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Even though we have a bunch of trucks - all about 50 years old except two - my recent tire buying experience has been limited to one 20 year old big Dodge, and have been running a set of Cooper ATs on it for quite a while.

Now am needing tires for a recently acquired 15 year-old Chev 3/4 ton 4wd and don't know much about the brands/prices being quoted by a smaller independent local tire shop. I want to support the local business if possible. There must be a ton of good info from guys at this site that could be helpful for me and probably a lot of others here.

So, if you have experience with all-terrain tread Hankook, Toyo or Sumitomo Load Range "E" (10 ply and 16 inch probably 245/75R) I would appreciate any assessment. If you are very strong on another brand in this type, would like to hear why.

As for price including mount/balance and heavy local tax, how does about $900 out the door sound? The Sumitomo would be about $740.

Thanks for any advice.

If you aren't going to be in significant mud, the Hankook Dyanpro AT-M is a great tire.

There's been several threads on truck tires in the Hunting Trucks and 4x4 forum down below that might be worth a look see. One of them is fairly current and should be on page 1. With that, of the tires you mention, the Hankook is a very popular truck tire around here. Though I haven't run them myself, I know numerous folks that do and are quite happy with them.

As to price, I just put a set of Nitto Exo Grapplers on my 3/4 ton Dodge (285/70-17, load range E), and they were $1,004 out the door from a local shop (no sales tax).

I just had 4 Cooper A/T 4s's put on my 2017 Chevy Crew 1/2 ton (18 inch) for a little less than $800... I thought that was a good deal on a good tire.

900 is a good deal......if there is road hazard and free balance and rotates.



As Sockpuppet Esq has stated, the Hancook is a great tire for the money.


The Cooper AT's have not been as good for us.


The only Toyo's I have bought have been M-55's. What tire are you looking at? The Open Country?

Sumitomo is not familiar to me.......but I see a lot of "Falken" tires about. Mostly on feed pickups with lots of miles. Must be good tires.

Hankooks are made in Clarksville Tenn. Not sure if Billings makes tires.

No idea if they specifically make your size in my local economy but either way, a plug for a local bis.

Doood.....what is with the Billings deal?


Before my time I am sure....but WTF?

Been running Hankook Dynapro AT-Ms on our Tundra since we replaced the OEM tires at about 25K miles. With the odometer in excess of 219K miles, we are on our third set. My wife has been able to trash two with rock cuts, but I have never had problem in some pretty rough stuff--both down here in the Boot Heel and in several late season hunts up in GMU 17.

According to my local tire store the Sumitomo is the same tire, made in the same factory as the Falken Wildpeak which gets very good reviews. There may be some very minor tread pattern differences, but basically the same tire.

I've gotten good service out of Cooper AT/3's. I just took a set off my F150 with 57,000 miles and still had enough tread to be legal for another 5000-7000 miles. But with winter coming and chances of snow wanted new tires. I had no complaints with the Coopers.

BUT... I bought these instead.

https://www.samsclub.com/p/lt275-70r18e-at-50000/prod22100456?xid=plp_product_1_26

They are a new tire without a lot of feedback but I decided to try them. Sams' has them $80 off for a set + I got another $60 off via a Black Friday special. I paid $814 OTD including all taxes and fees for a set of E rated LT275/70/18's. That was cheaper than I could have gotten Cooper or Falken and only about $50 more than Sumitomo.

It is hard to tell from the photo,but this is a pretty aggressive tire. More so than the BFG KO2's and almost $400 cheaper for a set. I have less than 400 miles on them so I can't give any meaningful evaluation. But so far I'm not finding anything not to like.

FWIW, I was told the same Black Friday price was going to be used for a one day only sale on Dec. 14.

I have BF Goodrich. They last a long time, 70,000 miles.

I was in tires years back and you just cant go wrong all around with BFG All Terrains. If you rotate them they wear like iron. I had seen some with near 80k on them. Work well in snow, rain, ice. No matter what u buy ROTATE THEM. It makes a big difference

Good info flowing here - thanks a lot. Any others?

Dang.. I cant seem to get new tires for my truck for less than 1k... Using some cooper All Terrains right now that have been rock solid, have gone through several sets of Nitto Terra Grapplers and those are great tires as well. I want to say I got close to 80k miles with the nittos, and currently probably have 40k on the coopers and they still have plenty of life left in them, probably get another 20k out of the coopers. Cant remember the exact coopers but they're a fairly aggressive tread A/T. Also, they're on a 1500 that doesn't do a large amount of towing.

I get 90-100k on every set of yokohamas

I've posted in a couple of different places on these, but I've been running the Falken Wildpeak AT3W for around 10K miles (I think). I've been favorably impressed in every regard so far. Towing heavy, sand, snow, rocky roads, and even mud. They aren't a mud tire but did fine in our latest hunt over in unit 15. I fugured I'd need the tire chains but I never took them out of the bed. I'd buy them again.

Why not stick with the Coopers? I have their AT3's in 10 ply, no issues.

1K???
I put a set of AT3's on my truck last year. Paid $150 a tire.

I had a set of Toyo M55s that were excellent, lasted forever and performed great on and off road.

Bought another identical pickup that came with a brand new set of Toyo Open Countrys on it. They were absolutely garbage and completely shot in 30k or so.

Never had either of the other brands you listed.

I have pathfinder AT’s from discount tire. They’re made by Hankook. So far, one of the best sets of tires I’ve had for winter traction. Time will tell on how long they last. I only have 9k on em. But, they look new.