Real world BFG T/A KO2 experience?

Does anyone use these tires? I'm getting a new truck in a month and I'm told the factory tires just don't cut it for my needs. I guess I'll use them for the summer then get good ones for hunting season.

What is your assessment of the new BFG T/A KO2 please?

Will I wear them out on pavement if I leave them on year-round? I found the previous generaiton of BFG T/A tires were soft and lost tread quickly in regular highway driving.

I find that I actually only drive in tough off-road conditions less than 10% of the time. Going hunting for me mostly involves driving a hundred km plus on highways, sometimes many hundreds to get out of town, then perhaps hundreds in the course of a trip on gravel roads and only then if I am exploring a muddy rutted road, a rocky slide, a knarly deactivated logging road or we get something down a rough track, then I REALLY need off-road tires. Same with snow tires. I have left home, headed out in lovely almost balmy autumn weather and ended up in a one-foot dump of snow before I got to my campsite.

So the question is: Is the BFG T/A KO2 the tire I need? In the middle of writing this I had to take a call from the car dealer. He's offering me the tires (16-inch) mounted for $958.00.

What do you think?

 

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See here, especially the last few pages:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/bfgoodrich-all-terrain-t-a-ko2.344486/

and here:

http://www.expeditionportal.com/for...al-impressions-and-hopefully-long-term-report

and here:

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/138808-BFG-KO2-Review-in-ice-storm

As to the price, what exactly are we talking about from the dealer? Four tires I presume (not doing the spare), or is all five? What size - the stock size or something a little larger?

And you are getting these on a new truck. So what happens to the Rugged Trails that came with it? Is the dealer giving you any money for those?

For reference, I took delivery of a 2015 a couple months ago. I drove it down the road the same day to a Discount Tire and they gave me $250 for the five Rugged Fails with just 32 miles on them. So I got five KO2 235/85R16s installed for $800 after the trade in. And the Discount Tire trade in isn't really that good - you'd probably get $350 to $400 on craigslist for five brand new Rugged Fails. I just didn't have the option to do that since I had no way to store and sell the tires where I was purchasing and storing the truck. So no, the dealer isn't giving you a good deal. Yes, that's a not too bad price to get for four KO2s installed - but then he's selling the Rugged Fails to someone else and pocketing the money. Sell them yourself, you'd be able to get five KO2s installed for around $700 after selling the stock Rugged Fails yourself.

The new KO2 apparently is much better about not chunking tread on gravel roads compared to the KO. And it seems to handle snow and ice much better than the KO as well. But there certainly are other tires probably just as good at those things. But you probably want some sort of A/T tire like the KO2 for your needs. Don't go with an M/T given your primarily highway and gravel driving.

 

I'm getting four 245 75 R 16 inch tires. I'm keeping the Rugged Trails on for the summer and either getting 2nd hand rims to put the KO2 tires on or getting the KO2 tires put on in September for hunting season.

I'm in Canada. Looking at the value of the US vs Canadian dollar, in USD my cost will be $785 and I get to keep my Rugged Trail tires. I'm thinking maybe going with the KO2 tires September to February and the Rugged Trails March to September next year.