OEM Tire Replacement- Your Choice for Raptor?

[SubZombie]

I'm still trying to understand some people's obsession with replacing the KO3's with something else...unless going from an AT to a MT, general consensus is that the KO3 is still the best AT as a whole package. Though I do understand if someone wants a more road-focused AT and doesn't really care about the off-road use, but for on / off road mix? Hard to beat the KO3.

Even the KO2's are still in 3rd place ranking! I'm only at 18k miles, but at this point, OEM with OEM . This is my first vehicle I've actually found the factory tires to be very good.

I agree 100%. A lot of people just like to change things and it's all mental even if they are changing to something objectively worse, which is very often the case with car modifications.

I had A/T4Ws on my last truck. The KO3s are very similar for wet traction after they break in (which takes like 2000 miles, but freshly installed the A/T4Ws did have better wet traction) but the KO3s have noticeably better grip offroad and imo they are slightly better in snow which I didn't expect at all (I just got home from a 50 mile drive in the snow). The A/T4Ws were a little quieter but they did get louder as they wore like every tire in this category. The A/T4Ws also look really bland in person, especially after the sharpness of the tread very quickly wears off, which was a step back from the A/T3Ws. The only thing I don't like about the KO3s is the unpleasent hum from the tires specifically between ~53-60mph after putting 25k miles on them. But it's still better than most all terrains (the Duratracs were fucking terrible in every way to the point of feeling dangerous after about the same amount of miles) The KO3s look good. It'd be a waste to swap to that tire, or any in the same category.

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[cc1999]

I agree 100%. A lot of people just like to change things and it's all mental even if they are changing to something objectively worse, which is very often the case with car modifications.

I had A/T4Ws on my last truck. The KO3s are very similar for wet traction after they break in (which takes like 2000 miles, but freshly installed the A/T4Ws did have better wet traction) but the KO3s have noticeably better grip offroad and imo they are slightly better in snow which I didn't expect at all (I just got home from a 50 mile drive in the snow). The A/T4Ws were a little quieter but they did get louder as they wore like every tire in this category. The A/T4Ws also look really bland in person, especially after the sharpness of the tread very quickly wears off, which was a step back from the A/T3Ws. The only thing I don't like about the KO3s is the unpleasent hum from the tires specifically between ~53-60mph after putting 25k miles on them. But it's still better than most all terrains (the Duratracs were fucking terrible in every way to the point of feeling dangerous after about the same amount of miles) The KO3s look good. It'd be a waste to swap to that tire, or any in the same category.

I changed mine because I hated the narrow tread width of the Ko3s, they are bit on the noisy side too, overall stance is paramount to me, I knew from pics alone the OE BFGs on the +55 offset wheels would have to go immediately.

I had my new +30 rims with a wider tires setting in-the garage long before the truck arrived. Lol
I had 5hr road trip to get my truck and 5hrs to get it back home, and still after 10 hours on the road immediately grabbed a jack and impact and swapped those oe wheels and tires out that same night. Within an hour of getting it home i had the stance fixed. lol

My ocd would never allow those +55 offset rims with skinny BFGs to stay a second longer then absolutely necessary. Lol

 

[MetroMatt]

What's the exact SN of these Falkens? These will be my next tires. The extra width so nice, yet same size rating! And I'm running the RTR EVO6 17x9 30mm so the extra width will be amazing.

These?

Only negative is that it is a bit heavy.

Can you post some pics with the wheels on your ride? Those are the wheels I’ve been looking at getting and haven’t found many decent pics of them on a RR.

 

[Daweism]

Can you post some pics with the wheels on your ride? Those are the wheels I’ve been looking at getting and haven’t found many decent pics of them on a RR.

All the angles you need

 

[cc1999]

All the angles you need

Very sharp looking truck.
That wheel / tire combo looks really good on there.

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