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Does anyone have experience with Nitto's on a 3/4-1 ton with diesel application? I know nothing about these tires, but I'm in need of a new set.

The Firestone Transforce AT's that came on my 3/4 Ram are already down to the tread wear indicators at just 22k miles. Crap tires.

Just wondering how they do with a heavy load on them (5th wheel) and mileage (longevity). Looking at the Terra Grappler and Ridge Grappler.

Thanks!

Had Terra Grappler's (1st Gen) on my 2014 Ram 2500. About 30k miles and they were done. Put Michelin Defenders on after the Nitto's and got 55k miles out of them. Much smoother and quieter ride with the Michelins. Now running a second set of them.

I've got a set of the 2nd generation Grapplers on my 3/4 ton Ram, but not enough miles on them to comment; sorry.

look here.......DTD..........lots of tire choices.........

Cooper AT3s........Falkin Wildpeak AT3s.........are real popular

BFG KO2s ? never ran Nitto's either

https://www.discounttiredirect.com/tires/brands/nitto-catalog?cat=all-terrain-tires

General Grabber AT2s real popular too



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I was pretty close to putting ridge grapplers on my truck, ended up with BFGs instead. In the end the BFGs won because of price and I've had good luck with them in the past. If I wasn't putting 18k miles/year on my truck I might have opted for the Nittos, but to spend $1500 on tires and have them be shot after 2 years would piss me off.

That's what I'm trying to avoid. I'd routinely get over 50k with BFG AT's on 1/2 ton vehicles, but they only went 32k on my last 3/4 Ram. I was happy with the Hankook Dynapro AT's that I put on it, but they don't make it in the size I need (or at least Discount doesn't offer it) for the new truck. Have some Cooper Discovery AT3 on some work trucks (1/2 ton), and they are holding up okay so far.

Factory size is 285/60 R20 and the offerings in that size are pretty limited. Don't want to have to buy different size wheels, even though that would give my a lot more options. Looking at size-up options too.

I just have no experience with the Nitto's and how they do, hence my request for input on them.

Thanks fellas.

I got 45k miles from my first set. On my second now but these are the second gen or whatever. I went back with them because the first set lasted longer than any tire I've had on a diesel. Single rear wheel ton dodge

Take a look at 275/65/20. They are a hair narrower but basically the same OD

^ I was going to say the same. That is a stock ford size for 3/4 and 1 tons, so most choices will be e rated.

Thanks fellas, I'll take a look at the offerings in those sizes too.

I have the same truck , same size tires and same junk firestones on my dodge. 22,000 miles on them and they are shot. I've had the BFG's on another truck and they don't last either. I tow a trailer and I'm looking at Cooper AT3's ,or the Michelin Defenders. I've never run either tire, but they seem to get a pretty good review

On my '07 ram 2500 Cummins, I ran three sets of 33"x12.50 Cooper STT's after the factory (forget what they were) tires wore out at 40k. I got between 50k and 60k out of all three sets of Coopers depending on how often I managed to rotate them. IMO, they are a great mud tire! Pretty quiet when new but like all mud tires, get pretty loud the more they wear.

I grew tired of mud tire noise on the highway and went with Toyo AT II's for the current set. I currently have about 25k on the Toyos and if it weren't for 1000ftlbs of torque to the rear tires, they would be showing very little wear. I rotate them when I see the rears wearing because the fronts never do.

I have no idea how fast the Coopers would wear with the additional torque because they were previous to the HP/Torque mods. Definitely been impressed with both tires so far, though for different purposes....

Anecdotally, I had a set of 33"x12.50 Nitto Mud grapplers on a 4000lb Jeep CJ7 that didn't last no time with a about a 60/40 mix of offroad and highway driving...Around 30k.


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I have had 2 sets of Nitto Exo Grapplers, 45,000 on the first set, still driving the second. This on a Ford diesel. Pulls an 18,000 lb fifth wheel. They are designed for more mileage than their pure "off road" tires.

I have been running a 35x11.50r20 ridge grappler on my 17 Ram 2500. So far they have been great in the snow and ice, not to loud and I think I will get close to 50k on them. Now I don’t tow much, if I did I would look at their Exo Grappler line.

I have used Nittos more than any other tire and really like them. I think the fastest wearing set made it over 40k with rotating every 5-8k.

I had a set of Trail Grapplers that I put ~40K on on my '11 F250 6.7L PSD. They probably had another ~10K worth of summer driving, but I like lots of tread for fall/winter up here where we get months of snow and ice.

I just put a set of Exo Grapplers on recently, but I don't have 500Mi on them yet. I can say that the little bit I've driven with them, I'm very impressed with their traction on packed down very slick snow/ice. The tire dude said that they balanced really easily and from in-town driving to 80MPH going down the interstate, there's nary a wiggle, exceptionally smooth.

I appreciate the input from everyone, especially those with direct info and experience with the Nitto's.

That's been my experience with the EXO too, but only on a 1/2-ton 4x4. Need to try them under more conditions, but am pretty happy with them so far with 15k miles.

Plan to be unimpressed with the bfg’s. These ko2’s aren’t much better than the Goodyear Wrangler SRA’s it came with.h

Interesting, I've had 1 set of BFG KO's and a set of KO II's and I was very happy with both. Both were on F-250's w/PDS's. The only complaint I've ever had about the BFG's is that they're rock-throwin' summbitches. Current set on the spare rims for my F-250 is down to ~1/3 tread left, maybe less. I ran them for hunting season and I was still able to motor through some steep and greasy stuff without much drama. They really started pushing through bends on gravel roads though. Not 90 degree corners, but bends you should be able to go through @ 40-50MPH I was having to back off below 40, they'd just lost lateral bite. I still don't quite "get it" because earlier that same day I climbed out of a river bottom to the top of a bluff through an icy-muddy-melty greasy trail without any real drama. I put it in 4-Low for more immediate throttle response both ways and just chugged right up. Don't get me wrong, it spun plenty but I never felt like I lost forward bite.