Tires Firestone or OEM Subaru

I got about 5k miles on my Firestone X/Ts and love them. Live in northern New England and they crush the snow. Smooth on the highway minimal sound. Very light weight for an E load rating. Highly recommend

Winter tires are significantly superior to AWD. Should you question that.

I have Firestone indy500s on my GT,700 rwhp. Hard to beat the price

My 22 WRX was also good in the snow, there was times where people were getting stuck especially on hills and I would just cruise by with no issues. I had pilot sport all season 4 tires which are only meant for light snow and I had no issues.

Years ago I was door dashing, had a really nice set of snow tires on my legacy. That thing is a beast in the snow; one lady came to the door and apologized for not having shoveled. I handed her food over and said "no worries" and brapped my out of her driveway while she watched me essentially plow it with my bumper, easily walked thru 8+ inches of snow without missing a beat.

I put on Firestone destination at 2s in 235/65 r17. They are only 4lbs more than stock and perform great!

I see you already got some tires but for future reference the Firestone fire hawk indy500 is one of the best bang for buck tires out there. It’s been a couple years since I got mine but I think they were around $160 a tire and they WAY outperform the nitto nt555 that costs significantly more. I bought them as a cheap set of tires for the wet weather not expecting anything special and they surprised the hell out of me. I will recommend them to everyone that asks because they’re just that good (for a tire at that price range).

255 35 20 for Indy 500 also works, I’m using in 21m3p. Range takes a 5% hit.

1990s Ford Explorer were pretty solid except for the pesky factory installed Firestone tires that would blow out at speed.

Tires not lasting. Needed to replace them at 12k miles and I’m not super hard on the car