Tire Talk...

Spey Rod wrote:
Since I am running right up against my GVWR on the truck I have decided to upgrade to 10 ply tires. My choices at this point are Cooper ST Maxx and AT3 and the Nokian Rotiiva AT. I am looking for size LT275/65R18.

If you have any experience with 10 ply tires feel free to provide input good bad or indifferent.

Thanks!

I've already stated the Hankook, my reason for tire selection comes down to a few items:
1 tread design, I wont spend extra $$ on winter tires, cant afford it. So the Hankook for me has extra siping when compared to the Coopers.
2 Tread block design, since we tow a lot, I like the semi continuous center lug that encompasses the tire, that leads to less rolling resistance on a AT tire design.
That being said my 2nd choice would be the Toyo Open Country II, again for the reasons I stated. They also come in a load C which is a good compromise between the P-metric and load E. Putting load E on my truck gives me no added benefit as we dont have a TT or load up to my max. It would probably cost me more $$ in fuel just to run the added weight of the 10 ply & rolling resistance.
In the end I will probably go Toyo in load C which also has 80k km warranty here, which no other manufacture will do on a LT tire.