Jumping on the Cooper AT3 bandwagon......

[WyoCherokee]

sounds like a blancer problem. i ran two set of AT3's and got 67,000 and 64,000 miles per set on my diesel. Great tire,always blanced, smooth rolling. only reason i went with the STT's was for a more aggressive tire.

 

[Mickey Bitsko]

I drive 28 mi round trip every day to/from work in my Lexus GX470. If I was looking for a dedicated offroad tire, the AT3's would have been near the bottom of the list. Rather, I wanted something good for commuting, good on the beach (OBX), and could do light/medium offroad work.

Re Escalade tires, probably look to their Xeon line or whatever it's called - not the Discoverer line.

Escalade, metaphorically speaking..

 

[Dake21]

After 30,000 miles ish I have 50% thread left. The traction is great but im not impressed but how quick they were. They are also very noisy and sounds like all my wheel bearing are bad lol

 

[canuck 1]

use to love them but the last 2 sets will not balance or stay balanced

 

[99Discovery]

50% tread left after 30k is a 60k tire. That's not bad at all, especially if you off-road it.

I have two sets of Cooper ATPs (this is Discount Tire's "exclusive" rebranded AT3 so they don't have to price-match). Both in Load E. One set is daily driven on our suburban, the other is on the Disco. Obviously I bought them for the dollar value, requiring Load Range C or higher for sidewall strength (my P-rate Micheleans had horrible off-road traction and the sidewall gave up the ghost on a mild forest trail).

I've found them to perform adequately and for the $$ I was considering them a replacement for my 2500HD pickup tires, but now you guys have me all-sorts of concerned... .


The BIGGESTS issue I've noticed is noise. The "whump whump* reminded me of the old Goodyear Wrangler (now Duratrac) 31x12.50s on my old ZJ. They started making noise on the Disco first and I thought it was a wheel bearing (not good, with the unnatural amount of torque required (and thus a very expensive wrench) for a D2 wheel bearing! Then I got behind the family Suburban and notice the same noise.

Now I just deal with it......because I"m too cheap to pay extra for the STT-Max or the Duratracs.

Not sure what I'll put on the truck now, ATPs were a lock......maybe I'll just win this competition and get me some STTs for it...