeply snowcovered you want a tire that will chew threw snow but if you travel only on pavement you want a tire made more for ice. If you do both you want a tire in between.

Anyway if you go with the rims and new tires a softer winter tire your going to take off for the summer is best. There are many winter rated bigger lug tires out there! Or ice tires including studable. Just remember to get them off before it gets warm as you'll wear them out in no time once it warms up. Buddy runs studded tires on his 4x4 and his biggest fear now is not being able to stop and hitting someone, its getting hit because he can stop on ice like its the middle of summer and most can't.

When we had freezing rain I went for a ride and my 4x4 was spinning and growling the antilock brakes all over. Caution was the buzz word but I could get around in 4x4 with little trouble. Went for a ride in his truck with studs and it was amazing what studs will do! Unless you pushed them you thought that there was no ice at all.

 

[kinger]

Replaced my Pirellis on my Ford with Bridgstone Duelers and wow what a difference. Quiet, no tramlineing, and can actually drive in 2wd (in AWD its like a snowmobile) in the snow if I had to. Plus probably a 70K mile tire.

 

[ManhattanMike]

One thing you never stated clearly and no one has asked. What is it you want the tires for. Ice or snow or both? A winter ice tire is much different then say a winter snow tire. IE if you live down a road say that gets plowed last and you travel off pavement on winter roads that may be deeply snowcovered you want a tire that will chew threw snow but if you travel only on pavement you want a tire made more for ice. If you do both you want a tire in between.

Anyway if you go with the rims and new tires a softer winter tire your going to take off for the summer is best. There are many winter rated bigger lug tires out there! Or ice tires including studable. Just remember to get them off before it gets warm as you'll wear them out in no time once it warms up. Buddy runs studded tires on his 4x4 and his biggest fear now is not being able to stop and hitting someone, its getting hit because he can stop on ice like its the middle of summer and most can't.

When we had freezing rain I went for a ride and my 4x4 was spinning and growling the antilock brakes all over. Caution was the buzz word but I could get around in 4x4 with little trouble. Went for a ride in his truck with studs and it was amazing what studs will do! Unless you pushed them you thought that there was no ice at all.

Im going to need a tire that does well in both ice and snow.

Was looking at the Goodyear wrangler duratrac and from what I've read on them they should do everything I want it to.

I was in about 5 inches of lake effect powder on unplowed backroads Sunday with the Pirelli's and couldn't stop or turn well at all. This is the first 4x4 vehicle I've ever bought that didn't have A/T tires on it. The FX4 is supposed to be the off-road F150 but certainly not with Pirelli scorpion tires.

 

[kinger]

With a 4wd truck I don't think you need snow or ice specific tires for normal over road driving. The duelers are all season, and work excellent in snow and ice in 4wd. I normally don't get that excited about tires but these work so much better then the pirelle junk its uncanny.

 

[Sasquatch]

With a 4wd truck I don't think you need snow or ice specific tires for normal over road driving. The duelers are all season, and work excellent in snow and ice in 4wd. I normally don't get that excited about tires but these work so much better then the pirelle junk its uncanny.

Yes I really like my Bridgstone duelers!

 

[Rich Kay]

I sell and install lots of winter tires and what I would recommend is get a set of 17" winter rims and a set of Cooper Discoverer M+S or Firestone Winterforce for a good cheap combo.

I have a set of cooper M+S Winterforce on my 150 and love em! Buy a set of steel rims like I did and have a nice "winter" set-up.

 

[guardrail]

I have a spare set of rims and run blizzaks. They're awesome. The only bad thing is the largest size you can get is 285 70 17.
I have a tuner on my truck, so I can adjust out the speedometer error. It's about 5mph off. Without the adjustment