Nokian is made in Finland and the tires are first-class quality. Most of their tires are designed for highly aggressive snow and ice. Look at their website sometime.

I ordered 8 of these tires a while back at $102 a piece delivered. I am super impressed with the quality of their Construction. They claim to be a 70,000 mile as well.

The tread depth is almost a full 1/2 inch.

Anyway, while goofing around on the internet last night I discovered that Walmart had a rollback on the price of these tires down to $64 and change... so I went ahead and bought 12 more tires. We have quite a few vehicles and quite a few trailers. Don't judge.

I have no idea when they will run out of tires and I have no idea if the sale price applies to other sizes as well.

But I do know that a very well-built 123 / 120 Tire for $65 is about a third of what it should sell for.

As an FYI... the DOT date stamp on the 8 tires I previously bought indicate Manufacturing in 2015. Regardless, I registered them with Nokian for their 70000 mile warranty with this exact date. Some people are paranoid of Tire age and some are not. Regardless if the manufacturer will warranty them I will trust them. They look fantastic been stored inside of a warehouse for sure. That's all I know about that.

Good luck.

Never heard of that brand of tire, but it sounds like a heck of a deal.

A friend just got his 5th wheel camper trailer back from the repair shop. Chinese made trailer tire came apart and did a little over $4,000 damage. According to my friend, lots of the Chinese trailer tires are coming apart.

That's definitely a bargain!

Mage in Finland, like SAKO and Tikka? Got to be great quality.

Nokian makes a very good quality Tire.

Maybe... these are super cheap because of the exchange rate at the moment? I don't really know and it's really not that important.

It's totally okay to not buy these tires if you don't like them. I'm only sharing because I think it's a heck of a bargain.

https://www.nokiantires.com

Thanks for the info. Looks like only that 16 inch size was on rollback. My size was $180. Nokians are high quality tires.

What kind of vehicle are you putting them on

Out of stock...watch for hydoplane

Any way to check the date code on them before purchasing?

Maybe there's a reason they're on sale?

My order just went through. I'll pick up at my local store and have them do the install.

Thanks for the heads up.

Just checked for my truck size LT265/70R17 121S they're $212 each. But I'm not in the market right now. From what Walmart shows currently, the Cooper Discover A/T All-season at $136 is a good value.

What a timely thread. My 99 Chevy is in need.

The Coopers are a great value, IMO.

anything made by the Finns, is of the highest quality...

Nokia phones are also developed and made in Finland...along with Tikka and Sako rifles...

If you ever been able to handle a Finnish made AK 47 ( Sako built) and compare it to any Commie made one.. you can really see the difference of Finnish quality....back in the mid 1980s, a Sako made AK 47 sold for $900.00 stateside....

Nokian are excellent tires, and most assoc with high quality snow and ice tires given their Nordic source.
I just grabbed a set of these for my '02 Tundra given their "E" rating. Should be excellent for hauling the truck camper and 1 ton hay loads. (I use Ride-rite air bags)

Thanks for posting!

I just put eight more in my shopping cart. Apparently they are not sold out yet. But I do expect they will be.

Those are DEATH TRAPS.

With DOT date of 2015 manufacture, they only have ONE year left before the SIX year maximum you should drive on them.

Just because they have been warehouse stored and do not have any sign of deterioration of sidewall cracking, DOES NOT mean they are internally sound. Petroleum products break down after being manufactured, and that chemical breakdown can not be stopped.

There is a reason tires have a six year life, and then toss.

It is so you won't kill yourself or your family.

They're cheap because they are dumping them on the market before they could not sell them through any distribution channels, and Walmart helping them just shows how much the Walmart commie kids value American's lives.

Go back and cancel your orders if you value your life. You won't be saving anything, because you'll have to toss them in one year.

Wow. Drove my truck today, not sure how old the tire are.
Had them about 12 years.
It'll be ok.

That comment seems slightly hysterical...

Like democrats demanding that Donald Trump be publicly castrated because he combs over his hair from right to left...

But OK... it is important to me that you now feel better.

I would like to give the Nokians a tryout for an all season truck tire. Been looking at them for a few years.

That deal wont work for me though. Think I'm running 265 70 17's. Coopers seem to be the best quality and price around here.

In 2021, a red ink packet will explode on the sidewall.. Then everyone will know your tires are out of date.

Elksalyer, are you a rubber professional?

Good lord, the stupidity. I'll be sure to post the long term on these...

I ran Nokias on my Ram 3500 with Lance camper on it. Noisier, did not drive as well , nor last as long as the Michelins that came with the used truck. About 35K, as I recall. But they WERE on there, mostly sitting in my garage her, for 8 years while we mostly lived in Kotzebue. Just sitting there isn't all that good .....

Now running Michelins again, year around, less in the winter. I won't buy Nokias again.

I probably should change that spare out also, which came with the truck in 2005 and has been used once a couple years later. And that's when I went with the Nokia. It is a Michelin, but It doesn't match the tread on there now, so I can't do 5 tire rotation.

Reminds me - I gotta do oil change and tire rotation. Every 5K...or so.

Tag

There was a Tire thread SamOlson started here last year, that a lot of people became educated about riding on tires past their life cycle DOT date with tread remaining:

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt.../replacing-tires-due-to-age#Post13956444

In that thread I provided information too, like Discount Tire will NOT mount a tire that is over 5 years old past DOT date. Harley dealers will not test ride a bike they have worked on if they are over 6 years past DOT date, some use 5 years as the cutoff.

You were in SamOlson's tire thread commenting, so you are fully aware of the facts above I just mentioned, so that means you are nothing but a troll to be running your mouth towards me concerning this topic.

To "prove" you're not a troll, you need to go tell everyone in all 8 pages of SamOlson's tire thread they are stupid too, but you won't, because you're a troll.

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt.../replacing-tires-due-to-age#Post13956444

When everyone else is a troll ...

Yeah, I'm a gynecologist of petroleum products. I know what goes on inside.

Well, this person is quite declarative and commanding. I don't remove and toss tires when someone says I must, and the goverment does not force me to do so either. Yes, some tires seem to deteriorate with age, and usually due to how/where sitting over that time. Over the past 6 months I relocated quite a number of old vehicles the 300 miles from our mountain place down to the desert - most of them when it was over 100 degrees for the final 120 miles. All of the tires had very good tread and sidewalls when inspected before the drive All of them are at least 10 years old - some fifteen years. None failed. YMMV

lol..'need'....uh no.

I've had classic vehicles with tires that were 20+ years old and in decent shape.
I wouldn't recommend a road trip on tires that old, but if they are protected from the sun and maintained they can last a helluva long time.

I don't have a care in the world about these new tires. they'll be fine.

Ran two successive sets of Nokian 245/85/16 mud/snow fairly aggressive tread on the big Dodge for bad weather driving up in the high country. They were excellent.

Now that the speed limit is 80 on our local interstates, people drive 90 (+).

If you are driving that fast, tire integrity must be more critical.

I'm the guy driving 60-65 in the slow lane....sorry.

I cut the tag off a mattress once. Never again!

WOW...

That was extremely uncalled for.

Go fugh you and your stupid ass state of Texas.

Or carry your fat ass out to Virginia and we'll sort this out man to hysterical menopausal Texas bytch.

Folks were running 20+ year old tires........

But that was just short stretches........at Bonneville Salt Flats

You compare me to a democrat, AND you chop out the bold part of my post above which proves you were trolling me, just like ALL closet democrats do. People like you, and closet democrats never can debate the facts when they prove you wrong. Always have to obfuscate and cut out the part of posts proving you wrong.

Go pizz off clown.

You're the one pointing people to go buy tires they could get killed on running 70-75 MPH down the highway, after they become unsafe in 1 year, and being fully aware of the DOT date expiring from the tire thread from last year.

This thread wasn't about unloading a classic / show car you cruise around the neighborhood in or farm vehicles that never leave the farm, and everyone knows that.

Nice try, but no cigar.

Do these tires have some sort of self-destruct device?

Just because our nanny government says they can't be sold after a certain date doesn't make them suddenly unsafe. Ten years is a far more realistic life for good to excellent tires.

If government "experts" say not to SELL them after a certain date it stands to reason that a realistic serviceable lifetime exists after the sell-by date. These aren't fish fillets or hamburger.

DOT mandated manufacture dates on tires starting in 2000. What happened before that? Was there a rash of crashes attributed to old tires prior to that?

CashisKing;
Good evening to you sir, I hope the weekend treated you acceptably and you and those you care for are well.

While I am not a tire expert by any stretch, at one point in my working life I did look after maintenance for a fleet of vehicles owned by a local construction and excavation company. There's been a few other tasks done in my working past whereby it was advantageous to have at least a bit of an opinion on such arcane matters as well.

All that said then, by all accounts up on this side of the medicine line Nokian winter tires are generally considered the ne plus ultra, with some mentioning Bizzaks as contenders to the throne sometimes.

Speaking personally, we found some winter rims and installed Nokian studded winters on my good wife's '19 Rav4 and I've got to say that on our Okanagan winter roads - let's imagine Canuck curling rinks but with a negative camber and 9% grade - they're really, really impressive.

We're a bit of a semi-desert up here locally and the sun is the worst enemy of tires I'd suggest. When I was in the storage business that's what the boat trailer and RV folks had the most tire issues with, that is to say if the tires were subjected to direct sunlight/UV rays or not.

The price is unfathomably low by Canadian tire price standards as well, so kudos for both picking up on the good deal and a sincere tip of the hat for passing it onto your fellow 'Fire folk as well.'

Thanks and all the best to you all this fall.

Dwayne

Elkslayer is a stupid obese pig that shows up at a party uninvited... and treats everybody at that party like a subordinate slave and if they don't kowtow to his every wish and demand he calls him a dumbass or a troll or crab or a tree branch or an acorn or a blade of grass or whatever the hell he thinks. He's an unwelcome pathetic POS from Texas. I'm going to have fun with him for the next few months just because I can.

The only thing I tried to do in this entire post was to announce to the general population that there are some very good tires at a very reasonable price and of course some dumbass has to stick his nose in the middle of everything and prove some kind of stupidity because his penis is about a quarter inch long I reckon

None of it really matters. If you don't want to buy the tires as I've suggested three times previously you probably should not. Nonetheless I'm going to have fun for the next few months screwing around with elkslayer because he's a complete hysterical fool and I enjoy it. Frankly I don't care much about my reputation so I'll just drop in occasionally to harass his stupid ass.

Just another moron from Texas

Elkslayer, feel free to go start your own thread on tire safety. It ain't cool to piss on a man's good-will thread to be an authority on tires.

Elkslayer cannot be trusted in any way shape or form he's a bold-faced liar

It's not good to bring the attention of a bad purchase to someone that doesn't know, and might kill them, or their kids or someone else on the road?

LMAO...ok

Only a severely mentally ill person would go off like this, simply because someone reminded people from what was previously discussed last year on tire safety.

I didn't attack this clown, and every person reading this, who has a brain, damn well knows it.

Help is given here, and every day across the internet, and for you and this clown to turn my helpful suggestion into an attack says a whole lot about your mental state.

The second set of 12 tires came in early.



Good robust Nokian 123 (3,450 pound rated) tire.



I own three Dodge diesel trucks (2500 and 3500s)... and a bunch of trailers and other service equipment. These are a tough tire and they should handle the West Virginia mountain rock Backcountry very well.

Wish they had 265/70/16 on sale that cheap.

Yep, they're what I'd buy if I needed some right now. Down the road, who knows?

Here's a pretty good review of the Nokians:

Nokian Rotiiva HT Tire Review & Rating - tirereviewsandmore.com/

I question how well the Nokians operate in mud, which I note, the above review doesn't address. Looks like they're good on wet pavement, snow and gravel, and have a durable compound for long life.

Great looking hoops, thanks to the OP for the heads up These 10ply tires were a steal,..... looking forward to running these on the truck/camper.
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Falken Wildpeak AT3 are another great tire, preferred by many offroaders.

I run them on my off road Jeep and my daily driver / hunting Tundra.

Order them on Amazon, if you have prime. They ship free. Have them installed at a local garage (I use Peerless).

HALF the price of BFG's bought on site, and (IMHO) same or even better quality.

tag

I bought a set in April, they're made in Russia

I had never heard of year limit on tires until a couple of years ago. I was at Costco getting my wife’s tires on and couple came in wanting their winter tires mounted and balanced. Costco looked at the tires and told them these are over 10 years old we are not allowed to touch them. Ii had never heard of suck a thing and later asked another tire shop the same thing. They told me most shops will not mount tires older than 10 years old due to the rubber starting to break down and the shop doesn’t want to be held reliable for anything if it did blow. I’m sure a few lawsuits have occurred in the past.

Those are pretty highly rated tires actually.

how are they holding up? too soon to tell?

Its horseshit IMHO opinion. I worked in tires for a few years. Company had all kinds of wacky rules that in my opinion was just to sell dummies tires. Like mismatched tires on a 4wheel drive on front and back, over 10 years old, this and that. Theres an old school tire store near me that will mount anything you've got for cash. They get all the business the chains wont do cause of "safety rules". I had an old truck with god probably 20 year old e ranges on it. Loaded them for bear all the time, didn't leak a bit of air.

I won't install them until 2nd week of Nov. They're studded and not freezing until this weekend.Flying out for a deer hunt so will be after that before installed.

Got a set put on my 2003 Slob-burban yesterday. It's my hunting dog hauler. I love the handling and decent ride of these tires. They're not aggressive tread Jeep road tires, tread design wise, but they climb well up our steep desert roads. I did an hour trail test this morning and am satisfied they will be fine on rough trails.

I need to move the left front to the left rear. The mental giants at Walmart put the only tire that needed somewhat more balancing weights on front. The other three needed very little weight to balance them. BTW, mine have a 2016 date, so I'd be good until 2026. They'll be used up by then if the Slob-burban lasts that long.

I appreciate the heads up!