wyocountrykid
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Hello everyone, Ive been a lurker on this forum for quite some time now and Ive acquired an abundance of knowledge by reading through this forum and others. I am a avid researcher and much thought goes into everything before I purchase. I use many peoples thoughts, opinions and reviews for myself so I figure its about time I give some reviews of my own.
I recently purchased some Cooper STT PROs for my truck a 2011 f150. They are 295 70 18 (34x11.5). I am becoming a fan for cooper tires as I use them more. I had the st maxx on a work truck that is mainly driven on dirt roads in the oil fields of wyoming. The maxx were great tires on my work truck and they were my tire of choice (planned out months ahead) to put on my personal truck when my NITTOs wore out. Then cooper came out with the pros and after much debate with myself I decided to skip the MAXX and be the guinea pig for these tires.
My wife and I had been planning a road trip with our truck and I had the tires put on the day before we left. We left from wyoming and went to Vernal Utah that evening. After grabbing something to eat we made our way to Dinosaur National Monument. We camped at the confluence of the Yampa and Green River. We drove out of Dinosaur National Monument on dirt road at a fairly brisk speed (around 50 miles of dirt road). The roads in this area are basically the natural dirt plowed into a road with very little gravel on most of the roads we were on, the dirt was rutted from the rains this year going from loose sandy sections to hard packed clay . The tires did well on the dirt roads. We hit highway again and set our sights on the city of Montrose. The tires did good on the road for such an aggressive tread. To give something to compare against my previous tires on this truck have been General Red letter grabbers, and Nitto Trail Grapplers. Ive had two sets of trail grapplers on different trucks and i love this tire. It is a great tire. Going off of my ear decibel meter, the PROS are about the same loudness as the trail grapplers. I cannot tell a difference between the two tires. Now they are louder then the MAXX's Ive had on my work truck and louder than the new ******** Cepek Fun Country's I have now on my work truck. But it is to be expected as the tires are much more aggressive. We drove through a down pour on our way to montrose and the tires did well. I never felt the truck wander through the standing water on the road. I will add right now that the siping of this tire is one of the reasons I thought i should give it a try. It is also lighter than other tires in the same category, I thought I might gain a few MPG with dropping a few lbs but I did not. My overall MPG has stayed the same.
We then went to Ouray and started on the Alpine loop. It was rainy and the trail was a combination of mud and wet rocks. I had aired down to 25 psi and the tires were great. My wife and I were glad to had good tires when looking off the muddy shelf roads of Engineer pass. We did most of the Alpine loop after Engineer pass, Lake City to Silverton via Cinnoman Pass, Ouray up to Yankee boy basin then to telluride via Imogene Pass, then Ophir Pass back to 550. The roads there were loose rocks, rock ledges, gravel, mud and some pavement. There was rain off and on that kept everything slick. The tires were great in all aspects of the trip.
We hit 550 aired back up and went to Durango, hit Mesa Verde, and Monument Valley. We headed for St George and stopped at the Coral Pink Sand Dunes. The tires dig, there was no floatation on the sand. Ive had my trail grapplers and some terra grapplers on the St Anthony dunes in Idaho and they didnt dig this much. I should point out that none of these times I out trying to climb the dunes with the truck, my PSI was never adjusted and it was just around to the edge of the dunes to unload a motorcycle or maybe a quick blip over a hill or two to a camp fire. Nothing that you would try in a rail or a quad. But anyway the STT PROS dig in the sand and highway PSI.
The rest of the trip was highway back home. In conclusion I am pleased with the new tire. It handled a variety of terrain and obstacles very well. I will say that this tire a bit to aggressive for pure highway miles but it not marketed as a highway tread. I choose the PROS over all terrains with the theory of "Its better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it". I may gain a couple MPG if I were to switch to something like a KO2 or Toyo open country extremes. But until then I am really liking these tires. Next test will be the snow. And that shouldnt be too far off here in wyoming.
I recently purchased some Cooper STT PROs for my truck a 2011 f150. They are 295 70 18 (34x11.5). I am becoming a fan for cooper tires as I use them more. I had the st maxx on a work truck that is mainly driven on dirt roads in the oil fields of wyoming. The maxx were great tires on my work truck and they were my tire of choice (planned out months ahead) to put on my personal truck when my NITTOs wore out. Then cooper came out with the pros and after much debate with myself I decided to skip the MAXX and be the guinea pig for these tires.
My wife and I had been planning a road trip with our truck and I had the tires put on the day before we left. We left from wyoming and went to Vernal Utah that evening. After grabbing something to eat we made our way to Dinosaur National Monument. We camped at the confluence of the Yampa and Green River. We drove out of Dinosaur National Monument on dirt road at a fairly brisk speed (around 50 miles of dirt road). The roads in this area are basically the natural dirt plowed into a road with very little gravel on most of the roads we were on, the dirt was rutted from the rains this year going from loose sandy sections to hard packed clay . The tires did well on the dirt roads. We hit highway again and set our sights on the city of Montrose. The tires did good on the road for such an aggressive tread. To give something to compare against my previous tires on this truck have been General Red letter grabbers, and Nitto Trail Grapplers. Ive had two sets of trail grapplers on different trucks and i love this tire. It is a great tire. Going off of my ear decibel meter, the PROS are about the same loudness as the trail grapplers. I cannot tell a difference between the two tires. Now they are louder then the MAXX's Ive had on my work truck and louder than the new ******** Cepek Fun Country's I have now on my work truck. But it is to be expected as the tires are much more aggressive. We drove through a down pour on our way to montrose and the tires did well. I never felt the truck wander through the standing water on the road. I will add right now that the siping of this tire is one of the reasons I thought i should give it a try. It is also lighter than other tires in the same category, I thought I might gain a few MPG with dropping a few lbs but I did not. My overall MPG has stayed the same.
We then went to Ouray and started on the Alpine loop. It was rainy and the trail was a combination of mud and wet rocks. I had aired down to 25 psi and the tires were great. My wife and I were glad to had good tires when looking off the muddy shelf roads of Engineer pass. We did most of the Alpine loop after Engineer pass, Lake City to Silverton via Cinnoman Pass, Ouray up to Yankee boy basin then to telluride via Imogene Pass, then Ophir Pass back to 550. The roads there were loose rocks, rock ledges, gravel, mud and some pavement. There was rain off and on that kept everything slick. The tires were great in all aspects of the trip.
We hit 550 aired back up and went to Durango, hit Mesa Verde, and Monument Valley. We headed for St George and stopped at the Coral Pink Sand Dunes. The tires dig, there was no floatation on the sand. Ive had my trail grapplers and some terra grapplers on the St Anthony dunes in Idaho and they didnt dig this much. I should point out that none of these times I out trying to climb the dunes with the truck, my PSI was never adjusted and it was just around to the edge of the dunes to unload a motorcycle or maybe a quick blip over a hill or two to a camp fire. Nothing that you would try in a rail or a quad. But anyway the STT PROS dig in the sand and highway PSI.
The rest of the trip was highway back home. In conclusion I am pleased with the new tire. It handled a variety of terrain and obstacles very well. I will say that this tire a bit to aggressive for pure highway miles but it not marketed as a highway tread. I choose the PROS over all terrains with the theory of "Its better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it". I may gain a couple MPG if I were to switch to something like a KO2 or Toyo open country extremes. But until then I am really liking these tires. Next test will be the snow. And that shouldnt be too far off here in wyoming.
