Limited Tire Options What Should I get?

Called discount tire today...website says Falken Wildpeake's are on back order, but the store manager promised he could get them in. Went with 35's due to price, and not wanting to leave a 37 in the bed...

Yeah 35's look pretty good on our trucks. I'm happy with mine.

olyelr said:

Although looks are a big determining factor for most when it comes to tires..............

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Ohh I did not know tires came in different colors.

thkbaron said:

I’ve had very good luck with the trail grapplers surprisingly. Not great on ice but no tire is truly awesome unless you run studs. I wish they’d slap the trail grappler sidewall on the ridge grappler.

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I've had really great performance from the Terra Grapplers both on and off road. They are fairly quiet with great grip.

olyelr said:

Although looks are a big determining factor for most when it comes to tires, a wiser way to choose tires is determine…truly determine…how you use your tires and what you expect out of them.

Stt pros look cool, as do most aggressive mud tires, but if you drive on winter roads you are gonna be super disappointed. And if you spend a lot of time on paved roads, they will get chewed up and worn down fairly quickly unless you have your air pressures dialed in perfectly and rotate religiously.

That is why I ended up with a set of phenomenal AT tires (falken wilpeak at3w) for the last set of tires i bought. Because i was honest with myself and 90% of my use is on the road, with some towing, and some off roading (which is rarely in the mud anyway). And I live in northern michigan, so a good winter tire was pretty important to me. Trust me, i want the aesthetics of the mt’s, but lets face it, they just dont perform anywhere near as good for probably 75% of most peoples uses.

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I have the Wildpeaks on my truck too. Great tire.

got my tire situation figured out. Going with Toyo R/T's. With the shortages and unsure timeline on everything else I figured I better jump on these.

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olyelr said:

Correct me if im wrong, but the baja boss mt does not have a 3pmsf rating. While there is a small amount of siping on the tread blocks (often not the case with mt’s) they do not bare the 3pmsf symbol. The baja boss at, however, does.

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The Falken Wildpeaks are the best! I have had a few different sets and have about 90K on my 2017 2500. The factory one were terrible then I got some coppers and they were great, great looking tread, good grip, surprisingly quite but lifespan was about half so after getting a credit multiple research hours My Tire guy suggested the Falkens! They are hands down the best they are unbelievably quite for a off-road wintery 3 peak rated tire. I have window vent and hear the wind off of those before I hear tires. They are great in mud, soso in da soupy stuff like above bumper good, but not a mud swamper type tire, but will get you out. Snow they have been awesome and will get tested again Sunday in the 8-10" we will get. I have about 20-25K miles on them and they look like they have 0 miles on them. Hands-down the best and a 60-65K warranty you really can't beat them nor should you.

I admit I have had way too many sets of tires in the last few years. Toyo AT2, AT3 and RT, Falken at3w, BFG KO2, cooper st maxx and at3, GW duratrac and probably something I am missing. of the above tires I have had multiple sets of Toyo AT2, 2 sets of RT's, multiple sets of ST Max's and the rest all just a single set. We are lucky we have so many good tire choices. If I went out tomorrow and my tires were gone and I could replace them with any of the above named tires I would again go with the Toyo RT's. I live in Montana where it is winter conditions for several months a year and I get out and enjoy winter activities so I am often driving up passes before the snow plows. If I were running a dedicated snow tire all terrain tire (not actual studded or blizzac style tire) I would flip a coin between the Falken AT3w, KO2 and Toyo AT3 or buy which ever was cheapest. But for me I head to moab 2X a year usually in winter months so I want a tire I can play in the dry sand paper of Moab and the rough sharp rocks of montana and yet stay on the roads in the winter time. For me the RT are just flat hard to beat. The only reason I would not pick the ST Maxx is they always get loud at about 10000 miles. Great tires just loud. Now a tire i have not tried and really want to is the Micky Thompson Baja Boss AT's.

I was thinking about going with Mickeys but I really like toyo/nitto's stuff. I've had great luck with everything. I was surprised though on my wife's 4runner.......we have the at3's on it and on the hard packed stuff they are pretty terrible.

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Grand Mesa said:

In 2021 Goodyear acquired Cooper Tire along with their Mickey Thompson brand. So the Mickeys are Goodyear tires.

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OH great ... I thought I heard that but didn't bother looking into it .... I hate goodyear tires they are horrible ... MT and Cooper especially the MTs are B@D@$$ tires but knowing this now I will stay away from them ...

well that's a bummer. Yeah coopers have been hit and miss for years. for quality I still haven't had a bad toyo or nitro. regardless of traction I guess.

thkbaron said:

well that's a bummer. Yeah coopers have been hit and miss for years. for quality I still haven't had a bad toyo or nitro. regardless of traction I guess.

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I loved the STT Pros always have and I was about to put those on my Ram but the owner of the shop where I got it lifted said to go with the Nitto Ridge Grapplers, since I don't do any winter driving in the snow or ice he said these were very good tires in the rain which is what I was looking for, so far in the rain they have kicked @$$ ..

I was going to go with the Toyo MTs but they were not in stock for another 2 weeks and wanted to get it done with ...

Almost 20k on these Grapplers now and they still look like new and feel like new too ...

I've got 54,000 miles on my 295/65/20 Ridge Grapplers. I can probably get another 20,000 out of them. Still handle great in the rain. Haven't had snow in about a year so can't say yet how they will handle that. Still as quiet as the day I got them.

thkbaron said:

I was thinking about going with Mickeys but I really like toyo/nitto's stuff. I've had great luck with everything. I was surprised though on my wife's 4runner.......we have the at3's on it and on the hard packed stuff they are pretty terrible.

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Thats funny…my brother put at3’s (toyo) on his wifes 4runner and nothing but raves from them with those tires. I put a set of them on my wifes ‘22 tahoe and they have been great so far as well.

You hear it all the time, though….one guy raves about xyz brand tires and the next guy had the same set of xyz tires and they flat out sucked.

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Yeah I bet they’d perform better if the 4Runner was a bit heavier. I have never ridden them in mud or dirt. It’s been a very icy winter. No tire is awesome on ice.

rgrbobbyedwards said:

Called discount tire today...website says Falken Wildpeake's are on back order, but the store manager promised he could get them in. Went with 35's due to price, and not wanting to leave a 37 in the bed...

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prefer the Pathfinder A/Ts. great tire for all uses....

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