KO3 Treadwear Warranty

[Rousseb90]

29k on the truck 0 issues. What’s everyone’s tread look like on the KO3’s? Certainly not making it to the 50k that BFG lists as their treadwear guarantee.

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[Narwhal Truck Toppers]

Just over 17k miles on the truck. Have done rotations every 5k and have 8/32" on two and 11/32" on the others. I am disappointed with the tread life.

The Falkens I had on my last Raptor went 50k and still had plenty of life left. I will be going to an AT4W after these wear out, which is coming soon.

 

[Arsenall11]

Not a measurement but an observation on mine with 30k next to my sons with 400, running about 50% tread life on mine compared to his.

 

[Rousseb90]

Just over 17k miles on the truck. Have done rotations every 5k and have 8/32" on two and 11/32" on the others. I am disappointed with the tread life.

The Falkens I had on my last Raptor went 50k and still had plenty of life left. I will be going to an AT4W after these wear out, which is coming soon.

I’m probably around 3/32nd

 

[jrRaptor]

Oh I need to check mine. I do 5 tire rotations at 5k miles.

 

[clarke]

Just over 17k miles on the truck. Have done rotations every 5k and have 8/32" on two and 11/32" on the others. I am disappointed with the tread life.

The Falkens I had on my last Raptor went 50k and still had plenty of life left. I will be going to an AT4W after these wear out, which is coming soon.

Which Falkans?

 

[Narwhal Truck Toppers]

Which Falkans?

I had the AT3W C load on a Gen 2 F150 Raptor.

 

[spazzyfry123]

Just over 17k miles on the truck. Have done rotations every 5k and have 8/32" on two and 11/32" on the others. I am disappointed with the tread life.

The Falkens I had on my last Raptor went 50k and still had plenty of life left. I will be going to an AT4W after these wear out, which is coming soon.

How was road noise as the Falkens aged? I had them in the past, but didn't put a tremendous amount of miles on them before trading the truck in.

I'm happy with the 1500 miles I've put on mine, but I don't anticipate them to last long with everything I've been seeing on the K03s. It's interesting since I've heard nothing but great and fantastic with the K02s... K03s come out and I've heard nothing but bitchin'.

 

[daytoncarter]

How are y'all driving? I almost destroyed the tires on my G70 being a 3.3 twin turbo v6 with a heavy right foot in about 10k miles.

I take full responsibility, too, since the fronts are near 7/32 (like new for a sports tire) and the rears were are 4/32.

Guess 10k miles was too long to rotate it even though that was basically one oil change (7,500 mi w/ full synthetic) so I thought that'd be fine.

 

[ColeTrainsRR]

Haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary but the KO2s on my Bronco weren't bad but not as good as when I put the 35" GY Territory MTs. But the KO3s look about the same wear as my KO2s. I think next, if I go to 35s, will be Falkens

 

[AlloyPony]

We just wrapped up a review at the end of last year with the Falken A/T3W and we saw over 75k miles on those in 295/70R18 LT-E sizing on a F-250 6.7L truck. Simultaneously, I was running the Falken A/T4W in 35x12.50R18 on a separate F-250 6.7L truck and at 20k miles they were only showing 3/32 of wear at that point. Just absolutely amazing wear. In addition, they roll smooth as glass on the highway and they hook up like a cat on carpet in ANY weather conditions. Best tires I’ve ever tested in the all-terrain category and it’s not even close.

 

[daytoncarter]

We just wrapped up a review at the end of last year with the Falken A/T3W and we saw over 75k miles on those in 295/70R18 LT-E sizing on a F-250 6.7L truck. Simultaneously, I was running the Falken A/T4W in 35x12.50R18 on a separate F-250 6.7L truck and at 20k miles they were only showing 3/32 of wear at that point. Just absolutely amazing wear. In addition, they roll smooth as glass on the highway and they hook up like a cat on carpet in ANY weather conditions. Best tires I’ve ever tested in the all-terrain category and it’s not even close.

What are your thoughts on the Bridgestone Dueler A/T Ascent? I picked these out of the AT category for their superior (Tirerack tested) ice performance and consumer reported best NVH. Supposed to get them put on today.

Probably not number one for extreme off-roading, but that's not my use case anyway.

 

[1996-to-2025]

What are your thoughts on the Bridgestone Dueler A/T Ascent?

That's what I plan to go with. Also going up one size to 255/75R17. Don't have any first or second hand info, but they seem to match my use case well.

 

[daytoncarter]

That's what I plan to go with. Also going up one size to 255/75R17. Don't have any first or second hand info, but they seem to match my use case well.

Well I'll let you know how they compare to the OE Wrangler ATs. I'm going from 255/65r18 stock to 265/70r17.

Note the tread width on the 265 Bridgestone is actually narrower than the OE 255 Goodyear so you may want to verify your size choice.

 

[Lion77]

Everyone has their opinions and experiences with the KO3's, but there IS a reason for their ratings on TireRack and why Ford chose them for the Raptors:

Our First Off-Road Tire Test: All-Terrain and Max Traction/Mud Terrain

K03's were the best performer in testing. They are also the highest ranked tire by users and this is over MILLIONS of miles worth of collective use. This has been my experience. I went to an OHV park and there tons of Jeeps with all kinds of off-road tires, unless it was a maximum traction tire or something not very road friendly, the Jeeps with KO's seemed to have less trouble than many of the modded jeeps with other tires (aside from ground clearance).

My experience was similar, I had excellent traction on a variety of surfaces from watery mud (rock base / bottom, not deep thick mud), sand, rock (often with some sand on it), wet rock, dry dirt and gravel.

Sure, some tire alternatives are better at certain things, some AT's are better on-road, some have better tread life, snow or wet, but KO3's in my experience match up pretty well overall, I'm sticking with them unless something really goes bad in the next 20k from a treadwear standpoint.

At 11~12/32 with 20k on the clock (depending on front or rear), so 40~50k seems reasonable. I've only rotated them every oil change at about ~7k. They are a bit noisier than when new, but most tires I've bought have been, including the Falken Wild Peak's on the wife's AWD SUV, the Continental DWS06+ on my Mazda 3 or the Pilot Spor 4S's on my 2016 GT I had prior to the RR.

Seems to me that really, it's KO3, AT4W or the older KO2 or maybe Toyo Open Country AT 3's as a close 3rd choice. Seems to me that there are a lot more trade-off's as you go down the list.

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