Recommend me some Truck Tires

I used to use BFG All Terrain T/A’s religiously and they were awesome in snow up until about half tread was gone, then they were the absolute worst. After awhile, I couldn’t keep justifying the price BFG’s. I switched to Bridgestone Duelers & haven’t been back to BFG since. While not as good in the snow initially, they seemed better overall throughout the entire life of the tire.

Just my experience. YMMV.

You should go with a Load Range E rated tire. My experience is with BFG and Toyo. The last ten years or so, I have been running Toyos and they have served me well on-road and off. Some tire damage can be avoided and some cannot. It may help if you can identify where you are picking up the trash and try to avoid that area, or stop pissing off your neighbor. :slight_smile:

I’m on my second set of E-rated Cooper Discoverer AT3’s and I’ve been super happy with them. I travel a bunch of long distance miles on gravel roads known for causing flats with zero issues.

I’ll let you know next January.

Oh and I’m running E load tires on my Tacoma that weighs just a hair over 4,000 pounds. So don’t fret about putting a set on a full size.

if you get the KO2 they are snow rated should do awesome
I am planning on the KO2 this time around for our new 4runner since they are snow rated :slight_smile:

after having on/off road tires and mud type off road tires for snow the on/off with the snow rating any of them will out do anything but a true winter snow tire :slight_smile: was shocked at how much better the snow rated tires handled in the wet snow and dry cold snow than previous tires !

I have goodyear wranglers on my F150, they are a good tire choice for mud and wet pavement but the Kevlar means nothing to a nail or screw, I’ve been driving on a plugged tire for about a year.

Check out the cooper st maxx if you want an aggressive all terrain similar to the duratrac but with stronger sidewalls.

Um, my Nitto Terra Grappler 285’s are some boss ass tires.

The Bridgestone Dueler is not very aggressive and looks like a big street tire.

We run Bridgestone Potenzas on the Volvos and they did great.

Agreed. Also look into a narrow profile (“pizza cutter”) tire, they work much better in snow than those wide, fat tires people seem to love putting on jeeps.

Copy that.
Running my first set, I’m 6k in and really like these tires on my Ram 2500 4wd. 285/70/17 Load E from Discount Tired OTD $1108

Pretty good tread pattern on these things and impressed with them in the wet. ETA: the previous Terra Grapplers were horrible in the rain, decent off the pavement. I’ve run BFGs in the snow, they were ice donuts and worthless. Never ran AT/KOs in snow, ran them in dirt/clay…they were ok but packed quickly. All in mind these are ATs and not MTs so they won’t clear quickly.

How so? A smaller contact patch makes for less friction with the road. It hasn’t been my experiance that more narrow tires worked better but we also didn’t have a few feet of snow on the ground all winter back in NY.

More siping and a tread design made to hold snow makes a good snow tire. Snow stuck to the tire sticks to snow stuck on the road. Conti DWS is the best example of that.

Winter rated tires are designed to stay soft and sticky in weather averaging below 45* they also have that little snow symbol.

A wide tire will try to float on the snow rather than dig down to the solid ground where the traction is. I had to swap out the 33’s on my YJ every year when i lived in VT or the thing would slide all over the road. The 29" M+S rated street tires did way better than those 33" MTR MT tires could ever dream of. My MR2 with narrow dedicated studded snow tires did better still than even the jeep except in the deep stuff, and thats a 2wd mid engine sports car.

Now if you are trying to cross a open field with 4 feet of snow, the wider tire would probably work better as they do in deep mud.

Here is the answer
http://www.expeditionswest.com/research/white_papers/tire_selection_rev1.html

ditto pizza cutters :slight_smile:

also kinda want to to the new Cooper STMaxx seems to be getting awesome reviews but its more off road than on :wink:

Snow?

I am in South Texas…what the hell is snow?

LOL

Other than snow, the BFGs do well on rain slick pavement, dirt roads, sandy beaches and muddy cow fields.

Snow? I have no idea how they do in that…sorry.