Tires

[skikid787]

I am about to purchase a brand new discovery SE with the standard 18in wheels and tires, which I know are goodyears. When driving through vermont snow in a 2000 range rover HSE with the same tire/wheel size and BRAND NEW oem goodyear tires, the car was skidding all over the road. It was sliding more than the rear drive bmw it followed, which was running dedicated snow tires. Should I insist that the dealer put pirelli scorpions or michilin tires on the car in place of the stock goodyears if the car will be driven in snow? I want to keep with the stock wheel/tire package, and basically keep the car stock as it will hardly ever see any serious off road driving, except for getting up some steap, icy, snowy, slippary, muddy hills to a ski house and some trechorous back roads into a ski resort.

 

[discomike]

The Perelli is a OK tire but it wears out rapidlt do to the soft tire compound. I would suggest getting away from the tread design altogether and go look at the Bridgstones directional tire, they wear real well they perform well and love water and snow, I had a set.
Mike J.