GREAT COLOR!I have the Cooper Road & Trail and it is a definite improvement over the Hankook LT tires that came with the truck. They give me a better ride and are quiet too. I went from 265/65/17 to 265/70/17 and have the Ford Fox Leveling kit. Haven't put that many miles on them but they are much better in the rain than the Hankook's.
I was thinking of going to a 70 but running stock suspension and they are like 70 cheaper!
265/70 is a more common size used on half ton trucks. They fit on the ranger stock and look better than the stock 265/65. I have had the Cooper AT3 4S on mine for the past few years and about 55000 mi. To my knowledge the road and trail is the successor and roughly equivalent tire. I would say that the Coopers have been a good tire, quiet, light (only 45 lbs for my p285/70/17), and have worn pretty well. Only real complaint I have is the siping wore away so they ended up kind of sucking this past winter. The first 2 winters I had them they were just o.k. in the snow. Though my frame of reference may be skewed as I am comparing them to the old 05' explorer I had on duratracs that I swear was unstoppable in the snow.
Those look like a good choice. They seem well reviewed for a road biased A/T.Well after a lotta Heeming and Hawing...I went with the Firestone Destination AT/2 in the stock 265/65-17 size. Couldn't pass up that deal going on and I had the local Firestone store price match TireRack, albeit only like about a $20 difference. I do like them a lot so far, look fantastic, pretty smooth and handle well in dry but I think they aired them up too much, was reading 37lbs cold and 39 when I drove them for awhile so you can definitely feel the road more than the Hankooks. Gonna try them tomorrow at 33-34 cold and see if that makes any difference.
I recently came across those Outpost nAT as an option in my search for tires. They seem to fill my criteria pretty well. Light, relatively quiet and supposedly good in snow. Also US made which is a plus. I found them on priority tire for a ridiculously low price. I̶ ̶m̶a̶y̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶o̶r̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶. I just ordered them.
That's my pick too.
Aired them down to 34PSI to start, was set at 37PSI cold, definitely smoothed things out quite a bit but have to put more miles on to know for sure!Well after a lotta Heeming and Hawing...I went with the Firestone Destination AT/2 in the stock 265/65-17 size. Couldn't pass up that deal going on and I had the local Firestone store price match TireRack, albeit only like about a $20 difference. I do like them a lot so far, look fantastic, pretty smooth and handle well in dry but I think they aired them up too much, was reading 37lbs cold and 39 when I drove them for awhile so you can definitely feel the road more than the Hankooks. Gonna try them tomorrow at 33-34 cold and see if that makes any difference.
I'll second the Cooper Discoverer Road & Trail AT. I put them on in May (4 months ago). I went with 265/65R18 (one up from stock). I love the look. Mine are XL load rated, which greatly improved my towing over the Hankooks. I have been on a fair amount of variable forest roads also. I am happy with these tires.I have the Cooper Road & Trail and it is a definite improvement over the Hankook LT tires that came with the truck. They give me a better ride and are quiet too. I went from 265/65/17 to 265/70/17 and have the Ford Fox Leveling kit. Haven't put that many miles on them but they are much better in the rain than the Hankook's.
