I have the Falken Wildpeaks on the Subaru Outback and have been pleased. Probably 30,000miles on so far. They work well in rain and early season snows, I switch to studded snow tires in the winter, and they are quite on the highway. They are wearing evenly as well.

Defender LTX

My 2024 Yukon came with some eco crap car tires that probably get .5mpg better mileage. When it goes in for its first oil change I'm dumping them and getting the Michelins.

tirerack.com has all the data you could ever want to read. And videos. And testing.

Discount Tire has the service you need. And prices.

If you can swing it: a top shelf name brand. Aside from some vehicles that were lost/sold earlier than expected I have never been sorry about doing this (there is risk there… if your car gets totaled/sold with relatively low miles on a $1,200 set of premium tires you don’t get your money back). But day to day there is a significant difference.

I have lived Continentals on passenger cars. Michelins on my kids GC were nice. (I would NOT buy Nitto again (too much vibration, too heavy to ballance)

I've been very happy with my Cooper Discoverer STMAXX's on my Tacoma. I'm on my 2nd set.

Nokian Outpost APT

https://na.nokiantyres.com/all...n-tyres-outpost-apt/

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:

How old is your son?

My parents never put a set of tires on any rig I owned.
However, I did buy a set for my dad once

He is 20 y.o. and will be starting his junior year in college soon.

The 4Runner is actually ‘my’ car and I am letting him borrow it for now.

He works his tail off in studying in school, and puts in the maximum number of allowable hours for a F/T student working in the admissions office (also his summer job), tutoring students and working in some aspect of alumni fundraising.

He also volunteers at a local ‘inner city’ elementary school near the college once or twice a week tutoring 5th graders in math and English.

He puts his money earned towards tuition and other expenses and is saving $’s for grad school.

Hopefully he will be successful in his professional career and will buy me a cold beer or three, or maybe even a set of tires in a show of appreciation!

He’s a magnificent son in every way and we are very proud of him!

Now back to our regularly scheduled program!

Cheers!!

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Originally posted by MNSIG:
Defender LTX

My 2024 Yukon came with some eco crap car tires that probably get .5mpg better mileage. When it goes in for its first oil change I'm dumping them and getting the Michelins.

I think some reasons the LTX comes so highly recommended in this thread, besides the quality in materials and construction, are the top ratings for Temperature and Traction, iirc I think both parameters are rated "A". That's hard to do for a tire that also has a long tread life.

Michelins are my go to tire. The mileage I get from them is exceptional.

My last truck wore Cooper Discoverers, and I got 60,000+ miles out of one set (not slicks either!) My new truck (now 2 years old came with Michelins and so far I’m very happy with them.

This is a little off topic, but a couple comments reminded me of this… We bought each of daughters their first cars. My younger daughter’s car eventually needed tires, so we bought her a new set. A few weeks later, she totaled the vehicle. So, we bought her another car, and eventually it needed new tires. A few weeks later, she totaled THAT car. (Thank God she wasn’t hurt either time) I told her I would never buy her tires again! Lol Obviously I would have, but she got married before she needed her next set of tires, so I was off the hook. ROFL