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Ridge Grappler or KO2

Discussion in 'Wheels & Tires' started by Shap09, Sep 3, 2018.

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Sep 19, 2018 at 9:18 PM

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Lostsheep said: ↑

Realize the OP already made the call but throwing my $.02 in for others stumbling into this thread.

I had 265/70/17 KO2's before my current set of 285/75/17 Ridge Grapplers so I feel like I might have something to add here.

The KO2's were tough as nails and I ran them for almost 50K before I swapped to the Grapplers. The KO2's took a whole lot of abuse and performed fantastic offroad with a long life. They were quiet and rode smooth until I took them off. My only complaint about them was there lack of wet weather traction; I would call it sub par but I live in Nor Cal and we don't get a lot of rain so that was not a big deal for me. Traction on ice covered highways was fine.

The Ridge Grapplers have excellent wet weather traction and have likewise been good on the ice covered highways. They are quiet and smooth going down the highway. Offroad they too have been excellent and have shown to be very tough and have withstood a lot of abuse. I wheel in the Sierra's so there is lots of tire spin on the rocks. Neither tire has chunked out from doing so. Thus far though I have to say I am unhappy with how fast they appear to be wearing compared to the KO2s; I have treated them both the same and the Ridge Grapplers are wearing MUCH faster.

So with that being said, right now I am on the fence about what my next tire will be but if the Grapplers continue to wear as fast as they are then I will be going back to either KO2s or I'll be giving the KM3s a shot as I assume they are made of a similar compound.

In brief: the KO2's lasted much longer than the Grapplers but the wet weather traction of the KO2's was lacking compared to the Grapplers.
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Great feedback and exactly the first hand experience I've been looking for. Thanks for posting.

cmbondo, Sep 19, 2018

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