Best Tires

TacoGal

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I’m looking to get new tires and not sure what to get. I rarely ever do off-road so I want some good AT tires that perform well. Thoughts on Michelin LTX A/T2? I need something that gets traction in the rain
 
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Seems with todays tires they all work well in the rain. If you hardly ever go off road why to you need all terrain tires? I've found the stock firestone destination all season tires even pretty decent on unimproved dirt roads, plus they don't throw stones that cause paint chips like all terrain will.
 
Toyota once put Michelins on Tundras. They were great, long lasting tires. My Tacoma came with Toyos. Can't say I'm impressed, but it likely save Toyota a few buck on each vehicle. I run BFG T/A KO2's on my Jeep. I ran the original T/A KO's before that. These have been outstanding tires. While I don't need an all terrain tire often, and could likely get by with something cheaper I will be putting TA KO2' on when it's time.
 
I once ran michelins on my gen1 tundra...waste of money. They wore out quicker than some tires, and were less than average in snow, Found general grabber AT2 tires pretty good except on black ice. In deep snow they were unbeatable, otherwise except ice those grabbers were great in all kinds of weather.
 
I am a big fan of K02s. All I ever use since owning pickup trucks starting in '99.
 
Those ko2's are heavy tires. I ran a set on my tundra. Thought the gas mileage was bad with the tires before. Those BF goodrich ko2's made it much worse. I never ran them again.
 
Goodyear Wrangler all-terrain adventure in load range E. They last me 250,000 km a set. That's about 160,000 miles.

i must say that is some long-lasting rubber!
with the kevlar?

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I had Falken Wildpeak AT3W in 265/75/16 SL, replaced them with Cooper Discoverer AT3 4S after 5 months. I bought the Falken after reading all the raving reviews on Tacoma World, did not like them on the truck, definitely more road noise than the stock Goodyear Wrangler, had shimmy on highway, even after road force balance by 2 different tire shop. Have the Cooper on my truck for almost 2 months now, drove through midwest snow storm, packed snow, ice, rain, zero issues. No road noise, no shimmy, better MPG since its lighter weight.

Best of all, the Cooper were cheaper than Falken at my local Discount Tires. $560 mounted balanced out the door after tax.
 
I had Falken Wildpeak AT3W in 265/75/16 SL, replaced them with Cooper Discoverer AT3 4S after 5 months. I bought the Falken after reading all the raving reviews on Tacoma World, did not like them on the truck, definitely more road noise than the stock Goodyear Wrangler, had shimmy on highway, even after road force balance by 2 different tire shop. Have the Cooper on my truck for almost 2 months now, drove through midwest snow storm, packed snow, ice, rain, zero issues. No road noise, no shimmy, better MPG since its lighter weight.

Best of all, the Cooper were cheaper than Falken at my local Discount Tires. $560 mounted balanced out the door after tax.
How fast were you rolling with the wildpeaks to induce road noise?
 
Balancing issues are hit or miss with Wildpeaks. In my research I noticed folks complaining about vibrations. I recently made the move to Cooper Discoverer AT3 XLT and they are absolutely fabulous.
 
20220113_161115_Film1~2.jpg Like my hankook AT -Dynapro w/25k on them and they still got lots of tread and nice on the highway i hated the destinations it came with they would sing on highway
 
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View attachment 33914 Like my hankook at dynapro w/25k on them and they still got lots of tread and nice on the higheay i hated the destinations it came with they would sing on highway

how do those handle some healthy winter slopp?
i went to northern Minnesota this past spring to test the newish Michelin LTX on my truck in some heavy wet slopp, it was above freezing at the time but the snow was heavy and wet
those Michelin did not perform well at all to my liking
it felt utterly hopeless trying to wheel this in 4x4 with the throttle down coming out of a stop on a left turn and maintain a sense of control, the truck just kept wanting to spin out around :confused:

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