New Cooper All Terrain ATW

[REDrum]

I drive a lot.... I live in the mountains of Idaho at 5,100 feet. We average 300 inchs of snow at 6,000 feet and I spend a lot of time going back and forth up and down mountains.

I know a few guys with ATWs and have tested them on snow a bit. VERY good snow biased AT but not snow tires. Similar to Nokian WR. Fine for year round used here in southern New England. But for your 300" of annual snow I'd strongly recommend you consider a real snow tire. I'm very partial to Nokian but Firestone Winterforce are a hard to beat value.

 

[cdthiker]

Hi all, thanks for the response.
I just put my snow tires on the other day and while they are for sure the way to go I admit its a real pain to swap them twice a year. Not to mention the added expense.
This is my second winter on this set ( Hankook I pike r11) We shall have to see how well they hold up. If I could get three or four winters out of a set of snows I would most likely make it a regular thing.

However, Id like a AT that I can run year round as needed. The first three winters on my DanaPros it was fine but they just got too hard to be worth much of anything in the snow by winter 4.

Does any one have miles they have gotten out of their ATWs? If I was made of cash id run a a solid AT and then Nokian Happa's in the winter on the truck. This year the new Nokians went on my wifes car.

Thanks for the responses

 

[sobiloff]

I've put about 14K miles on them now. I was worried how well they'd do over the hot summer here in Reno; they've got somewhere around 11-12/32" left right now (new they come with 16/32"), so roughly I'm using about 1/32" every 3K miles. I replace tires when they get down to 4/32" (or 5/32" if it's a snowy winter), so it looks like I'm only going to get 33-36K miles out of them. (For comparison, I got 40K miles out of my OEM Michelin LTX A/T2s.)

However, they perform so much better than the Michelins I don't mind the shorter life!

I've taken a couple of chunks out of the tread blocks using too much throttle over some of the rocky trails around here, but no big deal.

I haven't seen anything else out there that can compete with the A/TWs for my use.

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Blake Sobiloff
Reno, NV (USA)
2013 F-250 Diesel 4x4 Short Bed Crew Cab
2008 KTM 690 Enduro