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Old 11-10-2018, 12:14 AM   #22
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You've sort of answered your own question. You're going to drive the truck when it's really bad, so why get the full soft low speed rated snows? I say go for the dunlop winter sport or the michelin (alpin instead of xice for your purposes) or the sottozero or perhaps the blizzak Lm, the softest of the bunch. At least H-speed rated.

Also, I'm less and less a fan of going very narrow. I feel like the 5er would do better if I had 245's instead of 225's on that 4000lb car. I had the s4 on 245 snows. Don't go narrower than 235 if you can avoid it. I'm going to run the Macan on stock width 235/265. We run the GTI in stock width 225 (just 17" instead of 18") and it does great at 3100lbs.
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