tires, tires, tires, tires.... ugh

mrneen · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:32 pm

i am on a budget and i have decided on either one of these tires...

1. Toyo open country LT 225/75/16 Load D

2. Mastercraft Courser AT2 LT 225/75/16 Load E

and

3. Kumo KL78 LT 225/75/16 Load D

I think i am leaning towards the toyos... i like the tread pattern. however i have heard alot of people run the kumos on here. i am leaning Ginst the mastercraft because i just went threw a set of 235/70/16 within 30,000 miles... rated for 50,000....

i would rather stick to a Load D... dont want to be too stiff on the highway and over the bumps on normal roads. and etc.

any pointers on these tires? or reviews?

thanks everyone... also for putting up with my stupid questions. haha

mrneen · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:16 pm

anyone have feed back on these?

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:25 pm

I ran some Mastercraft on my old Cherokee, did good rode good made by Cooper

Kumhos KL78s had a set of 255-70s on the KJ for a while. Put about 24000 on them and still had way over half tread. Were very quiet, handled great, did good in snow, mud not so much but got me around pretty good anyways
I sold them due to getting tired of looking at them and a great deal on another bigger set :wink:

for the money a good tire

cluelessklewer · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:49 pm

im with tom... i sell alot of the kumhos and have heard alot of good things about them, and if it were my personal vehicle and those were my choices, it would definitely be the kumhos on the kj

mrneen · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:33 am

would the kumho's be able to stand some trail riding, and light mud?

i live in rhode island and we do have winter weather and during the summer i like to explore the woods...

also, mastercraft courser at2 right now. you think the Kumhos are better than those... traction wise?

thanks

cluelessklewer · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:02 pm

I think the kumhos will do just fine

tommudd · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:19 pm

Not sure if you can wheel Kumhos or not :shock:

Have more somewhere going through some mud and water/mud so yes for light wheeling they will do fine :wink:

mrneen · **Posted:** Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:46 pm

tommudd wrote:

Not sure if you can wheel Kumhos or not :shock:

Have more somewhere going through some mud and water/mud so yes for light wheeling they will do fine :wink:

haha thanks tommudd.... def got me thinking towards those. you think a LT225/75/16 Load D would work for me?

i now have P230/75/16. i want a thicker ply tire.. E ply kinda to stiff for me...

or should i just stay with 235/70?

mrneen · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:50 pm

anyone else have a input on these tires? i think i am going to make my purchase next week or so

JimKJSVT · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:13 am

Have you given consideration/looked at any of these 3?

http://dynaproatm.hankooktire.com/
http://www.herculestire.com/catalogHerc ... -part1.pdf
http://www.nokiantires.com/tyre?id=1195 ... iiva+A%2FT

I don't know if the load rating is a deal breaker for you, but Hercules and Nokian are both E rated. The Hankooks are 10 ply which tire rack corresponds to E rated also.

mrneen · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:12 pm

JimKJSVT wrote:

Have you given consideration/looked at any of these 3?

http://dynaproatm.hankooktire.com/
http://www.herculestire.com/catalogHerc ... -part1.pdf
http://www.nokiantires.com/tyre?id=1195 ... iiva+A%2FT

I don't know if the load rating is a deal breaker for you, but Hercules and Nokian are both E rated. The Hankooks are 10 ply which tire rack corresponds to E rated also.

i like the tread pattern of the hankook... what does the XL mean??

TAHOE · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:26 pm

I have the Toyos on my Tahoe, pretty happy with them. I got around 16-19K on them, probably get 35-40 out of them. I can say they are horrible on wet grass, but decent overall.
Dont know a thing about the others.

JimKJSVT · **Posted:** Sat Sep 05, 2009 1:56 am

I haven't been here for a while. See below for XL load
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/tirespecskey.jsp
Basically an XL rated tire can handle greater load than a P rated equivalent if you put more air into it. It is in between a P rated tire and a C rated LT tire.

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