25/26 Tahoe/Yukon Winter Wheel/Tire Packages

[Sgt1411]

As we enter the winter season Im looking to add some winter wheels/tires to my Tahoe. Looking for information from others who have already done the research and purchased?

I was considering 25/26 Tahoe PPV steel wheels (20") with Bridgestone Blizzaks DM V2.

Anyone purchase 22" wheels and tires package?

I'm seeing Tahoe PPV steel wheels for $300-$400 each so not a big difference from a 22" aluminum OE wheel.

 

[JayceeP]

As we enter the winter season Im looking to add some winter wheels/tires to my Tahoe. Looking for information from others who have already done the research and purchased?

I was considering 25/26 Tahoe PPV steel wheels (20") with Bridgestone Blizzaks DM V2.

Anyone purchase 22" wheels and tires package?

I'm seeing Tahoe PPV steel wheels for $300-$400 each so not a big difference from a 22" aluminum OE wheel.

I run the factory 20” silver alloys off my ‘24 SLT XL as my dedicated winter rim with Blizzak DM V2’s and they’re awesome (also had them on the my F150).

My summer set up is the 22” factory gloss black wheels with Michelin defenders and those ride like butter.

No complaints other than the silver alloys make my beige Yukon look like a grandpa mobile. Looks much sharper with the black wheels.

 

[Stbentoak]

I've had blizzak's on two cars and I can tell you they are the best winter tire out there.....

 

[Sgt1411]

I've had blizzak's on two cars and I can tell you they are the best winter tire out there.....

I agree, thats all I have ever had on previous vehicles too. I was more interested to know what the consensus was on buying 20" steel wheels or just maintaining the 22" OE wheels and getting snow tires installed every year.

I have always had separate steel winter rims and winter tires but wasn't sure if I was too old school and times have changed.

 

[Stbentoak]

I agree, thats all I have ever had on previous vehicles too. I was more interested to know what the consensus was on buying 20" steel wheels or just maintaining the 22" OE wheels and getting snow tires installed every year.

I have always had separate steel winter rims and winter tires but wasn't sure if I was too old school and times have changed.

On my previous vehicles, I usually had a separate set of knockoff rims that I really didn't care about. I certainly didn't take care of them very well when it was minus 5 outside. But they did the job required. I ended up selling them with the vehicle. For 500 bucks. That's about all you can expect when you just don't need them anymore.

 

[Kirk Gebicke]

As we enter the winter season Im looking to add some winter wheels/tires to my Tahoe. Looking for information from others who have already done the research and purchased?

I was considering 25/26 Tahoe PPV steel wheels (20") with Bridgestone Blizzaks DM V2.

Anyone purchase 22" wheels and tires package?

I'm seeing Tahoe PPV steel wheels for $300-$400 each so not a big difference from a 22" aluminum OE wheel.

I bought a set off take off aluminum wheels from marketplace and run X Ice Michelin tires - works great- be aware that older rims have a different offset by a small margin, so stay with rimes made for older vehicles- I paid 600 for the set

 

[ducfan]

I have the X Ice on my daughter's BMW, only because Michelin doesn't offer the Alpin to fit the extra wheels I had for that car. I will say that in my experience, the Alpin's are better all around (snow and dry roads) than the X Ice. I have no experience with the Blizzaks.

Although I haven't yet looked into wheels and tires for my Yuke, I did settle on a combination for the IS350 I will be picking up in two weeks. Tire Rack has some BBS wheels for about $500 each for that car, and the Alpins come in a size that fits those 19" wheels.

 

[WalleyeMikeIII]

When I got mine, I found a set of 20" Alloy's that a guy took off a '22 Sierra, he drove the vehicle from the Dealer to a Wheel/Tire shop, (7 miles), and had custom wheels added. So, I picked up the 4 brand new 20's from the Sierra for $700. Bought some TPMS's from GMC Dealer using my GM Rewards points, and got the 20" Blizzaks installed. In total, I have about $1600 in them, Denali XL is a tank in the snow now...amazing. Check FB marketplace near you for wheels...lots of Pickup Guys take them off, and lots of Tahoe/Suburban guys pull the 20's in favor of 22's... The grey paint in these wheels, I think, goes well w/ my Satin Steele Denali. I kind of prefer the 20's for winter, because the tires are cheaper.

 

[Sgt1411]

I tried several dealerships and discount sites online but those Tahoe PPV wheels are around $400ea no matter where you go so aftermarket wheels might be the better call.

 

[schmit55]

What about that brand of tires from Norway/Sweden?

What is the correct wheel and tire size then for 20"

 

[Sgt1411]

These are from Finland and have very good reviews.

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[Vladimir2306]

I made black forged wheels for my summer tires. They're lighter than the original cast ones, and they're a pleasure to drive in the summer. My winter tires are on original chrome wheels. In the fall and spring, I simply swap out the wheels and sets.

 

[olyelr]

What about that brand of tires from Norway/Sweden?

What is the correct wheel and tire size then for 20"

275/60/20

 

[Vladimir2306]

What about that brand of tires from Norway/Sweden?

What is the correct wheel and tire size then for 20"

In our wintery Russia, Nokian tires are considered the best winter tires of all brands in the world. This applies to both studded and non-studded tires. I've been driving on these tires for 18 years now. But I'm only talking about the winter tires. Their summer tires have very mediocre performance.
Nokian has now left Russia, and our Nokian plant near St. Petersburg produces Ikon tires. They're essentially the same as Nokian.

 

[TrueAt1stLight]

The Blizzak DMV-2’s are the GOLD STANDARD for snow tires for SUVs.

Source: I accumulated approx 400,000 miles in 15 years of field sales driving medium to large SUVs with these tires mounted in some of the most-extreme winter climates in the CONUS (Dakotas, MN, WI, UP of MI, etc).

 

[Vladimir2306]

The Blizzak DMV-2’s are the GOLD STANDARD for snow tires for SUVs.

Source: I accumulated approx 400,000 miles in 15 years of field sales driving medium to large SUVs with these tires mounted in some of the most-extreme winter climates in the CONUS (Dakotas, MN, WI, UP of MI, etc).

Blizzak DMV-2 tires, this is a very old model, even when it was relevant, it was already losing in tests to the Nokian R and R2, and now there is already a Nokian R5

 

[TrueAt1stLight]

These are from Finland and have very good reviews.

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Kal Tire | Nokian Light Truck Tires - Designed specifically for the tough conditions of our Canadian climate and exclusively for Kal Tire. Nokian Tyres give you uncompromising safety, performance and ecological driving on any road.

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I had a set of new Nokian Hakkapeliitta R2’s on a 2018 Audi Q7 and from everything I had read about them, I truly wanted to love them. What I found was while they were significantly better than any all-season tire from past experience in the snow, they still didn’t compare to the Blizzak DMV-2 tires. It was almost like they’d get loaded with snow in the tread and get slick. They also sucked on ice. Keep in mind this was whatever their “R2-gen” set up was so perhaps they’ve improved with current iterations.

 

[Vladimir2306]

I had a set of new Nokian Hakkapeliitta R2’s on a 2018 Audi Q7 and from everything I had read about them, I truly wanted to love them. What I found was while they were significantly better than any all-season tire from past experience in the snow, they still didn’t compare to the Blizzak DMV-2 tires. It was almost like they’d get loaded with snow in the tread and get slick. They also sucked on ice. Keep in mind this was whatever their “R2-gen” set up was so perhaps they’ve improved with current iterations.

But these are tires without studs, so they can't grip the ice properly; they have nothing to grip with. The general story with winter tires is that friction tires perform better than studded tires in Arctic winter conditions. When it's -20-25°C and below, when the ice is so frozen that the studs can't bite into it.
For mild winters, when temperatures hover around freezing, when water and roads are at their most dangerous—between -4°C and +4°C, and even with light snow—studded winter tires are the only choice. I've been driving studded tires for 27 years now. I was just trying to switch to a non-studded tire, specifically the Nokian R3.
I was driving a BMW 6GT back then. And one of my first drives on the highway, in snow and -2°C, was hell. The tires wouldn't grip the road at all, they were slipping on the ice. So I immediately switched back to the studded Nokian tires.

 

[Stbentoak]

We mostly don't do studs here in the United States. The thing that made Blizzak's the standard here is the fact that it is super soft rubber compound.... Which works well in the winter and the quality siping on the tire. With that combination they are hard to beat. Although very soft..... When the weather starts changing, you need to get them off..

 

[Vladimir2306]

We mostly don't do studs here in the United States. The thing that made Blizzak's the standard here is the fact that it is super soft rubber compound.... Which works well in the winter and the quality siping on the tire. With that combination they are hard to beat. Although very soft..... When the weather starts changing, you need to get them off..

You know, it's weird: in Russia, Blizzak is a really hard and noisy tire, worse only than Yokohama Ice Guard. And that's among friction tires. Nokian and Michelin are considered the softest. Continental is somewhere in the middle. Blizzak is a really noisy and hard tire, but its advantage is its wear resistance. Probably no other tire lasts as long as it does.