Have been advised against an LT tire for ride reasons.

I've been looking at Kenda Klever AT KR28 245 70R 16s as something a bit more targeted towards getting around muddy grass fields, and some sand dune action.

Do you happen to know if this Kenda is the same Kenda that makes mountain bike tires? The Klever came up in a search for another vehicle I own, and I wondered...

(Need tires on the Jeep, too, but mostly for highway work )

I've been looking at Kenda Klever AT KR28 245 70R 16s as something a bit more targeted towards getting around muddy grass fields, and some sand dune action.
However...
Don't know how long it will last but right now Cooper has a promotion going and giving 50-70 dollars back after purchase of a set of 4, and includes the Cooper A/T 3's. I have to admit the price difference is making me waver a bit.

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Unless you carry a full capacity load of whatever and / or tow heavy things, that's good advice. Tires of a same size being LT or Not LT, The LT will have much heavier casing / sidewall. (IE 10ply vs 4 ply) The inflation pressures and load ratings will be somewhere around double. On a commuter vehicle it will ride like a buckboard wagon and rattle your fillings loose if you have em. They are why pickups ride nice when they are loaded down or towing, but ride like trucks when empty.

If you are into rock crawling and that kind of stuff, you may want them anyway, since they have much greater sidewall strength, and are much harder to puncture when aired down.

This kind of confusion is frequently reflected by ratings of people that have shopped online without knowing this. Particularly when you see people's (very low) ratings where they have put tires on a truck and say it can't tow for beans because it has "tread squirm". Usually, this is because they bought the cheapest tires they could find that had the same numbers that were on their vehicles tires without paying attention to the LT designation on the more expensive ones.

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One more very good reason to stay away from the LT tires is weight. In any given model and size, an LT version of the tire will weight 15 to 20 pounds MORE. EACH. That's 15-20lbs each spring and shock have to control for every bump and dip in the road. It's also 60-80lbs MORE inertial rotating resistance all the way out at the end of the wheels, that has to be overcome, when you want to surprise the smart-ass kid in the next lane that keeps revving his lumpy old nova with open exhaust, while waiting for the green light.

My understanding was the mountain snowflake symbol is for a mud/snow tire, not just an all-season. All seasons tend to suck equally in all seasons, where a true mud/snow will just rock it in the slop, but might be a bit noisy or wear faster in the dry

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