Need tire recommendations!

[loveracing1988]

Ever since I had a set of the **** cepek fc-ii I have been a fan of this brand. My cousin has a set of their new trail country a/t on his 2013 f150 4x4 and they are wearing great. He has 40k on them and no road noise what so ever. Also have lots of tread left. I was totally impressed when I rode in his truck a few weeks ago. These will most likely be the kind I will get when my factory ones wear out. Which doesn't look like very far from now. My rears are a little under halfway wore with only 5k miles. I don't drive my truck a lot but when I do its hauling our camper which is the culprit. I would get the new fun country but I want a quieter ride. Maybe look into the **** cepek fun country that they released a couple years ago. I will add that I had a set of Mastercraft axt on my wife's jeep grand cherokee amd they were very noisy after about 8k miles on them. Not a good kind of noise that you would expect a ear piercing howl at around 40 mph. These were rotated every oil change at 5k also. I ran Mastercraft a/t on our old jeep liberty they were a decent tire but again got noisy after some miles were put on them. But traction was always good.

I made the mistake of putting those tires on my wife's grand cherokee as well and they were loud from the start and only getting louder. I have the mxt's on my ram and they are loud but it is a linear loud as in the faster you go the louder they are. The axt's are loudest around 45 to 55 mph where we do most of our driving. I'm not sure how long I am going to put up with them.

 

[MN-Ram]

I just got the Michelin LTX AT2's installed, and they drive nice. A little louder than the Transforce tires that came on the truck, but they seem to be a little more grippy too.

 

[RAM_Designs]

I'll be going Michelin in a 295/70/18 since they're only $230 and from what I have read can last upwards of 80k with a lot of highway miles, which is 90% of what I drive.

 

[zeddy]

Sounds like people have had good results with Cooper, BFG etc.

Personally, and I have run many tires on my trucks over the past 10 years, I would stay away from any Nitto "Grapplers" unless you like replacing tires every 20-25K miles.

I gotta disagree with you on that. I had three sets of Nittos on my titan . First two sets were Terra grapplers about 55k each with 25% tread left. Last set was the trail grapple. had 50k with 40% tread on them. I sold the truck last year with 180k miles on her. The stock good years sra were crap, 20k miles and they were slicks.