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I finally got into some snow and mud. About 4" of wet slick snow, steep, rocky and muddy. Silent Armor Pro Grade had excellent traction. My opinion in comparing these with the previous Terra Grappler I had on the same truck is that they perform muuuuch better. The Goodyears do not handle as well on the highway though. For me it's an ok comprimise though. It will be interesting to see the perfomance in deeper snow.
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Get a little mud on the tires
Originally Posted by KevinAH
I finally got into some snow and mud. About 4" of wet slick snow, steep, rocky and muddy. Silent Armor Pro Grade had excellent traction. My opinion in comparing these with the previous Terra Grappler I had on the same truck is that they perform muuuuch better. The Goodyears do not handle as well on the highway though. For me it's an ok comprimise though. It will be interesting to see the perfomance in deeper snow.
Goodyear had a 4 tire for the price of 3 sale on here a while ago and I actually checked on the Pro Grades for my HD. They had exactly zero tires available in 17" or I likely would have tried a set. Kind of hard to pay full price when you know they will be having a 4 for 3 sale again. BTW does Goodyear do that in the States?
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I've had the Toyo Open Countrys on my Ranger. I wasn't that impressed with them. I've had many different tires for use off road and on road. My time on and off road are pretty equal so I can be sure to make good comparisons. I would say so far, the Good Year Silent Armor Pro are some of the best all around tire I've had. The only other tire that compares for me was a Cooper AT on my Jeep GC xj and wj--different vehicle though. I have not ever used BFG AT/KO, I planned on this tire when I purchased the Goodyears but decided to go with a salespersons advice-so far so good. Oh, and BIGDAVE, I use that word "compromise" pretty cautiously since I usually expect more out of my things than they are able to actually do. I would prefer to have traction before high speed cornering in my truck instead of the other way around.
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Originally Posted by KevinAH
I've had the Toyo Open Countrys on my Ranger. I wasn't that impressed with them. I've had many different tires for use off road and on road. My time on and off road are pretty equal so I can be sure to make good comparisons. I would say so far, the Good Year Silent Armor Pro are some of the best all around tire I've had. The only other tire that compares for me was a Cooper AT on my Jeep GC xj and wj--different vehicle though. I have not ever used BFG AT/KO, I planned on this tire when I purchased the Goodyears but decided to go with a salespersons advice-so far so good. Oh, and BIGDAVE, I use that word "compromise" pretty cautiously since I usually expect more out of my things than they are able to actually do. I would prefer to have traction before high speed cornering in my truck instead of the other way around.
This summer while I was at my local speed shop where I had the dyno tuning done, a guy came in with an older Dodge that was done up in "Monster Truck" style. As I recall the wheels were actually 15" but the tires were somewhere up in the 40 inch range. He was telling us about a couple of curves that he had taken at 60 mph (which of course would really be 100 km/h here in Canada) and I tried them later in the summer with my Screw and there is no way that I could make them at that speed. Oh, did I mention that the suspension on his truck included 2 shocks per wheel and monster anti-sway bars, in addition to a variety of parts with which I am not familiar.
BTW I saw a set of BFG AT's on an oil company truck last summer that were about two weeks old and were already pretty gravel chewed. They are a great tire for pavement, snow/ice and light off-road work ( I had them originally on my red 04); they won't stand up under much rock or gravel.
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