Awesome review of the ko2’s… I’m on the fence between those and Wildpeaks.
Everyone says the Falken Wildpeaks are top of the line..
can’t make up my mind.
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Hmm.
Well take a look at what they weigh in the size you're looking at - the Falkens might be a few pounds heavier.
There was once a rumor (About a year ago) floating around about Falken changing the rubber compound. No idea if that's true, no idea.
What I can, just in case it helps (And the original poster might chime in with his KO2 exp too!):
The toyo AT2s on my old rebel were slip and slides in the rain once it got cold. My theory is that when it got cold the rubber hardened, and they would slip. Going up a steep hill once I went as slow as I could and I stopped climbing the hill - and this is like a 25mph residential road in a basic rain storm. I snapped. At "great expense" on a leased vehicle I went with the KO2s.
They needed to be road-force balanced, but I can say in a few snow storms they were AWESOME. We had one where the roads weren't plowed at all, and I could basically drive as fast as I wanted to. I may or may not have been doing 40 and I had great perfect traction.
The sidewalls were stiff at first when new, and on the "mushy" side when old, and the traction was so darn good over those 22,000 miles that I was impressed. Real impressed. I've heard that as those tires get old they can get a little loud, and they don't evacuate water as well. Old being like 36,000 miles. Some say otherwise. I think I was going to get about 40,000 out of the tires before replacing them.
Even knowing they're "Expensive", they have to be road force balanced, and all that? I still think about going back to them. I really do.
The Toyo AT3s I'm running now were designed looking at Falken's AT3Ws and Cooper's AT3s as well. The Toyos are pretty good, strong sidewalls, great lateral grip (probably the best) in hot weather. They feel like a different tire than the AT2s I hated.
When they lose traction (in the wet/cold) the truck's rear end doesn't seem to fish around left and right, it tracks straight. It's "predictable" when it loses traction. The Toyo AT3s have been good, I think I have a snow storm under their belt, if my memory serves me correctly. BUT.
Again. I'm tempted. Some say the KO2s are "over-rated". I think that's nonsense, I think they're the best gripping rubber overall, and I'll include a set of General Grabbers and Dueler Revo 2s in that bunch I ran on the Toyota before the Rams.
Just to note: I do think the duratracs are "under" rated, I do. They aren't bad, I replaced them because I was curious.
My working theory about tires right now: The "harder" rubber tires that last longer, don't quite grip as well. I like the Toyo AT3s, I do, due to their tread design blah blah blah blah, HOWEVER, No i don't think the BFG rubber was beat. The softer rubber on the KO2 sidewalls made them "mushier" than the Toyo AT3s.
I think that The "softer" rubber tires that do grip well (and due to that softness, grip in the cold a little better) but don't last as long. I think there's no free lunch here. That's just my opinion. Me? I'll take traction every time.
I do think you could flip a coin and love either though. Hard to go wrong with good tires, and to me a "3PMSF" rated tire is a must, both these tires are.