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[Dgc333]

My Generals were horribly noisy near end of life. Went with a set of Cooper tires, quiet and still competent in muddy situations at job sites. As far as mileage goes, our Tremors are rated 19/19/19, my mileage for the last 22,380 miles is 17.1 mpg. I keep track of all vehicles with Fuelly.
I did a MPG test this past August, on the way to a job site I filled up and drove to the job site and back with the CC set on 55. I filled up at the same station and averaged 25.3mpg for the 47 mile round trip. I've never driven that slow since! My best is always right at 19 with normal driving habits.

Let us know if you do any light off-roading with those Pirelli, would like to see how the fare.

These Coopers:
https://www.coopertire.com/en_US/tires/discoverer-roadtrail-at/24910.html

Those were one of the tires I was looking at. I went with the Pirellis because of the deal I got on the tires. $166 per tire including the Pirelli instant rebate.

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[HenryMac]

Well the original Grabbers did not wear out prematurely. They had 50+k miles on them and still had 1/4" of tread depth, they easily exceeded the 50k mile tread wear warranty. There was no unusual tread wear going on.

I replaced them because they were getting noisy and the wife was complaining.

"Getting Noisy" means uneven tread wear which equals alignment issues. But hey, that's ok, you'll find out.

 

[bmidd]

Those were one of the tires I was looking at. I went with the Pirellis because of the deal I got on the tires. $166 per tire including the Pirelli instant rebate.

Mine were $800 installed at a buddy's shop. Cheapest retailer had them at just over $1k installed. I've liked them so far, 22k miles on them now and still look great.

 

[paval3]

Would they be a suitable tire for a regular 2021 XLT 4x4? When I had the Ranger in for the oil change about a month ago, the Ford Service department checked and commented on the tire depth and said to watch it because they will need to be replaced soon. Yea, the Hankook's look pretty worn for not even 23,000 on the truck. I 99% of the time do secondary road type driving (paved country roads), rarely interstate highways, occasionally out into the hay field just to jump out of the truck to check if hay is drying after cut.

 

[Dgc333]

"Getting Noisy" means uneven tread wear which equals alignment issues. But hey, that's ok, you'll find out.

Well there was no uneven tread wear on the tires. I measured them so I could post them on Facebook Market Place. All 4 had 1/4" of tread depth across the tire and there was no scalloping or cupping. They sold in less than a week.

 

[Dgc333]

Would they be a suitable tire for a regular 2021 XLT 4x4? When I had the Ranger in for the oil change about a month ago, the Ford Service department checked and commented on the tire depth and said to watch it because they will need to be replaced soon. Yea, the Hankook's look pretty worn for not even 23,000 on the truck. I 99% of the time do secondary road type driving (paved country roads), rarely interstate highways, occasionally out into the hay field just to jump out of the truck to check if hay is drying after cut.

You could go for a highway tire but anyone of the road focused all terrains would be a good choice. Tire Rack categorizes to help with chosing.

 

[HenryMac]

Well there was no uneven tread wear on the tires.

Bullshit. I've driven 4x4's for over 25 years, The only reason a tire gets noisy is either defects (slipped belts) or from uneven wear tread patterns.

 

[Dgc333]

Bullshit. I've driven 4x4's for over 25 years, The only reason a tire gets noisy is either defects (slipped belts) or from uneven wear tread patterns.

That's totally untrue. There is a multitude of reasons why a tire would generate noise.

Uneven tread wear or a tire defect for sure. But tread design, rubber compound, road surface, tread wear or ambient temperature can all cause the tire to make more or less noise. The noise a tire makes is caused by the resonance created as air is squeezed out from between the tread and the road surface.

As a matter of fact with the drop in air temperature at the end of October the Grabber tires got markedly quieter. Colder air temps cause the tread compound to get stiffer changing the resonant characteristics. I was going to continue to use them since the wife had stopped complaining about the noise, but my son called saying they were not busy at his shop one day and it would be a good time for him to install. Since I had already purchased them and they were sitting at his shop I did.

I purchased a car back in the 90s that came with Goodyear Eagle AS tires. They were perfectly quiet on asphalt pavement. But when I had the first occasion to drive them on a concrete road surface they got so noisy that I thought something had failed and I pulled over to check the car out. They continued to show that same characteristic until they were worn out and were replaced.

My son put the previous generation Grabber AT tires on his Jeep and they were noisy from the get go. After a few thousand miles he switched to another brand AT tire that was acceptably quiet. When I test drove the Tremor I was expecting to get a noisy tire but the newer generation Grabber ATx was acceptably quiet for the first 40k miles and slowly got louder until my wife started complaining.

In my 45+ years of owning pickups one thing that has always held true. the more aggressive the tread design the more noise they make. Some of these tires stayed constant over the tread life, some got louder and some got quieter.

 

[HenryMac]

When I test drove the Tremor I was expecting to get a noisy tire but the newer generation Grabber ATx was acceptably quiet for the first 40k miles and slowly got louder until my wife started complaining.

And that's related to uneven wear... an alignment issue.​

 

[Dgc333]

And that's related to uneven wear... an alignment issue.​

Please refer to my post right above this one for all the things that can cause tires to make noise and/or change the level of noise they make.

 

[HenryMac]

Please refer to my post right above this one for all the things that can cause tires to make noise and/or change the level of noise they make.

Did you even have the alignment checked?

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