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The tires that came with the purchase of my new jeep wrangler do poorly during winter once it gets -20 those tires become like plastic so slippery and not safe in my opinion.  
What kind of tires should I get for snow condition grips and ice condition with stops? Or am I asking for something impossible that has all....winter and summer conditions.  
Thank you

Tires that come as OEM on vehicles generally are all weather but fail in winter. Look for a set of winter tires, or if you want them all year long look for a mud snow tire.

Id go with K02's, i have them on my renegade and they are great tires. They are mud tires and winter rated and are excellent in mud and snow and good on ice. They are a heavy LT tire, but they are very good.  
 
Goodyear Wranglers are also a good tire and are popular on wranglers. The wrangler duratracs are a good tire.

Go to Kal Tire they are the best

which garage shop in Brandon has good prices to store your winter/and summer tires and with good service to do the switch on a scheduled appointment time

They will store your tires, $100 seems to me what I saw, but don't quote me. They are the best for swapping them out and for their service overall. Great guys to deal with...we get all our tires from them.

if I compare tires of the  
-T/A KO2 (all weather)  
-duratrac wrangler (all weather)  
-artic claw XSI (winter)  
 
all the above seem to perform close the same (in % testing) as for off-roading, wet/dry/snow/ice performance, hydroplane and rolling resistance, braking and cornering.  
 
I was thinking go winter tires but all-weather tires are just as good as winter tires so why people buy a winter set and a summer set if one all year set is just good. what am I missing to understand

For my truck I have a set that have the mountain peaks. Good all year. It makes no sense to switch out sets of tires. Maybe if I had a little focus or something but with an SUV, truck, etc. a good all season are just as good I have found.

I have a set of ko2s on my 1 ton truck. They seem to be very good tires. They are under the mpi financing plan too if I recall right. I put in a lot of research into tires and found these ones to be the best. Plus I'd call around for pricing. I saved over 600 on mine just from calling around

100% hands down without a doubt go with a set of Goodyear Duratracs. They've got the mountain and snowflake on them so they are an actual winter tire as well (the requirements to be a winter tire are surprisingly low actually) but are great on highway tires and really good off road tires as well. I've got a set of LT's on my F-150 that have 102,000km on them and still have maybe 20,000-30,000km of life left in them.  
 
I've had other all terrain tires before and none of them have stood up like the Duratracs have. And if you keep an eye out a lot of tire shops will have them on a 4 for 3 sale.

are the goodyear duratrac tires good for braking on ice, are those tires soft enough not to hardening on cold weather

KO2's and Duratracs and it really depends on what you want. I would honestly call the pro's and discuss what you want out of the tire! I called around on my last set and had 4 tires picked out (Nitto, KO2, Duratracs & one other I can't remember) and when I called KK Penners they were the only ones that asked me questions. As soon as they heard I would be towing a trailer they pointed me towards KO2 for the extra sidewall protection, warranty and overall durability. I didn't purchase them there, as I purchased them locally, but they were very helpful and I want to say the KO2's were less expensive then Duratracs.  
I ran Duratracs for years on my work trucks and never had a stitch of trouble with them. They lasted fairly decent, but we also abused the tires within the oilpatch. Lots of gravel/mud and handled nicely on the hwy. The guy at the tire shop did say they didn't have the same warranty and sidewall protection as the KO2, but they rode a lot nicer on the Hwy. then the KO2's.  
So I guess it really depends what you want at the end of the day. Both tires will be louder then normal tires. Duratracs are softer riding, KO2 you feel lots of the road. Price is typically not a whole lot different for a comparable "normal" tire (not a M/T). Fuel consumption goes up a noticeable amount with a more aggressive tire (anyone that tells you different is lying, my truck went from average 10-14lt/100km to 15-18lt/100km). The look of a M/T will make your jeep look great (if you are into pettiness, like I was).  
I have a new SUV and while a set of KO2 would really make it stand out from all the other white SUV's. on the road, I can not justify ruining my mileage with a set of M/T's and with only ever really driving down a few miles of gravel ever my Goodyear Silent Armour (or whatever they call them now) will last me upwards of 100,000kms and are good in snow, slush, rain, hot/freezing temps and in the amount of mud I will ever put it into. The company (400+ vehicles) I used to work for in the patch started running Silent Armour's and left the duratracs for added fuel mileage and life and I never got stuck in the mud with them, but also never went thru 3' of mud like back in the flood years with my duratracs. If I ever started abusing my SUV. it would be back to the KO2's hands down!!!

Duratracs are decent on ice. Keep in mind to get the winter tire designation a tire only has to perform 30% better than an all season.  
 
They likely aren’t as good on the ice as an actual winter tire. But when you consider that you’re now buying 8 tires they do quite nicely.

mine is a jeep wrangler (not renegrade, not cherookee, not liberty, not compass, not patriot) the tires came with it are Bridgestone A/T Dueller they harden on temperatures of -20 meaning you break and the jeep slide, swirl even when I carry 60 pounds weight at the back and worse to break quick on cold cold cold days and I do not mean on ice only (nothing stops quick on ice anyway) but it slides on snow like a plastic ice cream pail on cold snow. I want better. I do not care about tire noise because my music will be louder and I do not do a lot of highway driving but want grip for snow days storm especially not be stuck. I do not see why I will drive on 8 inches of mud not too often off-roading.  
If possible I would prefer have 1 set of tires all year instead of switching 2x. I do not know much about tires it seem impossible to have a tire drive all year to do great in +40 weather and to great in -40 weather even a winter tire only probably does not do great when zero degree snow and when on -40 degree snow or zero degree ice condition and -40 ice condition.

be experiencing more then the tires! I know my Cherokee (I know it's not the same as a wrangler) would break free on gravel/snow a lot quicker then my Silverado, due to wheel base. You have to take into play the higher center of gravity and short wheel base, so no tires might help you as much as I think you think they will. I could be wrong and someone with a wrangler might be able to offer a different opinion, but I'm just going off of my experience with my jeep.  
If you are not going off roading then just spend the money on a good set of all season tires, that way your mileage won't get eaten up on the M/T.

May I ask which tires came on your Jeep?

Bridgestone A/T dueller.  
My choice is between Goodrich K02 or Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac at the moment

Like I said I’ve owned both and the Duratracs are a much superior tire.  
 
Find them on a 4 for 3 and you’re set!

Trevor said "Like I said I’ve owned both and the Duratracs are a much superior tire.     Find them on a 4 for 3 and you’re set! "

I am leaning a lot more on Duratrac too.  
Nice to hear comparison from people that did experience from a b and c items.  
Now time to shop deals before all gone

Canadian Tire has them on sale fairly regularly.

I'd also go with the KO2's as I had them on my jeep wrangler when I had it. Super great tire in snow and mud!! And they are covered by the MPI winter tire program!