Tires Falken or DUNLOP

I would get the Falken Wildpeak AT4W or AT3W if you can still find them. I've driven through 1.5 ft no problem

If you need to remain budget conscious, I would recommend Nexen or Falken. The Nexen Winguard Sport 2 or Falken Winterpeak would be a good budget winter tire.

Nice set up! I have had mine on for 100k miles they’re definitely the best tires I have ever bought. Just bought my second pair and hoping to get another 100k.

I have a pair of A/T3s on my Crosstrek and love them. Falken makes a dang good tire.

I put some Falken Ziex A/S on, no complaints.  Was about $850 installed.  Rides great, handles great

I got the wildpeak a/t trail on my hybrid...loved it, went on a snow drive to Tahoe and it's lovely

I've got the AT3W on my 4R with about 30k miles on them and I love them. They 275s in a C-load so they're HEAVY, but they're wearing great.

A few weeks ago, on my brand new 2023 base model I swapped out my stock Dunlops for the Continental DWS06 Plus A/S tires and have been miserable since. Yes the Continentals did their job on a recent ski trip where the roads were a mix of ice, wet and snow, but on dry roads I feel like the car handling has diminished significantly (sidewall flex) and just don’t enjoy driving it in a spirited way now. The Dunlops are a bit of a harsher ride and nosier but I’ll take that anyway over these Continentals in conditions without ice or snow.

40k is a pretty good run for the OE Falkens. I recently replaced the same OE tires on my Crosstrek at 24k. They had been already performing poorly in the wet for a while.

Those oem tires are some of the worst I've seen, pretty much anything would be an upgrade.