which tyre for snow AT2 / MT

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which tyre for snow AT2 / MT by country_Est on Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:21 pm
Hi,

Question to the pannel,

I currently have a set of AT2's on my frontera for road, and a set of Maxxis MT's in the garrage for playing.

Which would be best for the snow. AT2s or mTs

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Re: which tyre for snow AT2 / MT by bigdazz on Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:30 pm
i would say the at2
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Re: which tyre for snow AT2 / MT by Rifleman on Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:33 pm
ATs on mine are coping with the snow beautifully.
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Re: which tyre for snow AT2 / MT by Road Hog on Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:01 pm
Yep,AT`s as they are less prone to digging & having recently seen Grabber AT2`s on fresh & compacted snow their performance would be hard to better :wink:
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Re: which tyre for snow AT2 / MT by woodwizzard on Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:19 pm
Maxxis mudders for me. Just done 60 miles for 4x4 response and was in 4wd all the time. Took the swb specialy because it has the mudders on and felt so much safer than when driving with ATs. If just sloppy slush then ATs are ok. As for digging in, thats fine when you want to find the road beneath. Try them both in deep snow and go with what feels safest to you.
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Re: which tyre for snow AT2 / MT by Drift on Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:31 pm
On my old Sport the AT's coped better in the snow than my MT's do now and they where just remould Colway AT's .
They gripped the snow great where as recently my MT's dug down through the snow but didnt gain any traction no matter what I did.
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Re: which tyre for snow AT2 / MT by alex on Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:54 pm
Maybe just pilot error Drifty :lol:

Ive always found AT's very good, maybe better in all but deep mud.
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Re: which tyre for snow AT2 / MT by Drift on Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:58 pm
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Re: which tyre for snow AT2 / MT by Alfie on Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:56 pm
My Ats were magic today in the snow.
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Re: which tyre for snow AT2 / MT by yaki on Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:26 pm
Was out from 3am this morning with 4x4 Response in Forest of Dean, my Cooper Discoverer MT's worked very well in the snow which was over 10" in places

Went up a mates farm on Sat, his DIsco was struggling on AT's where I had no problems

But the usual recommendation is to use AT's in the snow as they don't dig in as much as a MT tyre
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