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When i first bought the Vred Wintrac Extremes for my Hilux i quickly realised just how poor the OE fitments were, stability, car like chuckability and cold wet grip that astounded, on the OE's the tail would out at the drop of a hat, having a LSD didn't help either.
Snow and ice grip was excellent, last winter i never used 4WD except to exercise the system, it went everywhere without murmer in RWD only.
I emailed Vredestein to ask if they would recommend running them all year round, they replied that it's not something they'd recommend but didn't really go into the why's.
I ended up with 2 sets of tyres, one summer one winter, the vehicle seldom left the road so offroad tyres were not a priority but wet road grip was.
After much research i ended up with General UHP directional tyres for the summer set, these proved very good and reasonably quiet, in the wet it didn't feel quite as planted as on Vred's, but no tail out antics.
Handy that Marlot notes the General AT2's are winter marked, i didn't know that.
It would be useful in tyre descriptions to easily discover things like that, they usually waffle lyrical with guff but fail to list the important stuff.
Edited by gordonbennet on 15/09/2011 at 12:27
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