Gen 3 Cooper at 3 tires
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Offroadmuch
Explorer
I am seriously considering that exact tire for my Gen 3. I am a little concerned about tire noise for whatever I end up with as my wife likes to drive in my car more and more. I don't want her to stay away due to road noise. I have heard that the unibody transmits noise more on these. Anyone using Coopers? And not to hijack, but anyone using a good all terrain with low noise?
I had these same tires on my gen one and hardly any road noise. That being said I might not have been able to hear them over all the rattles and everything else that truck had going on. I had the older Cooper St tires on my 80 series and they were pretty loud but that was a more aggressive tire. I really want to believe it's the unibody transmitting the noise. Don't get me wrong it's not that loud but I notice it. Also this is my 3 rd set of Cooper tires and my wife has coopers on her car never had a single problem and wear like iron.
Schitzangiggles
King of Macastan
I run the Cooper AT3 on my work truck and my '01 Montero LTD and put on a bit over 150-200 miles a day and they are NOT like noisey water balloons. I like them enough that if they made them in a 19.5 rim size I'd run those on my wife's truck. Most of my coworkers have been suitably impressed that all but 3 of them have asked for and gotten them on their work trucks and half of those guys have since put them on their POV's. The driving is a mixture of city, highway and offroad/gravel roads in mountains going to cabins and such. So far the only guys having to chain up are the trucks not running the AT3's. I run the 235/85r16 on my Monty and my work truck.
So yeah, Cooper tires suck.
So yeah, Cooper tires suck.
coffeegoat
Adventurer
I have the toyo open country at2 on my rig and like them so far, road noise is negligible. Haven't done any off road with them yet but they handle the road wet dry and snowy really well.
Sharky1528
Observer
Really like my Discoverer S/T MAXX™ !!! Mounted and Balanced out Nice...
Offroadmuch
Explorer
How is the noise, any other tires to compare it to on your Montero?
jeep-N-montero
Expedition Leader
I have nothing but praise for the a/t3's, ran them in the 235/85r16 size on my diesel Silverado for 3.5 years until I sold it, zero issues even with taking it backcountry hunting and fishing on some crazy rough roads and towing the boat about 4k miles per year. If my Yukon didn't already come with new tires I would have had a set of a/t3's installed on it as well. Very quiet to the point that my wife would fall asleep within 15 minutes of getting on the road for a trip, man I miss my truck.
offthepath
Adventurer
I have the ATW (which I think is just like the AT3 but only sold at Discount) on my gen 3. There is some noise, not loud, but noticeable. I only have maybe 8k miles, but so far have really liked the tires. The last few snow storms they have performed very well.