another tire thread....opinions?

When the KO's are new their performance is excellent on icy, snow packed roads. As the tire wears that becomes considerably less impressive. The KO's I have are on a truck that typically gets new KO's every year, so it works. I have the EXO Grappler on another truck and have bought these tires twice now. A really good aggressive AT tire. I have been getting around 50K out of them, which I am totally good with. I am tempted to try Nitto's new Ridge Grappler, looks like a good tread design. The Cooper SST's have been wearing well, especially for as aggressive as they are. They are worthy of consideration. Me personally and those in this area, have zero use for Michelin. The tire shop I use, has a huge pile of new take off Michelins. They simply suck in the Winter and off road. All depends on where your at, probably work fine in other climates and if you stay on pavement. My wife has a set of the Nitto G2 on here 1500 and they are wearing very well, with really good Winter driving traction, the tread design is real blocky and so it bites on ice very well.

Tires on my pickups is one of those areas that I have no issue spending the money it takes to get what performs. Unless taken to the extreme, I will accept less over all mileage if the tire performance is worth the reduced overall mileage.

intheburbs wrote:

brulaz wrote:
Reason I ask is that a lot of these winter and all-weather ATs last long when lightly loaded, but do not get very good treadwear when more heavily loaded. Their rubber compounds are just too soft I guess.

I have to politely disagree with that.

I have 52,000 miles on my Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs on my 3/4-ton Burb.

About 20,000 of that is heavy towing during the summertime, at almost 90% of maximum load rating on the rear tires. You can see my rig below. Another 10,000 miles of that is pulling a 3500-lb cargo trailer. So more than half the miles on the tires are towing.
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That's good to know. And they are a great looking tire as well.

For some reason Goodyear is unwilling to warrantee the treadwear on the LT versions of this tire. They just warrantee the P metrics.

I got over 45,000 miles on my Treadwrights, and that was pretty much worst case: I plowed with the truck, so it did lots of tight maneuvering while very-heavily loaded (1000+lbs over the GVWR, right at both axle ratings).

I have never seen LT tires with any treadwear warranty.

I've had the Yoko G015's for 20k miles. Don't tow, but occasionally haul dirt and gravel, and occasionally help move a friend. I had them during the arctic blast last year and they did great, worthy of the snow flake rating. In all honesty, I think you should expect about 2 (15k miles a year) or 3 (10k miles a years) worth of snow traction. After that, the snow sipes are worn and you have a regular all-terrain tire. I also drive on the beach and on fire roads. They do fine traction wise in those situations, don't really slide anywhere unless I'm being stupid.

Also very happy with the handling and ride quality. They do hum a bit more than a highway tread tire (I originally had the Firestone H/T's). But nothing intrusive so far. Tires aren't as squirmy as the Duratracs I had on my previous F-150. It's a much more solid feeling tire over the Duratracs. These tires are also stiffer than the Firestones I had previous. But the negative is that these tires do transmit more road imperfections into the cab due to their stiffness. So it's all give and take. I'm happy with em.

Thanks to all for your responses.Plenty to ponder.