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Cooper Discoverer A/T All-Seasons any good?

I've had good luck with cooper AT3's , I never expect more than 30k out of a tire on my 3/4 ton or 1 ton diesels. Coopers are way cheaper than Toyo and wear better.
 
arse_sidewards said:
How the fuck are you getting 95k out of a tire that isn't hard as a rock?

My tires are bald by 30k at which time they have plugs and patches, a few sidewall cuts and are leaky slowly from somewhere.
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Dont know. But 2 sets now. I dont drive like an asshole but I also dont really rotate my tires like I should either. Fucking tires just seem to last and have good traction to the end
 
Stuck said:
As the title suggests Im looking for tires for the truck, its a 99 chevy 3500 crew cab. I always get them through walmart. Yes I know walmart sucks but every time Ive been on the road and had a tire issue there was a walmart nearby.

So anyways wally world has the Cooper Discoverer A/T All-Seasons 10 ply at a half decent price. Anybody run them? How do they wear? Price is right around $140 per tire for the size I run which is lower than other brands same size.

Of course the whole get what you pay for makes me curious as to quality. Ive run coopers on a truck in the past but I dont remember how they worked out.
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Sure. Probably. BFG at ko2's Suck is all I got to add. They got good snow traction bit if if you 2 year out of them before they become square you're doing good.

On my 3rd set. They suck.

Edit.: Third set under warranty. I hate these things.
 
Stuck said:
As the title suggests Im looking for tires for the truck, its a 99 chevy 3500 crew cab. I always get them through walmart. Yes I know walmart sucks but every time Ive been on the road and had a tire issue there was a walmart nearby.

So anyways wally world has the Cooper Discoverer A/T All-Seasons 10 ply at a half decent price. Anybody run them? How do they wear? Price is right around $140 per tire for the size I run which is lower than other brands same size.

Of course the whole get what you pay for makes me curious as to quality. Ive run coopers on a truck in the past but I dont remember how they worked out.
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Theyte good..so yes.good.
 
Jackie Treehorn said:
I had them on a Chevy 3500 dually and they cupped horribly with semi-regular rotations.
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Cummins 2500 guy

"Brand X's are junk. I got 2 bad ones and will never buy them again. Rotated every oil change! I'm going back to Brand Y... I got 130k out of the last set!"

[pic shows both rears perfect at 90% tread, both fronts at 40% and cupped bad enough to eat cereal off of]


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I have ran the Big O AT, which is a private label Cooper Discoverer AT3, on several vehicles. It is fine. I would not do the ATP.

I have also put the Yokohama Geolandar AT on several vehicles (including one just last week) and have had good results.

I can't stand BFG A/Ts. One of the most overhyped tires that all old men think are gold. If you want a tire as loud as them, get Goodyear Duratracs as they are much better tires. The BFGs were great in the 90s. There are much better tires out now 30 years later.
 
Duratrac’s are another tire I’ve managed to get over 60K miles out of several times. The only tire from goodyear that I even like. I put a set on my old one ton in 2012 but I don’t put enough miles on it so they are bad from weather checking not from wear.
 
I run AT3’s on my Chevys. Not my favorite tires but not terrible. I just ordered a set of General ATx for my truck.

The Coopers do not perform as well in the snow as I’d like.
 
FleshEater said:
I run AT3’s on my Chevys. Not my favorite tires but not terrible. I just ordered a set of General ATx for my truck.

The Coopers do not perform as well in the snow as I’d like.
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The generals are decent in the snow. They are rock chunking assholes though. You can leave a gravel road and hear rocks dinging for the next hour.

Snow, well, I just bought a set of these with carbide studs... Grabber™ Arctic LT

Once you have studded snows, everything else is pure garbage in the winter.
 
Chevy_man said:
The generals are decent in the snow. They are rock chunking assholes though. You can leave a gravel road and hear rocks dinging for the next hour.

Snow, well, I just bought a set of these with carbide studs... Grabber™ Arctic LT

Once you have studded snows, everything else is pure garbage in the winter.
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Aren’t the ATx’s studdable?
 
FleshEater said:
Aren’t the ATx’s studdable?
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Yes. But they also are made of a compound that won't melt above 40*.

Studs give you the grip on pure ice, but the compound and tread design are huge on packed and loose snow.
 
Chevy_man said:
Yes. But they also are made of a compound that won't melt above 40*.

Studs give you the grip on pure ice, but the compound and tread design are huge on packed and loose snow.
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Realistically any snow on top of a road is going to be slush 9x/10. In those conditions having studs and wide threads to channel the slush through count for a lot.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Realistically any snow on top of a road is going to be slush 9x/10. In those conditions having studs and wide threads to channel the slush through count for a lot.
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You either don't get cold, or you live where they have a competition to see how many vehicles they can rust out every winter.

Once it gets down to 0, -10, -20 for daytime highs, there is no slush. Just pure smooth slick roads.
 
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Chevy_man said:
Once it gets down to 0, -10, -20 for daytime highs, there is no slush. Just pure smooth slick roads.
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:shaking:

I've lived places like that. The gravel roads turn to ice. The paved roads get cleared.

Driving in power on pavement is still a rare enough thing to not really be a consideration unless you're going looking for reasons to spend $$ and coming up short in all other areas.
 
arse_sidewards said:
:shaking:

I've lived places like that. The gravel roads turn to ice. The paved roads get cleared.

Driving in power on pavement is still a rare enough thing to not really be a consideration unless you're going looking for reasons to spend $$ and coming up short in all other areas.
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Half the time they plow here just because the wind blew, not because it snowed :laughing:

We have a bit of open space though. This is where I'm working today...
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JR4X said:
Looks like Utah to me
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Montana. It's a blend of Idaho and North Dakota. So we have cold, blowing snow, deep snow, trees, plains, and cold. :smokin:

It's erratic. We have had snow already this year. The snow line in the picture is about 7000', everything lower was gone in 3 days.
 
Slight Highjack but still relevant because Cooper. Work truck, 2020 4x4 F-250 6.2 gasser superduty. Just had to have new tires put on it. The cheapest mud tires I have access to are Cooper Discoverer STT Pros. The ones removed today had 49,103 miles on them. They still had 5/32 tread or better but had a rock on a dirt road stab through the tread area on one, non reparable. Going into winter so might as well replace all of them. 285/70/17 load range E. $1,447.62 OTD.

October 2nd 2020 last year the same set of 4 was $1,151.52. #letsgobrandon 🤬
 
JR4X said:
Slight Highjack but still relevant because Cooper. Work truck, 2020 4x4 F-250 6.2 gasser superduty. Just had to have new tires put on it. The cheapest mud tires I have access to are Cooper Discoverer STT Pros. The ones removed today had 49,103 miles on them. They still had 5/32 tread or better but had a rock on a dirt road stab through the tread area on one, non reparable. Going into winter so might as well replace all of them. 285/70/17 load range E. $1,447.62 OTD.

October 2nd 2020 last year the same set of 4 was $1,151.52. #letsgobrandon 🤬
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If it makes you feel any better, I make exactly what I made in 2005.

:laughing: 😭
 
JR4X said:
I think I do too.
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I just randomly wonder- WTF did I do with that money?

2005 I owned a house worth 1/3 of current (actually less than 1/4 if we're going by appraisal) $35 water bill, $120 elec, you could get a buggy full of groceries for $100 etc. etc. etc.

... and I make the same now.

:confused:
 
45acp said:
I just randomly wonder- WTF did I do with that money?

2005 I owned a house worth 1/3 of current (actually less than 1/4 if we're going by appraisal) $35 water bill, $120 elec, you could get a buggy full of groceries for $100 etc. etc. etc.

... and I make the same now.

:confused:
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You used to be able to wheel :flipoff2:


I got out of highschool in 06 and thought $15/hr was great. Started buying parts for a wheeler. Now I'm making $35/hr and those parts are sold and no plans to build a rig. I can barely keep a dirtbike a snowmobile in parts and gas, much less spend $30k on building a wheeler and needing a $10k trailer to drag it to the trails at 8mpg with $3.50 fuel. Hell, I about puke every time I fill the 3500 to drag the camper to the lake or mountains.
 
Chevy_man said:
You used to be able to wheel :flipoff2:
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Exactly. Look at what they people who are of similar means and are that age now are doing. They're buying their first houses but there's no money left over after that for recreational projects like wheeling.
 
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