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I am trying to decide whether I need to buy new tires or not. I drove by BII to work today, and I'm getting some pretty bad vibrations above 55 mph.
The tires that are currently on it are 225/75R15 Cooper Discoverer ATR. They are almost brand new as far as tread, but they were bought in 2012 or 2013 and have sat on black top and not driven. They began to loose air pressure at some point and set semi flat for a long time until I went and picked up the BII in June.
They inflate and hold air great, they have no dry rotting or cracking on the sidewalls (just slight cracking on a couple of places in the tread), but I'm afraid that they developed some bad flat spots from sitting so long.
This brings me to my current dilemma, I really like tire size of 225/75R15 on my stock BII, fills the wheel wells out good and not too big to bog the rig down. Trouble is there aren't many tire manufacturers out there still making this size......
My choices that I have been able to find are:
1) Firestone Destination AT
2) Goodyear Wrangler Trailrunner AT
3) Goodyear Wrangler SR-A (sort of an all terrain)
4) Toyo Open Country AT II (currently have these on my F150 in a larger size)
I've owned BFG, Toyo, Nitto, and Cooper in the past.
I'm looking for a fairly quiet tire that will give me good service on the road mostly and on forest roads for when I fish in the mountains. I like the Toyos I have but are extremely loud for an AT on my 16 F150. They sound like MT's on it and have about 20k miles on them.
I know 235/75R15 has a millions choices out there, but I really want to stay with the 225/75R15.
Any one with experience with the other tires?
The tires that are currently on it are 225/75R15 Cooper Discoverer ATR. They are almost brand new as far as tread, but they were bought in 2012 or 2013 and have sat on black top and not driven. They began to loose air pressure at some point and set semi flat for a long time until I went and picked up the BII in June.
They inflate and hold air great, they have no dry rotting or cracking on the sidewalls (just slight cracking on a couple of places in the tread), but I'm afraid that they developed some bad flat spots from sitting so long.
This brings me to my current dilemma, I really like tire size of 225/75R15 on my stock BII, fills the wheel wells out good and not too big to bog the rig down. Trouble is there aren't many tire manufacturers out there still making this size......
My choices that I have been able to find are:
1) Firestone Destination AT
2) Goodyear Wrangler Trailrunner AT
3) Goodyear Wrangler SR-A (sort of an all terrain)
4) Toyo Open Country AT II (currently have these on my F150 in a larger size)
I've owned BFG, Toyo, Nitto, and Cooper in the past.
I'm looking for a fairly quiet tire that will give me good service on the road mostly and on forest roads for when I fish in the mountains. I like the Toyos I have but are extremely loud for an AT on my 16 F150. They sound like MT's on it and have about 20k miles on them.
I know 235/75R15 has a millions choices out there, but I really want to stay with the 225/75R15.
Any one with experience with the other tires?