Niether, both way over priced for what they do

Ask your self this........do you do more city, or highway driving?
Highway - buy an Studless Ice Tire
City - buy a good deep lug snow tire

Michelin X-ice 2 tire is an excellent tire on ice, however in order to be good on ice it much have alot of surface area to grip the ice, thus makes it float and spin in deep snow and slush. Therefor if you drive the highway driving the X-ice2 tire is great, as you will probably never see deep snow, but you will see more ice, or black ice.

I personally like the firestone winterforce, as I do alot of city driving, with alittle highway. This tire has deep lugs to grip in snow and slush, however still better on ice than an all-season not to mention the price is very attractive and the best all-around winter tire in general, with out all the flash of advertising, and commercials to pay for

Just my 2 cents
Duro

 

Niether, both way over priced for what they do

Ask your self this........do you do more city, or highway driving?
Highway - buy an Studless Ice Tire
City - buy a good deep lug snow tire

Michelin X-ice 2 tire is an excellent tire on ice, however in order to be good on ice it much have alot of surface area to grip the ice, thus makes it float and spin in deep snow and slush. Therefor if you drive the highway driving the X-ice2 tire is great, as you will probably never see deep snow, but you will see more ice, or black ice.

I personally like the firestone winterforce, as I do alot of city driving, with alittle highway. This tire has deep lugs to grip in snow and slush, however still better on ice than an all-season not to mention the price is very attractive and the best all-around winter tire in general, with out all the flash of advertising, and commercials to pay for

Just my 2 cents
Duro

I agree with duro. A few days ago I purchased a set of 14 inch steel rims
and General Artics mounted and balanced for $414 total to my door from discount tires direct dot com.

 

LukeSki..
My son had Hankook regular tires on his 08 Accent Hatchback when he bought it and they were very poor on snow,ice, and water. Changed over to Michelins and he says it's like driving a completely different car. Handling on all 3 above is exceptional.
I had "Riken" tires on my 06 Spectra and they were dangerous (sidewall failures at 30k miles) Went with Michelins and no regrets.
X-Ice are good tires although they don't wear as well as conventional Michelin tires.
Dave

 

thanks for the insight I thought by the reviews on the i-pikes that they were good tires, well good thing went with the Michelins x-ice, will get to test them soon hopefully I am not familiar with Riken tires but will be sure to stay away form them, thanks.

 

I have the hankooks I got to say the car is amazing and I only have the two front tires with the Kumho in the back. During that terrible NYC snow last year I was chugging along passing SUVs with all four of their tires spinning.

 

I was looking at Falken's new studless winter tire because they're a good price, but then I decided to get one more winter out of the OE Kumhos.

 

I have last year's iPike model for my winter tire and it's great it the snow, and the price was right.