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Looking at tires for my farm pickup. Do any of you have any experience or comments about Pirelli Scorpion MT/R with Kevlar tires? They would be used for snow tires.

Thanks in advance for your comments and advice.

My 2001 Chevy Tracker had Pirelli Scorpion "all season" tire on it. They were horrible in snow and ice. I had no idea how bad they were until I replaced them with Bridgestone Blizzak WS80 "studless" snow-tires. I used to think it was the Tracker itself that was bad. NOPE. Night and day difference with the new Bridgestone tires. I am amazed at the difference. I had to always use 4WD to go up my driveway in the snow and now can get up in 2WD most of the time. To be honest- never in my life have I had such a difference between two types of tires. Either the Pirellis are real bad, or the Bridgestones are real good. Not sure which.

did snowplowing for 45 years and used only Firestone winter force snow tires super good in the winter but must take them off in spring because they do not wear well at all on dry roads ran 265-75-16 and got them for around 140 or less on line had three trucks with them on

While I have not had any yet I have heard several people really liked the blizzak. I used to work at a car dealership.

I used to have the Pirelli Scorpions on my 2013 Ford Edge. Road harsh and were noisy. For my truck I used the Hercules tires.

The Blizzak is about the Best snow or winter tire made. Wife drove an '88 Mustang GT for 9 northwestern Illinois and south central Wisconsin winters. It was absolutely terrible on snow, ice, or just wet roads. SON started driving it when he was 16. First winter he put a used set of Blizzaks on it he bought from some friends of ours. It actually got around as good on 3-4 inches of snow as my 4wd pickup. Deeper than that it ran out of ground clearance. Blizzaks are made from such soft rubber they should not be driven in hot weather. They wear really fast.

I put a pair of Firestone WinterForce tires on my work car, S40 Fwd Volvo, the winter we got over 100 inches of snow and I drove 120 miles round trip to work. Couple days I drove my truck, like the day we got 15-18 inches of snow. My car handled 4-5 inches of snow or slush great, deeper than that it ran out of ground clearance. I ran them all summer last summer, maybe 4000 miles, harder rubber than the Blizzak but the tread is identicle, gives up a little traction on ice and hard packed snow, but wears much longer than the Blizzzk, I have about 15,000 miles on them and less than half wore out. Great tire if you have to drive in ice and snow.

I've always put on Firestone TransForce on my trucks. I have not had any wear problems with them.

Cooper Weather-Master S/T2 Order them from TireBuyer

According to Brigstone sales rep, they developed Blizzaks in Sibera for the Russians winters. You can buy a Cooper knock off for quite a bit less money than Bstones. I run the coopers on the front of both vans and on the back of both 2x4 pickups.

I have Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac on my truck. They really dig in snow and off road, wear like iron too. Mine have about 70K on them and still have 5/32 on them.