hawc

Trust me it's not any of the Porsche OE Recommend Tires. The Michelin Alpine and the Pirellis SottoWinters (or whatever they're called) are decent all seasons at best. Hardly anything at all in deep snow. Despite the fact they're called snows.

(If you feel differently and love your Porsche OE snow tires that's great. This thread is about trying to find something much more aggressive.)

What can be put on our 20" stock wheels that is super aggressive snow tire? Unfortunately Nokian doesn't make a Hakaapaleita big enough.

Aggressive snow tire in 295/30/20"

What do you recommend???

hawc

Nokian makes this, but is it safe to put a 285 on instead of a 295?

drcollie

Aggressive as in snow and ice traction or are you talking high-speed dry performance in the winter?

hawc

Aggressive as in snow and ice traction. If that's all you cared about, what would you put on on the 20" wheel?

drcollie

Bridgestone Blizzaks are the most aggressive for snow and ice traction for the first 20 % of their tire life, then after that they are like any other snow tire. They use a special micro texture that wears away, but when they are new they are unstoppable.

For maximum traction, you don't want 20" , or even 19". You buy the skinniest, highest profile tire and wheel combo that will clear your calipers. Big old fat 285 x 20 are like a snowboard out there, a proper snow/ice tire is as skinny as you can get it so it goes down to the pavement, not ride on top of the snow. You won't be stylish, but you will get where you are going. For a Porsche, I'd suggest you call Tire Rack and see if they know the combo and make of wheel that will clear.

Myself, I don't run my 991 in the snow/salt/ice/chemicals. I have AWD SUV for winter work.

911sccab

In my mind, "most aggressive" and "20" almost make an oxymoron for winter use.

Stepping down to 19s should open more paths.

hawc

Totally get that smaller/narrower wheel is better. Totally understand that AWD SUV is better. Totally aware of all that.

The point of this thread is to find the most aggressive snow tire for deep snow that will fit on the 991's 20" OEM wheels.

MKW

have used Nokian WR snows on my 911 Turbo for winter use at Tahoe because it was one of the OEMs in Germany ......they stopped and turned very well ( getting going is not the problem with AWD ) , esp on the steep icy/snowy roads that are typical of a mountainous area . They do have low freq rumble on dry warmed roads , but only at around 15-20 mph...at the time , they were the only " all season " usable tire that came with the " snowflake in mountain " snow tire symbol embossed on the tire sidewall ...I kept them on from late October until early May since that is the potential snow season there ...they were actually very decent for spring/ fall use !

hawc

What size? What year Turbo?

hawc

Here are the only options Tire Rack gives. Both Porsche OE recco. Nothing else. Can you put a 285 tire on instead of a 295?

Archimedes

Where are you going to be driving this that you need something more aggressive than the Alpin? A bunch of the GT4 owners in really cold snowy climes over in Northern Europe seem to be using the Alpins in the snow and loving them. They're view is that the limit of their car is being set by the front splitter, not the tires.