Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Which tires For My Truck? Toyo or Cooper

I love my Nitto Ridge Grapplers. Had 2 sets of Cooper Discovery SST before moving over to the Nittos.

Nittos are quieter and better wet traction. A much better road tire imo.

The Coopers were a little more aggressive and great in the mud.

There is no wrong answer.

Have had a couple of sets of Cooper AT3 and liked them. Pretty good in snow and mud (within reason) and wore well. Quiet enough on the highway as well

+1 on the Nitto Ridge Grapplers. Only about 15k on my set but have so far been great all around; pavement, mud & snow. So far tread life seems pretty good too.

I've had good luck with Cooper AT/3's. I just replaced a set with 57,000 miles on them and could have probably gotten 5000 more. With winter and snow coming I wanted better tires though. But Cooper has changed their marketing. I used to buy them from a small independent shop here at good prices. My dealer says Cooper will no longer sell direct to him, only to the big guys now. He can still get them, but they are going to cost a lot more than before.

He recommended these to me.

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Sumitomo&tireModel=Encounter+AT

He told me that they are the same tire, made in the same factory as the Falken Wildpeak which is well thought of. I was leaning that way, but the guy I've been buying tires from for about 30 years decided it was time to retire. He closed his shop before I got ready to buy.

I found these at our local Sams Club instead.

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Pirelli&tireModel=Scorpion+All+Terrain+Plus

I paid for them on Black Friday and got a pretty good discount, $814 OTD for a set of E rated LT275/70/18's. That was cheaper than I could have gotten Cooper, or Falken. The photo doesn't do a good job of showing the tire. This is a pretty aggressive tread. It is somewhere in between BFG KO2 and Goodyear Duratrac. Only put about 1000 miles on them so far so it is hard to give a meaningful review, but I can find nothing to complain about so far.

Some pics of my tires and truck

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/galleries/14394423#Post14394423

The truck I bought had brand new Cooper AT3's on it and they were terrible in the snow with the truck camper loaded up..I quickly to them to LS and had them sipped aggressively....They work great in the snow and ice now and seem to be lasting well for sipped tires...Great traction with or without the truck camper..

Cooper

They are a great all around truck tire at a reasonable price. Certainly not the quietest. And need regular rotation.

I'm curious about the AT4?

Toyo Open Country's have treated me very well.

I just bought a set of Toyo. I've always been a Michelin fan but they ain't what they once were.

No tire in the world would've made a difference there.

Never had any vibration issue on mine either. They are not quiet, but other than that I've not seen anything better enough to buy over them.

Them damn things wear in a rectangle.

WTF you want them to wear in an ovoid shape so they go thumpity thump thump, thumpity thump thump down the road?

Well, at least they would be thumping in time occasionally.

Frosty the Gottdammerunged Snowman

Yes

They've been as tough as the volcanic rocks I take them over routinely.

Warning: Thread revival.

I followed this thread with interest 6 months ago but wasn't then in need of tires. Now I am.
I currently have 51K on a set of Toyo Open County AT2's. They are on a 2016 F250 6.7 4x4 and is my heavy RV towing machine. My two gripes with the Toyo's are increasing horrible wet traction and they beginning to lose chunks of tread here and there, some are showing cords and will be replaced forthwith.

Are you Cooper guys who have run your Cooper's awhile now still pleased with them?

Thanks

Toyo M55.

I should have included my particular tire size need. My apologies. I run 275 65 20 and is unavailable in a Toyo M55.

Thanks

Thanks for the review. I'm looking closely at the Toyo AT II for a tow vehicle 285/60-R20E. I've run across several reviews that complained about the tires feeling skatey. My vehicle is a 4WD 2500. and I need a really good AT tire.

There's nothing like a good tire thread. Almost as good as the new truck threads.

I have 25K on my Toyo AT2 extremes. Have been a great tire. Might get another 15-20K out of them.

Average at clearing mud.