Finally got my new shoes on my Maverick + other mods

[Montana]

I feel like this Maverick gets an escort from Eagles every time it leaves the garage

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[Decayed]

Personally, there is so much information out there on these Trail Terrain style tires and they are really niche use-case. On paper they seem great but overall their hydroplane and wet performance is usually really bad which may or may not matter to you, the tread patterns are much too fine to really be useful on trail and gravel, let alone anything more rugged than that, but they usually also don't perform as well on road as a proper touring tire, and weigh more from what I have seen.

So, really, you aren't getting much of any benefit. If you intend on hardly ever going off the beaten path, it would be better to stay with a touring tire of relative quality that is just rugged enough to not pop from a slightly less rounded rock.

I ended up going with a Firestone Destination AT2 235/65/R17 and that weighs 2lbs per tire more than the OEM Continental ProContact 225/65/R17 and has been less than .4 L / 100kms distance so far in 3000kms. I went from 5.7L/100kms across 75,000kms lifetime and the same for the 5,000km trip it was on prior to purchase, to 6.1 in the 3,000 I have put on since. These feel like they are holding onto the earth with so much power, especially in the wet and gravel, where I now have to learn how to handle the truck again because everything I used to do to compensate the previous tires from making me soil myself, is now over-correcting and causing new issues that I have had to adjust because these actually grip the road, gravel, dirt, rocks, mud, whatever I have done with it so far, it has been great. My OEM tires slipped on wet grass. I have seen nothing but trouble out of Trail Terrains for what their naming suggests they can do. If you want them just for looks, that seems to be the play.

Do you work for firestone?

 

[Bil13h]

Nah not at all, I am just autistic and spent the better part of 2 months watching nothing but tire review videos from around the world and watching / reading trail reports from dozens of people that had first hand experience with the 6 options I was considering (including WildPeak TrailTerrains) and they just were not that great across the board.

By all means, if weight of the tire does not matter to you, the WildPeak AT3W or AT4W is a superior tire, and it seems the BF Goodridge K03s are insane value, BUT the weight of the tire going on was a factor for me, so I went with the Firestones

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