Cooper Discoverer Rugged Trek

It is looking like this is the tire I will be going with. Pros? Cons?

275/65r20

ive found that asking for opinions and reading tire reviews to be totally worthless. with everyones driving habits different. different vehicles. different rotation intervals . different air pressures , different envirnmental conditions . different towing weights. the list can go on and on. and on.
if the tires look good to you then buy them.

ClassicJoe said:

It is looking like this is the tire I will be going with. Pros? Cons?

275/65r20

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Unfortunately in this day and age it what tires you can find in stock. We have been selling a good amount of the rugged treks and the feedback has been all good. Mostly because we know how to actually balance truck wheels and most of our customers it’s the first experience talking to someone who actually cares.

I know nothing about the Rugged Trek. I own 295/60 20 Cooper STT Pros that I normally run during Winter months and 295/60 20 Cooper Discoverer AT3 XLTs that I run the rest of the year. I lot depends on how you intend to use the tires. I don't do routine off-roading, my only true need for aggressive tires may only occur a few times a year at most when visiting friends in the boondocks or navigating through a foot of snow. During Summer I pull a bassboat and a camper (not at the same time). I can say that I've been happier with both of these sets of Coopers, than any truck tire I've owned. I believe the AT3 is the quietest All Terrain LT tire I've ever owned. Made in America, I don't believe you can go wrong with a set of Coopers.

Princeton_Man said:

I know nothing about the Rugged Trek. I own 295/60 20 Cooper STT Pros that I normally run during Winter months and 295/60 20 Cooper Discoverer AT3 XLTs that I run the rest of the year. I lot depends on how you intend to use the tires. I don't do routine off-roading, my only true need for aggressive tires may only occur a few times a year at most when visiting friends in the boondocks or navigating through a foot of snow. During Summer I pull a bassboat and a camper (not at the same time). I can say that I've been happier with both of these sets of Coopers, than any truck tire I've owned. I believe the AT3 is the quietest All Terrain LT tire I've ever owned. Made in America, I don't believe you can go wrong with a set of Coopers.

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My truck is not my daily driver, but is still 75-80% on road and some "off-road" around the farm during deer and turkey season... I want an aggressive looking tire, but see no real need for mud tires, although I did consider mud tires due to the fact that I do not drive my truck all of the time.

I feel like the Rugged Treks will give the aggressive look that I want along with good road manners and being able to handle whatever the farm may throw at it. I like the look of the Duratracs, but had a bad experience with them on my F-150, so I am going to stay away from those.

I do not do any mud bogging or rock crawling, so it should do just fine for what I do in my truck. Either way, i ordered them today and will be having them installed tomorrow morning, so I hope that I made the right choice...

FWIW I've been very happy with copper tires.

2ndA732 said:

FWIW I've been very happy with copper tires.

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How are they on wet dirt roads, "light" mud (such as what you would encounter around a farm)?

ClassicJoe said:

How are they on wet dirt roads, "light" mud (such as what you would encounter around a farm)?

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I’ve been happy with my Cooper AT3 4S and sounds like they could handle your needs. Hopefully our definition of light mud is the same. Also check out falken wildpeak AT3. . They get good reviews on this forum .

The closest simulation I had to wet dirt roads was for a dog test on a working farm. It was a mixture of snow, dirt and mud. Driving through it was pretty slick, I have the STT pros. I'd imagine if the layer of dirt below were hard I wouldn't have skid out so much. Here's a pic of where it was. I didn't get stuck, and others were skidding all over the place.

So far, so good. MPG have not been negatively effected. I have only driven on the road, but not bad at all. I plan to get to the farm on Thursday to take down treestands, so I will give a better review once I get off the road a little.

Since there do not seem to be any reviews (that I can find) on here about this tire, I will keep this up to date...

I will not get a chance to "test" them out on the farm today, but I did notice a slight hum driving this morning. Not bad at all, but definitely a hum, which should be expected from an aggressive tire.

Well, I made it to the farm today. They handled as well as I expected them to. I tried to turn around in a food plot at one point and got bogged down... I put it in 4low and backed out with ease. I am not going to give 100% credit to the tires, but I do not believe my old highway tires would have backed out of that, even in 4wd...

The tires seemed to clean themselves out pretty well. I did not go mud bogging, but drove through enough of it that I felt like the tires did a good job of cleaning the mud out as I drove.