Nitto Blowout

The Mad Norsky wrote:

gijoecam wrote:
That's strange because I've had the exact opposite experience with those same two tires. THe M/S's were great on dry pavement. On anything else, they were almost undriveable. In the winter, the tread pattern loaded up with snow and did not clear well. The AT2s, on the other hand, have never left me stuck in 80,000 miles on the Explorer, and the last 20k in my F150. (I even pulled out a stuck tow truck with them last winter!)

Actually not strange at all. Look at the weight of vehicle you are running the tires on. An Explorer and an F-150.

The AT 2's come factory on a lot of the newer F 250/350, 2500/3500 series trucks and it seems they are NOT lasting a long time, nor giving good traction as they wear down.

Those trucks are extremely heavy, a lot of diesel motors, compared to the two vehicles you have used the tires on.

That's why so many on-line reviews of tires are worthless.

Subject A has a heavy F350 type truck, but all the reviews they find are from folks driving much lighter weight vehicles, giving glowing reviews of such and such a tire. So Subject A buys them and finds out they are horrible for such a heavy vehicle as they own.

Understood... But also not the same tires either... C-rated on both of my vehicles versus the E-rated tires on the SD's. Given my experience with them, I am planning to put them on the Super Duty when funds allow as I only put 3-4k a year on her.