Oh this fun thread! Maybe I’m an asshole to tires but these are some high mileage numbers. I put on 100-200 miles a day now 80% gravel. Last job I’d say was 40% gravel 60% interstate. I went through 3 sets of Cooper at3xlts in 2 years averaging 21,500 miles a set, thank goodness for warranty’s. KO2s don’t hold up on hard gravel nor do falkens. I do have falkens on my personal rig as they were cheap and that’s mostly a highway/hunting vehicle not fast on gravel and I do like them for that. If you had to have a tire that was the best for 40,000 miles I’d go Toyo open country or their new model one. They are expensive but reliable. Cooper stt max are good too if you can find them, I don’t care for the pros.
I’m about the same, I average about 25k on a set of tires, and am good about rotating them, but gravel kills tires, even on little pickups (always have E rated tires too or I’m getting flats regularly)
The ko2’s held up well on my wife’s tundra, over 40k, now she has the falken at3… the ko2’s were doing so good on the tundra I decided to give them another chance
Ordered e-rated ko2’s, and got 2 flats in under 2 months, and then was looking at them… c rated. Go to the tire shop, show them my receipt that I paid for e rated, so they ordered me the right tires after 5k miles of the c rated… I was commuting 400-650 miles every week working in the spring and summer, so I did get 30k on them, then they got slick at 50% tread, but still had some life, then I got a rock flat late fall and decided I will never consider them again, I have had them on 3 rigs and got flats on all of them, and was never impressed with their performance.
I don’t care much about long tire life as much as traction through the life of the tire, I wish I could find the info on what tires were not made of 2 compounds to get more life out of them, the only ones I know are the same compounds in the whole tread is nokian, but their rock proofs don’t look like they would have great traction on wet pavement
The cooper maxx hold rocks worse than any tire I have had on a small pickup, don’t seem to be as bad on full size pickups, but I couldn’t stand them. I got a set when they first came out and I sold them to my sis in law cheap after a couple weeks.
Since the cooper stt, I have been on the search, and currently have falken mt’s, and when these are toast, I will be trying the duratrac. That was the stock tire on my pickup but weren’t e rated so I didn’t trust them, but they do make my size in the e rated and they seem to have good traction in most conditions
