Found a few discounts and bought new tires. 275 70R18 General Grabber AT2's. $70 rebate from General right now and $70 rebate from tirebuyer.com with promo code gearhead70. I bought them from the dealership I used to work at and had them price match the promo code.

 

Nothing like new hides! I just had to put some on my 2WD. I use highway tires since I like low noise and a soft ride, and BFG 'Long Trail T/A Tour' 235/70-17 did the trick.

 

Those Long Trails should provide the low noise and soft ride along with a very good tread life.

Noise and ride were not too high on my priority list as i went with one of the more aggressive AT tires around in a load range E. My truck is mostly driven in snow, with a trailer behind it or into the woods on hunting trips. My economy car sees almost all of my time on the highway.

 

You definitely got a good tire for your needs. The BFGs are very good. I'm finding the right pressure for them to get a balance between efficiency, long life and ride quality. For now, 35 psi cold - very cold - I set them yesterday morning at 45 degrees, which is probably the coldest it will be here until Fall. That gives about 37-38 psi on the highway which seems to be a good balance. I had my nose rubbed in the tire pressure thing so now I'm a little obsessive on it. Back in the late '90s I had a Jeep Cherokee. Unknown to me, my oil-change joint was over-filling the tires. I was not checking behind them. I had BFG Radial T/As on it which should have been about 32 max, cold. I drove the Jeep on several long trips during that period, some of them down South in blistering August heat - it's a tribute to the BFGs that I didn't have any blowouts, because I later discovered they had been pumping them up to 50 psi. But what did happen was the tires had belt separations, resulting in wheel shimmy, uneven brake rotor wear and the dreaded 4X4 'death wobble'. I never was able to solve it until I realized the tire pressure problem (which went on for about two years) and finally put new tires on it - it instantly rode like a magic carpet. From then on, I check the tires after ANYBODY touches the car for any reason. If the place has air, they will screw with the tires. And another thing - nobody could find out what was wrong with it at the best tire/front-end/frame shops in the area. Nobody ever checked tire pressure or checked for 'bumps' in the tread indicating belt separations. To this day, the whole question of tire damage from over-inflation and the resulting effects on ride quality remains little-known, which is why I bore everyone with my tale every chance I get. And why I check tires on our three vehicles every damn week. Since that episode, I have never had anything but soft, quiet-riding vehicles with no balance problems and no brake chatter.

 

Looks good. So how do you like them so far? They are one of my options on my next tire change.

 

outstanding, thank you for the pics. i am looking looking at that exact tire in that exact size to put on those exact wheels. best deals i'm finding on AT's at the moment in that size is those and the Cooper AT3's.

truck looks great.

 

tried to hit you with the rep gun but it's jammed.

 

So far so good. They definitely throw rocks, so if that's an issue they may not be for you. I was told by 2 different shop owners to buy the General's over Cooper AT3's. These are guys that know me so they could have just been tailoring that recommendation to my needs.

 

I've been running 275/65/18 general grabber at2 on my 07 f150 for about 2 years now. Good traction in summer I run separate rims with studded winter tires but they do eject a lot of gravel enough that I don't even like to drive it to work as i work off a gravel road.