Cooper Tire Review
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Cooper Tire Review
After 2 weeks, 500 miles and one epic off road adventure and these tires are finally broken in... review time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRspHiev3jA
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Okay, I used my phone and watch it.
You missed a couple points... They do chunk on rock if your crawling to the point that you are spinning and bouncing on rock. I've got 5,000 miles on my 37"x13.5-18 STT Pro tires at this point, and I do love them.
Like most mud tires, they get louder as they wear. I'm about 75% tread remaining according to my tread depth gage, I have put on about 750 off road miles, two wheeling trips that were 320 miles each way by interstate, a trip to Columbus Ohio area from Pittsburgh area with Kayaks on the roof that was about 200 miles each way and then the rest daily commuting. So around 1750-2000 miles of interstate driving, 750-ish miles of rocky off road use that includes 6 days around Ouray Colorado and 4 days at Rausch Creek in PA. The rest driving 35-45 mph to work and around town.
They handle great on the roads (26-27 PSI) in both rain and sun, they stick to rocks like glue, they are acceptable in thick mud but not like a more dedicated mud tire (Interco tires) and they do require some revs to get cleaning to work. The sidewalls are simply bulletproof! Wow. My rims are wearing off, but yet there is not a gash or scab on the sidewalls, unlike the BFG tires that looked horrible in the sidewall area.
The look is gnarly, the tread works, the compound is sticky enough yet wears decent, the sidewall tread rocks the mall parking lot like no ones business. Overall, there is no tire on the planet that I would swap out with. I have what I consider the best combination, I'll call it an Extreme All-Terrain. When these get to about 50%, I'll replace like for like.... unless someone comes out with some other revolutionary tire that can compete. For today, I feel that Cooper and the STT Pro own the crown to the best rock/mud tire on the market for street driven rigs. From what I am seeing, I'll get around 10K-15K miles on them before they move to a craigslist ad and get replaced or they would get 20K+ miles if run down fairly low. This is based on my use pattern, a good deal of heavy spinning and smoking on rocks while trying to climb things that I shouldn't be trying to climb!
You missed a couple points... They do chunk on rock if your crawling to the point that you are spinning and bouncing on rock. I've got 5,000 miles on my 37"x13.5-18 STT Pro tires at this point, and I do love them.
Like most mud tires, they get louder as they wear. I'm about 75% tread remaining according to my tread depth gage, I have put on about 750 off road miles, two wheeling trips that were 320 miles each way by interstate, a trip to Columbus Ohio area from Pittsburgh area with Kayaks on the roof that was about 200 miles each way and then the rest daily commuting. So around 1750-2000 miles of interstate driving, 750-ish miles of rocky off road use that includes 6 days around Ouray Colorado and 4 days at Rausch Creek in PA. The rest driving 35-45 mph to work and around town.
They handle great on the roads (26-27 PSI) in both rain and sun, they stick to rocks like glue, they are acceptable in thick mud but not like a more dedicated mud tire (Interco tires) and they do require some revs to get cleaning to work. The sidewalls are simply bulletproof! Wow. My rims are wearing off, but yet there is not a gash or scab on the sidewalls, unlike the BFG tires that looked horrible in the sidewall area.
The look is gnarly, the tread works, the compound is sticky enough yet wears decent, the sidewall tread rocks the mall parking lot like no ones business. Overall, there is no tire on the planet that I would swap out with. I have what I consider the best combination, I'll call it an Extreme All-Terrain. When these get to about 50%, I'll replace like for like.... unless someone comes out with some other revolutionary tire that can compete. For today, I feel that Cooper and the STT Pro own the crown to the best rock/mud tire on the market for street driven rigs. From what I am seeing, I'll get around 10K-15K miles on them before they move to a craigslist ad and get replaced or they would get 20K+ miles if run down fairly low. This is based on my use pattern, a good deal of heavy spinning and smoking on rocks while trying to climb things that I shouldn't be trying to climb!
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Okay, I used my phone and watch it.
You missed a couple points... They do chunk on rock if your crawling to the point that you are spinning and bouncing on rock. I've got 5,000 miles on my 37"x13.5-18 STT Pro tires at this point, and I do love them.
Like most mud tires, they get louder as they wear. I'm about 75% tread remaining according to my tread depth gage, I have put on about 750 off road miles, two wheeling trips that were 320 miles each way by interstate, a trip to Columbus Ohio area from Pittsburgh area with Kayaks on the roof that was about 200 miles each way and then the rest daily commuting. So around 1750-2000 miles of interstate driving, 750-ish miles of rocky off road use that includes 6 days around Ouray Colorado and 4 days at Rausch Creek in PA. The rest driving 35-45 mph to work and around town.
They handle great on the roads (26-27 PSI) in both rain and sun, they stick to rocks like glue, they are acceptable in thick mud but not like a more dedicated mud tire (Interco tires) and they do require some revs to get cleaning to work. The sidewalls are simply bulletproof! Wow. My rims are wearing off, but yet there is not a gash or scab on the sidewalls, unlike the BFG tires that looked horrible in the sidewall area.
The look is gnarly, the tread works, the compound is sticky enough yet wears decent, the sidewall tread rocks the mall parking lot like no ones business. Overall, there is no tire on the planet that I would swap out with. I have what I consider the best combination, I'll call it an Extreme All-Terrain. When these get to about 50%, I'll replace like for like.... unless someone comes out with some other revolutionary tire that can compete. For today, I feel that Cooper and the STT Pro own the crown to the best rock/mud tire on the market for street driven rigs. From what I am seeing, I'll get around 10K-15K miles on them before they move to a craigslist ad and get replaced or they would get 20K+ miles if run down fairly low. This is based on my use pattern, a good deal of heavy spinning and smoking on rocks while trying to climb things that I shouldn't be trying to climb!
You missed a couple points... They do chunk on rock if your crawling to the point that you are spinning and bouncing on rock. I've got 5,000 miles on my 37"x13.5-18 STT Pro tires at this point, and I do love them.
Like most mud tires, they get louder as they wear. I'm about 75% tread remaining according to my tread depth gage, I have put on about 750 off road miles, two wheeling trips that were 320 miles each way by interstate, a trip to Columbus Ohio area from Pittsburgh area with Kayaks on the roof that was about 200 miles each way and then the rest daily commuting. So around 1750-2000 miles of interstate driving, 750-ish miles of rocky off road use that includes 6 days around Ouray Colorado and 4 days at Rausch Creek in PA. The rest driving 35-45 mph to work and around town.
They handle great on the roads (26-27 PSI) in both rain and sun, they stick to rocks like glue, they are acceptable in thick mud but not like a more dedicated mud tire (Interco tires) and they do require some revs to get cleaning to work. The sidewalls are simply bulletproof! Wow. My rims are wearing off, but yet there is not a gash or scab on the sidewalls, unlike the BFG tires that looked horrible in the sidewall area.
The look is gnarly, the tread works, the compound is sticky enough yet wears decent, the sidewall tread rocks the mall parking lot like no ones business. Overall, there is no tire on the planet that I would swap out with. I have what I consider the best combination, I'll call it an Extreme All-Terrain. When these get to about 50%, I'll replace like for like.... unless someone comes out with some other revolutionary tire that can compete. For today, I feel that Cooper and the STT Pro own the crown to the best rock/mud tire on the market for street driven rigs. From what I am seeing, I'll get around 10K-15K miles on them before they move to a craigslist ad and get replaced or they would get 20K+ miles if run down fairly low. This is based on my use pattern, a good deal of heavy spinning and smoking on rocks while trying to climb things that I shouldn't be trying to climb!
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