Most puncture resistant tire?

[doc W]

BFG

The BFG KM2 in a 255/85 is an E rated tire. I live in Texas, and ranch for a living. I spend a lot of time driving through pastures covered in mesquite trees. It is my opinion that this is by far the best tire for my application. I have run coopers, maxis, goodyears, and nittos and have been very disappointed with all of them. I am on my 4th set of km2s on a 1 ton truck that I pull 32 foot trailers with, and have gotten 45-50k miles out of each set.

On another note, the worst tire I have ever owned is the Goodyear mtr with Kevlar. I got 17k miles out of them, and they were bald.

Just my $.02!

Will chime in here and vote for the BFG. I run 265 75/R16s on 2010 FJ Cruiser wheels (7.5" wide). The BFGs wear like iron on gravel and dirt roads, not so good on ice or snow. Very little road noise when highway driving.

 

[yoopercharged]

Yep, Pro Comp, Mountain Cat, Dick Cepek, Mickey Thomson, etc, are all Cooper brands or private label tires, all made by Cooper. The "tri ply" thing is a Cooper thing, the tires made using that process, are basically made on the same type of carcass. The tread/sidewall molds, etc, differ, but as far as strength, durability in rock, cuts, etc, go they will perform close to the same.

The Pro Comp has a directional tread, has a softer tread compound, than say the STT. They will have differing wear rates, grip, etc. This thread is about tire strength, the Cooper brands that use the same type of construction, will perform very close to the same in that category.

Don't forget about Mastercraft Coursers made by Cooper too.

The Goodyear MTRs and duratracs have been performing well where I work, which is an open pit iron mine. Pit roads are made with very sharp iron shale.