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Falken Wildpeaks are often compared to Duratracs. Those tires are also what I'm planning to replace my Duratracs with after they wear down (which is no time soon I hope). We've been hit with an early winter here (unfortunately). Temperatures haven't been too bad yet but we've had about 6-7 snowfalls. So far my opinion on the Duratracs in winter is pretty good. I think they do well driving in snow but not that great on ice, which I was expecting. Once the temperatures start to really drop (-20's/30's) will be the real test for me.
Nice! I haven't put my Wildpeaks through snow yet...will be doing that soon. But off road traction has been great. I have the standard P rated ones.
Yeah I live up in the NT so I'll definitely put it thru its paces. My old Yoda pickup had Toyo Open Country AT's on them and I never really had any issues except on ice because the truck is so light. With the WIldpeaks I'm expecting much of the same, but hopefully a bit better as my Open Country's weren't snow rated. It's interesting you say that they're similar to Duratracs. From what I've seen around the forums the Coopers were much more of a direct comparison.
Snow in Vegas? Or more likely, whereabouts do you go to run thru some snow? Lake Tahoe? Is that close by? I'm sure you have plenty of places to test out its off road handling so that's good info.
Hehe no snow in Vegas but Mount Charleston is only 20 minutes away from here and when it snows...it's like New England up there, plus they only have the resources to plow once per day when it's snowing lol. Haven't been to Tahoe yet though.
Sorry, let me clarify some more. Duratracs are often compared to many other AT tires, probably KO2's the most from what I see, but the same type of questions come up on other forums like "Duratrac vs Wildpeak". I pay closer attention to people who have used both and most of those guys say that they liked both sets of tires, performance is very similar, but for the price difference alone they would choose Wildpeaks. I personally haven't used Wildpeaks before but the reviews on the tires are mostly positive (same for Duratrac). I have used KO2's and those were good as well but some odd reason (maybe bad luck) I kept getting all sorts of nails and screws in the KO2's and had to constantly plug them. I don't think you can go wrong with any of them to be honest but for the price difference the Wildpeaks landed on my radar and will be my choice based on price difference alone.
Nice! Bet they would make it feel like you're on dry pavement if you weighed down the bed a little lol.
Ahh I gotcha now. Yeah you're right I guess most people just compare AT's all around. I got a bit too specific with comparing ride/tread/look in which Duratrac's definitely are more closely compared to KO2's. From what I've read around the forums though the most popular and maybe therefore "best" AT's are KO2's, Duratrac's, Wildpeaks and Ridge Grappler's. At the end of the day I can't speak to any of them other than KO2's (on my brother's 4th Gen).
My coworker has the KO2s on his 4th gen too...he says there's good wet/off road traction but the snow traction isn't that great...more like budget all season tires.
