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Well fwiw my current all terrains have been great. Load range e ona. Tacoma. I’ve got 50k on em and they will see about 70k by the time I replace them. Great performance on and off road and they have stayed quiet.

I had just heard some really good mileage claims for the duratrak

I've run them. Would NEVER do so again.

They have incredibly weak sidewalls. In AZ's sharp rocks, I managed to run 16 years on my last Tacoma without a flat with different tires. About the third extended trip out I lost 3 Duracrap tires to sidewall punctures and gashes during the course of a one week elk hunt. Lost one to a pencil diameter wet stick through the sidewall. Bought them when they were still a new tire and didn't have a lot of information out there about them. My bad. They seemed like a perfect compromise between an AT and an MT.

Those were the "c" rated tires. Sidewalls were incredibly thin and flimsy. As thin or weak as the Bridgestone "HT's (Highway Terrain) I took off the truck which were factory tires. Not sure how much (or if) the "e" rated tires would fare. But if you google "duratrac weak sidewalls" you'll have all the info you need.

They also got quite noisy as time wore on, showed excessive chunking and cupping.

I've run BFG AT's (long time ago), Goodyear Duratracs, and more recently Goodyear MTR's, Bridgestone MT's (previous go to tire), Firestone MT's (bought reluctantly after Bridgestone discontinued the MT in my size), and am currently running Cooper Discoverer ST Maxx.

Of all of them, the ST Maxx has turned out to be my favorite tire, and I see no reason to go any other way from here on out. If they keep making them, I'll keep buying them. Like the Duratrac, good compromise between an AT and an MT, siped, and ready to accept studs if you want them. Of all of them, I believe them to be the quietest aggressive tire I've run (with the exception of the BFG AT's when they were newer). They do well in rain, highway, dirt and mud....but no experience in snow or ice yet. And they take a beating in the rocks well.

A bit stiffer since they're only available in "e" rated, but don't even notice anymore.

If you're not going in the dirt, I think the duratracs are a good road and snow tire if you rotate frequently. But they will get noisier even with that.

If you get off road, and in places where you're hard to get to or where tire failures mean being stranded or a long walk out, I would pass.

Been running 10 ply Duratracs on a 2011 F250 since it left the lot. Not one failure if any kind. They have gotten us into and out of the ranch we manage in winter when we shouldn't have. That truck has been down some extreme roads around the ranch and up in the mountains, granite country. Again, not a failure.
Do they last 60,000 miles, no way but it's all we run on that truck and it travels all winter through some nasty conditions. Gets great traction in our snow and good enough in mud.
Pretty much see them all over town on trucks, they are a big seller for our part of the country.
They are an aggressive tread pattern so yes they are not quiet. Get 10 ply, E, if you get them.

Currently 10k miles into the second set of E-rated Duratrac's on my 80 series Landcruiser. First set were loud when I changed them out, but at 72k miles, I was not upset. Also a 5 tire rotation.

That rig sees very little pavement, lots of high-speed washboard gravel and mountain two tracks. Also goes to Moab at least once a year to crawl around.

A couple flats, well deserved, no sidewall issues or uneven wear.

YMMV

A sight to behold is a Locked-N-Cocked Jeep with duratracs slide off a mountain road whilst a Subaru drives up without spinning a tire.

jl....you seem like a nice guy....but that was an dumb comparison.....bob