Who makes the best light truck tire?

it was noticable on rough highway in my 2nd Gen.
From SL street tire to SL all terrain ride was same. Went to LT load C and it didn't ride as smooth. Lost 1 or 2 mpg on the LT too.
Even driving on trails once in a while or fire roads, the SL AT tire was fine for me.

 

Exactly - I have no clue how long they last because the factory tires get me to 30/50k and I slap on the Defenders and sell the vehicle 100K later - with plenty of tread left.
All have been automobiles. No trucks. So no off road on my Michelin's.

 

everyone is going to have different experiences, i’ll share mine.

i’m a Cooper guy. i’m also a police officer where my agency uses all Cooper tires for our patrol trucks. we have a collective hundreds of thousands of miles across all our trucks and have been running Coopers for well over a decade.

we don’t have issues with them. they hold up well. they look great. 50+ truck fleet and not one complaint. take that as you will. and we beat the shit out of our patrol trucks.

 

What model Cooper is on your truck?

Thanks.

 

closest thing Cooper has to the Michelin's mentioned above would be the Cooper Discoverer AT3/LT

https://www.coopertire.com/en_US/tires/discoverer-at3-lt/24485.html

I would still pick bfg/michelin

 

F150's? 5.0's or twin turbo v6's?

 

Absolutely love Cooper Discovery AT3, perfect for mostly highway miles with some light off roading as well.

 

I've never ran Cooper tires. I've heard positive things about their off road tires.

 

Had Michelins that went a long time and worked great. Changed jobs and my commute went from 50 to 12 round trip. Got some Cooper Discovery AT/3 which were fine in snow, etc but the New Mexico sun burned them out and the delaminated and started to leak. Only Michelin from now on.

 

we ran the AT3 SL until it was discontinued and new we all run the Road + Trail.

 

Good looking tire
My brother runs Coopers exclusively on his work van.

 

C Load tires are LT tires.

Sorry if this has been pointed out already. I didn't have time to read the rest of the replies.

 

My bad

Which ones are "the best" though?

 

there is a dirt road

I got the same Coopers on the last go-around. the Michelins were sold out. I lost almost 2mpg immediately. great tire that got me to some awesome hunting and fishing spots. less good in snowy conditions. but a great looking tire. way better than the soccer mom van looking Michelins. the Cooper lasted 43000 miles and I went back to the M tire. I got back that 2mpg. so weird.

 

Whichever ones I have.

 

Currently running the 245/75 16 Defenders and getting 21.5 mpg on average. Part of that is lack of city driving (rural roads) and altitude (live at 7300’). My 2006 Frontier was lucky to get 14…

 

I took my 2006 truck couse deer hunting in AZ for several years in a row. never got that deer checked off my bucket list

I had a bone stock truck, with the Michelins. I found cell service up this long steep goat trail. I watched a bunch of fully rigged Jeeps go up this thing. they had a guy on foot calling out obstacles. I ate my dinner and told my camp-mates, I am driving up that road to call my wife. one guy joined me to do the same. I put into 4hi and went up. I just drove up there, and pull amongst all the jeep guys. "excuse us, we just need to call our wives". the Michelins grab rocky trails amazingly well. we made our calls, hop in, and drove back down. I left the jeep guys taking pics of their rigs posed on rocks for articulation type pictures.

 

For what it's worth, back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Michelin was making the upper-grade Sears steel belt radial tires. That was back when all the Michelin tires sent to the USA were made in France. Circa 1970, somebody entered a Jeep (I think) in the Baja 500 using just the Sears-Michelin passenger car tires. They won in their class.

So my first set of new tires, in 1973, was Michelin. I put Michelin passenger car tires on my first 4x4, a used high-mileage 1976 full size Jeep Cherokee. We drove that Jeep over Ophir Pass in Colorado, in the Arizona Bradshaws, swam it unintentionally across the upper Hassayampa River, drove it in town, on freeways, on rotten roads all over. Just 235/75-R15 Michelin passenger car tires. And they were whitewalls! Never once had a flat, and never once had a problem going where I wanted to go. Yeah, I didn't want to go through really gnarly places, but you get the idea.

Next set of tires on my `23 Tacoma will probably be Michelin.

 

To me the single biggest test for any off road tire is no flats on sharp rocks. Everything else is secondary