Good year Adventure performance in pavement and snow

Does anyone have any input on this? They've been fine off-road but I've had issues on pavement with them spinning when I try to merge into traffic quickly or sliding when braking. So I'm worried about general traction with my first fall and winter coming up with these tires. Discount tire's willing to give me 50$/tire towards the purchase of a different tire so I'm starting to evaluate that. BFG KO2's come to mind since people seem to really like them in all conditions, including snow. Any advice appreciated.

 

Put ~100-150 lbs bags of sand/stone in the bed. Strap the bags in the bed, closer to the tail gate over the rear wheels the better.

 

The ABS, TRAC, VSC and various other eNannies should keep you from spinning and sliding on pavement. Unless you turn all that stuff off.

 

Haven’t experienced that personally. They’ve been good enough in rain, dry, and snow.

You can push Discount to give you $75/tire as well. Try it.

 

Falken AT3/W is what you need.

 

Just put BFG's on mine went 265 75 on it, same this Discount gave me $50.00 a wheel. I really like them so far quiet on the road.

 

Thanks for all the input. I've owned many AWD vehicles and this is my second 4WD vehicle and haven't experienced the tire spin on pavement with new tires that I have on these tires and why I was concerned.

 

Bought my Tacoma in the winter of 2016 while living in Michigan. After the first snow I went and bought Duratracs. I was unimpressed with the adventure kevlars. Sold them on CL for like $350’ish, forget how much exactly. Never had a complaint with the Duratracs, and 30k miles later they still have plenty of life left in them.

 

What kind of mpg are you getting? I'm loving the mpg on the stock tires but they aren't too good in the snow. 23 to 25 depending, very little city driving, 30,000 on the originals so far, about worn out.
Duane

 

Try taking the psi down a little. From the factory, mine were at 40. Took it down to 33-34

 

Was thinking Cooper AT3, are those any better in snow? I'd like to get up the hill this winter.

 

Mine are at 30

 

I’m getting a little over 18, mostly city driving

 

I don’t bother keeping track of fuel consumption at the pump, and with over sized tires I don’t think the console mpg display is correct. The console says 18.5, but I think accounting for tire size throwing off the calculations it is more like 20mpg. Keep in mind my truck is a manual and only got about 20mpg to begin with. That is to say that I don’t really think the tires had a huge effect, maybe 0.5 mpg, but I do have the C rated tires and I run them a bit higher on the psi when on the street. There probably isn’t a lighter weight LT 265/75r16 tire than the Duratracs C rated, but rolling resistance plays a factor in the tires mpg influence. Overall I’m fine with the mpg, but my last truck got 10.5 mpg around town so I may have a bit skewed perspective on what is acceptable for truck fuel economy.

 

I have a younger friend who has lifted his truck and added heavy bumpers, gives me a bad time about pinching pennies, so low rolling resistance among other things is important to me. He can afford it, makes maybe twice what I do. I collect camping and backpacking stoves, so a big chunk of my income seems to go towards neat old stoves. If I stopped collecting, I could afford other things.
Duane

 

Similar experiences here w/ the Wranglers. They were decent offroad, not great, but I didn't get stuck with them. After they wore about 1/2 tread, I found their wet pavement performance to be terrible. Even with all the nannies I would regularly slip the rear tires (even with weight in the bed).

Upgraded to Cooper AT3 4S and couldn't be happier. Solid tires, not terribly heavy but heavier than the stock tires. Excellent grip and handling in all conditions I've used them for thus far. I have a review thread up in the tires and wheels forum

They are a 3-peak mountain snowflake rated tire as well so I'll be interested to test out their winter performance soon. Suspect they will do very well based on the design and the sticky silica compound

 

Nice. Pretty sure the AT/3 will be my next tire.

 

And now we have Goodyear Wrangler "UltraTerrains" with the 3 peak winter designation....

 

Do you have any idea how these compare to the KO2s?

 

I have to add, this is good advice because I think it's partly causing the spinning after thinking about it. I'm not sure I've noticed it with a laden bed. It is my first truck although I've owned other AWD and 4WD vehicles.