Tires MICHELIN or Cooper

We get snow here (and it’s a bit hilly) so I went with the Michelin CrossClimate 2’s. They’ve been great for two seasons so far. My only gripe is how light the steering feels, but the car is still a joy to drive.

Michelin Crossclimate tires. They’re a bit noisy on highway but can handle the ice storms of NTX…

Allround great tyre with an actual chance to work in snow etc.

i recently switched from bfg ko2 to cooper discoverer at3 and love them. only issue is they pickup alot of rocks. and i live on a dirt road so constantly picking them out. but they ride great great traction in the wet. do ok in mud snow etc. ive had on 3 vehicles one was a honda element. rode like it was on rails. my excursion same and when does slide very predictable even with lsd locking poweslides.

I’m also really enjoying the Cooper AT3s I just put on and I’m getting slightly better mpgs

We have a set on a Crosstrek and they're fantastic

We have them on our crossover and they're excellent all year in Anchorage weather. Many of the responses comparing them to all season tires are misguided. The "all weather" tire is a different type of tire from an "all season" and they perform relativley close to many dedicated snow tires. They are a true year round tire for Anchorage weather. Never had an issue going anywhere around the state in winter including up to the ski hills in all conditions, running up to Fairbanks, or down to the Kenai.

It does depend on what and how you drive as well if you have an awd vehicle and a reasonably decent driver you should be good to go? If it's only 2wd I might lean toward separate snow tires, but they're probably fine for a front wheel drive car as well. For awd - I'd go for the crossclimates. I'd buy again if I were buying for our CUV today. I might even put them on my truck if they were available in truck sizes. Unfortunately the truck size crossclimate only shares the name, but not much else.

Just for a comparison from actual testing data I found that was done on the same car, same day, same track for snow braking distance from 20mph to 5mph:

Summer tire 120.9 feet

All Season tire 44.8 feet

CrossClimate2 36.8 feet

Winter Tire 34.7 feet.

The Crossclimate is about 5% different from the winter tire like the Blizzak, 30% better than the all season, and about 3.5 times shorter braking distance than the summer tires. Acceleration tests were similar on snow.

My personal experience is similar that I'd guess they're about 90% of the way to a winter tire vs a summer tire. And you don't have to swap them twice a year.

Michelin x-ice are pretty nice. Used my last set for 5 or 6 seasons. Had been so long since i bought them. They did a little RND

I bought these for my Lexus replacing latitudes, went to Lexus got an alignment, put it on the road to Tennessee probably 4-500 ish miles one way. They were pretty grippy on the back roads, but highway driving was just to loud for me. So I took them back within the 1000 mile guarantee, when I got back from Tennessee and got a new set of latitudes. They are good tires for sure but they are also directional tires so that's where you get the bit of road noise. But they do have hella grip.

Don't bother going Michellin, all just big mame hype