I need new tires for my truck

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Well it is time for new tires on my truck. I have a z71 with all terrains right now and Im gonna keep the A/T for sure. Now I have narrowed it down to 3 choices. If anybody has any experience with these tires speak up, how do they ride, last, loud...?? I can go either way and actually leaning toward the Toyo at the moment.

Toyo open country A/T 2
Cooper discover A/T 3
BFG rugged terrain
 
simtech said:
Well it is time for new tires on my truck. I have a z71 with all terrains right now and Im gonna keep the A/T for sure. Now I have narrowed it down to 3 choices. If anybody has any experience with these tires speak up, how do they ride, last, loud...?? I can go either way and actually leaning toward the Toyo at the moment.

Toyo open country A/T 2
Cooper discover A/T 3
BFG rugged terrain
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I will admit to being biased against Cooper anything, due to a bad experience with both my local Cooper dealer and Cooper themselves. I'm not sure who or what was at fault in my situation, and the local dealer wanted absolutely nothing to do with helping to find out. Cooper was more receptive until they found out who my local dealer was, then they effectively told me to stick it. That was an interesting series of events, to say the least.

I replaced the Coopers with Michelin LTS/MS2, which is a highway tire, but I also considered Firestone Destination A/T as well.

I read through the review on TireRack, and also looked for reviews from folks with my type of vehicle. It all depends on what type of performance you're looking for from the tire.


JKG
 
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Firestone Destination A/T works ok on my Ford Explorer SportTrac. No problems with road noise or anything.

When buying, I was nervous because of the Firestone/Explorer debacle with blowouts and rollovers back in 2001, but I'm assuming those quality control problems are behind Firestone now. Meanwhile the brand has become cheaper, which was the attraction when I bought.

Tirerack.com is a great place for reviews, BTW.
 
My Z-71's rolling on Goodyear Wrangler Silent Armor...fair tread left but they are due for replacement simply because of age at this point. I've never babied my truck or it's tires, and I'll be buying another set for sure.

Edit: completing my original thought... On my previous trucks I bought exclusively BFGs all-terrain but went in the Goodyear direction last time, I don't regret my decision at all.
 
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We're moving away from the TOYO and toward the Wranglers on the company pick-ups. I like BFG All Terrains on the Explorer but they did not last on the Toyota Sequoia. The roads we drive are vary from gravel to dirt to god-only-knows-what native rock outcrops in the bladed road. Tough environment for the tires fer-sure.
 
I have a Z71 Suburban and replaced the OEM Goodyears with the BFG Rugged Terrains and I'm happy with my decision. They look beefy and they're quiet. I can't tell you much about the tread wear since they're still new.
 
I've run various flavors of Goodyear Wranglers on my Jeep Wrangler over the years. It came with Wrangler GSAs (the spare is still the original) and I'm not sure what is on it now. I've gotten very good life out of these tires over the years.
 
I have this problem every time I buy tires - an for trucks I've always ended up buying Pirellis or Dunlops. The Michelins are just too expensive and not that good. the Kumho's are actually pretty good - just put a set on my ML350 but thats a city truck . . .

You live in Mississippi - you muddin' in the truck? Just off roading in general for hunting and fishing and etc? If there something you need[/] the tire to do? Pirelli wear like crap which means they are sticky as heck. Good in wet, lousy mudders though.

Its like an airplane - match the tire to what you need it to do . . . then pick the highest Temp/Traction rating you can afford - most A/T are NOT going to wear all that long. Esp on the road.
 
pikespeakmtnman said:
My Z-71's rolling on Goodyear Wrangler Silent Armor...fair tread left but they are due for replacement simply because of age at this point. I've never babied my truck or it's tires, and I'll be buying another set for sure.
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My emergency management truck had Silent Armors on it, they were by far the best tires I've ever had. Relatively quiet for their tread aggressiveness, never damaged one even though breaking trail overland for brush fires, great in blizzards, good in mud (other than a dedicated mud tire).

When the truck was replaced, I made the fleet manager put Silent Armors on the new one. Great tread life as well, and better on pavement than the stock tires (I had to run the same emergency vehicle course as the police cars, and the Silent Armors did much better than that highway tires that came stock).

My personal vehicle had BFG AT/KO tires, they were also very good.

Can't comment on the Toyos or Coopers, no experience.
 
I always buy the BF Goodrich T/A's of various styles. (Rugged Terrain, Long Trail, All-Terrain, etc).

I shop around a bit, but, at the end of the day, I buy them at Costco when they have the $70 off on a set of 4, and you can't beat the price and usually save quite a bit.
 
I have run BFG AT/KO on two vehicles now and no complaints other than they're ALWAYS horribly out of balance when new. Big weights to fix it.

These have been on for two years I think, perhaps longer... and I average at least 15K a year... I'll have to look up the exact mileage. Very little wear other than rounding off of the square edges on the outside, and that's because I corner too hard, always. ;)

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Karen's new/used truck came with these Pirelli Scorpions that were so new they still had hair on them, but I suspect they're not going to survive the dirt roads very long. Going to be interesting to find better tires to fit her "bling" 20 inch wheels. Haven't even looked into it (or reviews on the Pirelli tires) yet.

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Co-worker swears by certain Nitto and Yokohama, especially the higher load rated ones with a heavy carcass that are designed for "zero-balance" installation, on his family's 1/2 ton trucks. He tows a 10,500 lb trailer behind his F-150.
 
If you live in the right city, you can rent tires....
 
Well I went with the Toyo's. They have good reviews on the off road forums. Actually I want to say toyo and nitto are the same peeps. My truck is my daily driver and I own land so I really need an AT. Those BFG KO's are my fav! I've had them before on a Toyota that I used to own, but the price went up on the significantly to the tune of $1200 for a set. So I opted for the Toyo, 60k mile tread warranty and for the first 500 miles or 45 days I get a full refund of tires and mount and balance if I don’t like them. We shall see, they are getting installed in the AM.
 
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