I'm getting some tires for the Exp and can't decide between the BF Goodrich Long Trail or the Cooper Discoverer H/T. I'm trying to get a nice smooth quiet ride for the highway trips I'm gonna make in it. What do you guys think? I would just get the Michelins but don't want to pay $1000 right now.

I did my front upper control arms, lower ball joints, sway bar links, and all four shocks. Moog and KYB Monomax. It's handling night and day different!

Thanks for any advice

 

Is it a 4x4 Expy ? Read some reviews over on Tire Rack, they offer a lot of experienced opinions. Personally I would go with the Michelins. I got 60k+ miles out of my last set and you can't beat the performance. You can cut corners on other things, but tires aren't one of them.


-Mike


Michelin Defender M/S at TireRack

 

2wd I see your point. I just can't spend that much right now. I have Cooper discoverers on my GMC and they are pretty nice. But they are the ATP not the HTP. So I wanted some input if someone else had the highway coopers. If they had a quiet ride like I've read.

 

I had bf goodridge long trails and they only lasted about 30k miles.. do not buy those.. there are many choices...

 

Similar experience with a set on my Mariner. And if you compare a worn Long Trail to a new one- side by side, you'll see that most of the sipes wore away a long time ago.

Buy the Michelin M/S2's. Buy once, cry once. I replaced my Long Trails with these. Much quieter. And the sipes are molded down to the wear bars. They have about 23,000 miles on them and don't show any wear. I actually sold the Mariner but transferred the tires to my wife's Escape before I did.

 

I am not impressed with wear or mileage on BFG'S. The cooper's I had were decent. My favorite really is the Nitto tires. Great wear, good traction, and long life (terra grapplers)

 

I went with the BFG simply because the price was a little better. Actually got them put on yesterday. If I don't like the ride I'll take them back for the Cooper set. I got 30 days

 

I'm going back up there first thing in the morning. I had my brother go get the tires put on for me and when I got home this is what I'm looking at as my brand new tire. Obviously driven for a few weeks before they were returned by somebody else. I scrub one of them twice and the white still looks dingy. I can't believe they tried to give me a set of tires that were this dirty and call them brand new. All the stripe coloring on the tread is worn off too

 

I guess that's my sign I should just go with the michelins. Maybe I'll fork up the extra couple hundred and just get those

 

I've run on BFGs and never liked the traction or how they wear. IMO Coopers are the better of the two.

 

Thanks for all the input guys. I'm ridin' Michelins happy camper. It was worth the extra $243

 

You'll be very happy with them. Money well spent.

 

Oh I'm sure of it. That's all I run on my cadillacs. Michelins and vogues!

 

We put Michelins on the Expo in 2012 and there is still a bunch of tread left, money well spent. For my F150, in 2009 I bought a set of take-off's from a new truck because they wanted to go oversize, 40,000+ miles and 7 years later they finally need to be replaced.

I don't like putting out that much $$$, but you get what you pay for.

 

I'm running Cooper Discoverer AT3 on mine, they're fine. I only drive on-road, never offroad. And we never see snow or ice here, so they are perfectly fine for this type of climate. Can't comment on slippery conditions or offroad, but I did use Cooper on summer tires with my Chevy Caprice back in Norway, seemed to do fine there as well.