COOPER TIRES FTW!
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COOPER TIRES FTW!
Seems like a lot of people have been asking about tires lately, and several times The cooper Discover AT3 has been recommended.
Well, I just bought a brand-new set of them Monday and had them installed on the truck....
All I can say is
MAN WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!
They ride nice, are super quiet, Have a fantastic traction, and are stable!
For one reason or another, The truck steers much easier now as well. Effort is probably about half of what it was to turn the steering wheel.
We will see what changes as they get more broken in and as they wear down.
Well, I just bought a brand-new set of them Monday and had them installed on the truck....
All I can say is
MAN WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!
They ride nice, are super quiet, Have a fantastic traction, and are stable!
For one reason or another, The truck steers much easier now as well. Effort is probably about half of what it was to turn the steering wheel.
We will see what changes as they get more broken in and as they wear down.
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Less effort on the steering is always better, no matter how you get there.
....The change to PS on my truck was definitely worth it to me. Good tires or if they were worn tires, it's still easy to turn the steering wheel.
....The change to PS on my truck was definitely worth it to me. Good tires or if they were worn tires, it's still easy to turn the steering wheel.
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From: On the Edge of the Desert
Originally Posted by willowbilly3
I've ran them and liked them fine except they throw rocks if you drive on gravel. And I had one with about 80% tread let go and tear the fender off my Super Duty.
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I feel like that's unavoidable.. maybe I'm wrong. And super dutys are just hard on tires. I don't know why. Our F-350 has gone through more tires than any other vehicle we have. Can't ever make it through a set without having separations... nittos were the worst. Bfgs were slightly better. The coopers were great but only ran for a few months before being taken off and replaced by bigger ones.
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New tires are always nice. I have been running General Grabbers on my 05. Aggressive tread, quiet for the tread pattern, excellent for plowing and general use. 1st set I ran 80,000 miles. I was always a BFG guy in the past. The Generals are quite a bit less expensive.
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From: On the Edge of the Desert
Originally Posted by HIO Silver
New tires is like a fresh piece of bubble gum. Wait til the "goody" wears off for true steering feedback.
Originally Posted by GaryKip
Toyo tires have always been good to me, You can't hardly go wrong with 10 plys.
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I put a set of AT3 31x10.5x15 on my daily driver 98 Durango. They lasted about 55k miles and 4 years. In that time, I had 2 teenage drivers, with my son pounding the crap out of it. The tires held up well, worked well in snow, and got me out of quite a bit of sticky mud. I just had another set put on last year or so. Thinking of putting the Cooper STT's on the 68. Not so much that I need that type of tire for the driving I do with the truck, but just to keep the look.
