Best 5 Truck Tires 2020 Staff Picks

What's going on guys? Fuller here from Custom Offsets, Custom Offsets TV. We got another tire lineup video. This time, it's the top five, I don't know what we're gonna call this, top five staff picks, top five Custom Offsets picks, top five tires that we like the most in our particular order. That's what it's gonna be. So, we're actually gonna start with, kind of, I guess it's not necessarily a newer tire, it's just a tire that we haven't featured very much and it's the Kenda Cleaver RT. So, by the name, you can assume that that's gonna be a hybrid tire, so we're gonna combine the best of the all-terrain platform and the mud-terrain platform and throw it in the Kenda Cleaver RT. So, Brad actually just ordered a set for his truck, so he's gonna test these things out. But, I really like the tread design and what they got going on with the siping here and the sidewall. This just reminds me of a race truck tire. If you've ever heard of the Cranin International Raceway or seen the trophy trucks, the Pro 2, Pro 4 trucks that run out there, this reminds me a ton of what they run just because of the sidewall design here. It's very, very like Baja-styled and they also have the Kenda logo on the side raised up in black letters, so that's pretty slick. It's not just like very flat like the rest of the tire. So, looks really cool and probably the best part about it is in a 35x12.5 R20, which is the size that I'm gonna use to compare all of these, not saying that these are 35x12.5 20s, but just for comparison's sake, they're under $900 for the set of four and that includes free shipping. So, pretty insane deal that you can get 35x12.5 20 for under 900 bucks in comparison to the rest of the prices that we'll run through in a little bit. One thing to note on the side of these tires is because of the way they have the tread blocks on the very edge here, kinda cut and scooped out, it does have a little bit more of a rounder appearance on the edge as compared to some of the other tires, a little more square. So, just one thing to look at if you're considering these as your next tire. The siping on here, there's plenty of it, there's a lot of it, but it is very straight lines that you just like to see a little more jaggedness in there if you're gonna be running it in the snow or anything like that. But as far as gravel, sand, mud, rocks, this should have absolutely no problems with that. It does have the stone ejectors in between the shoulder blocks on the side as well. So, any sort of debris should not get stuck in this tire, should fling out absolutely just fine. So, like I said, Brad's gonna run those and test them out. I'm really excited to see how they do and that's why I made the list for our top five picks. There isn't a mileage warranty on these things, but they do carry a full manufacturer's warranty and another really cool feature is that they go all the way up to a load range F in that 35 by 12 and a half. So, if you are somebody who does a lot of towing or you have a heavy duty truck, this is definitely an option for you. Brad has a 2500, that's what they're going on. Then we jump to the Toyo Open Country AT2. This tire has been out for a while, so obviously this is the second version of it. So, they redesigned it and made it even better. And there's rumors that an AT3 will be coming out sometime. However, I know they're in the very, very beginning stages of it. Actually got a chance to tour the Toyo facility and they explained to me what's going on with the new tire. So, it's still gonna be a while for the new one, but they're gonna listen to some of the feedback we provided them, which was pretty much make the shoulder, or the sidewall of the tire, excuse me, more aggressive. The tread pattern itself has a lot of cuts and angles going on where the tread actually does look relatively aggressive. The outside voids here on the side are very deep, very wide, and they kind of tighten up a little bit in the middle. So, basically you're reducing road noise there. If this is a tire that you're gonna throw on your everyday driver, it's something that's gonna be more quiet for you, but still offers a decent amount of traction if you do occasionally go down the gravel roads and stuff like that. One of the things that they do to make this tire more stable for the road is they include these little tie bars, which are on the very ends of the tread blocks. You kind of see that the tread comes down and then these tie bars shoot out towards the next tread block. So, basically they're taking the weight that's sat on these tires when they're on your vehicle and kind of more evenly distributing it across the tire. So, that helps stability because these tread blocks aren't moving or flexing under high speed. If you're driving on the highway at 80 miles an hour, it's perfectly acceptable on these tires. And at the same time, cornering performance and everything like that is also retained because of these tie bars. And it helps with wear because, like I said, since you're more evenly distributing the load that's on this tire, you won't run into any sort of irregular wear problems, which is nice. As far as siping goes on here, too, there is a ton of it, plenty of zigzag patterns. So, in the snow, these actually are a pretty capable tire. It's not gonna beat out on a true winter tire. However, if you're just looking to run one set of tires year round, this is a great option if you don't wanna step up to something more aggressive like a mud tire or even these hybrid tires if you wanna stick to the all-terrain. Like I said, only complaints is gonna be that sidewall doesn't look quite as aggressive as we'd like, but there are different versions out there. So, you'll see there's a, I believe it's XT or XL designation, that's gonna have a, the sidewall's like raised, the rubber's raised up more. So, it sticks out a little bit further, looks a little bit more aggressive. But this is available in a ton of different sizes, all the way, like as low as 15 inch, all the way up to 22. So, they've got an application out there for everything and also, the important thing to know on here as far as when you're shopping for them, you might find a load E and that's gonna be around the $1,500, $1,600 range, but then they also do make this in a load F. So, if you're going to put them on a 2,500 or 3,500, a three-quarter ton truck, you're gonna wanna make sure you get the load range F, those are a bit more expensive, right around the $1,700 range, in a 35, 12 and a half for a set of four with the pre-shipping. That load range F is also a 12-ply tire, so that's pretty neat and they include a 50,000 mile warranty. Some of the smaller sizes go up to 65,000, but on the big boys that are most common that we see, you're gonna be getting that 50,000 mile warranty, which is pretty rare when you get into huge tires that have this aggressive of a tread pattern going on. Next tire, this is the Toyo Open Country RT and I'm actually gonna talk a little bit about both of these. So, this is the Ridge Grappler from Nitto, this is the RT from Toyo. They're very, very similar tire because Nitto and Toyo are sister companies, which you've probably heard us talk about before. We have a full video that breaks down the comparison between these two, but to kind of go over some of the features, the RT used to be a little bit behind the Ridge Grappler, but now they've actually included more sizes. You can still get this in an F-load, just like you can get the Ridge Grappler in an F-load. Size-wise, they're about the same as far as applications go. And one thing nice about both Nitto and Toyo is that they do run true to size, so you're getting exactly what you pay for there. Toyo Open Country RT is built on the mud tire platform, whereas the Ridge Grappler is built on the all-terrain tire platform. So you're gonna see this is a three-ply sidewall, and this is a two-ply sidewall. So some small differences there, which is why you see a little bit difference in price as well. The RT comes with a mileage warranty, and the Ridge Grappler does not come with a mileage warranty. So again, just a couple of things that kind of offset the different costs on these two. Tread-wise, fairly similar. Obviously, just kind of style designs, but lots of rubber contact here with not a ton of siping. So if you're doing a little bit more off-roading and you want these big blocks and big separations on the side, they both have stone ejectors. They're both gonna get you through anything just fine. The RT sidewall is a little bit less aggressive, just kind of some pointy triangle-looking shapes on there. If you jump up to the Ridge Grappler, you actually have two sidewall options. So there's a more aggressive and a less aggressive. You'll see that one side kind of has some square indents on the sidewall, and the other side is just kind of straight up and down, more similar to that Baja-style tire that you may have seen on some sort of race vehicle. Price comparison between the two, on the Ridge Grapplers and the 35x12.5, you're looking just over $1,500, and on a 35x12.5 Toyo Open Country RT, you're looking at just over $1,600. Last on the list is a tire you've definitely heard me talk about before. This is the Goodyear Wrangler Dura-Trac. And the reason why I mention it in so many videos is because I had an opportunity to drive on these for a very long time in many different situations, and they just perform very well. Other than they can be a little bit noisy on the road, but if you're willing to sacrifice some of the noise, you can have a tire that performs very well both off-road and in the snow. These things are just an absolute beast. But you do pay for that. So on a 35x12.5, it's gonna be a little bit over $1,600. So it is a decently costly tire, as compared, I guess, to some of the other ones. You're paying just as much for this, and it is a little bit louder. So it's the biggest downfall that we hear people complain. But they come pre-drilled for studs, they got all these little extra, I don't even know what to call these, the inner tread biter things. I don't know what they call them, but it's something like that. So you basically get all this little extra grip where if you pack this thing in deep mud or in deep snow, you get all these little extra grippy pieces. They're gonna help push you forward. Tons of siping on here, very jagged. It's got some deep tread wells in here. So it gets you through literally pretty much anything. You can air these things down too. We ran them as low as eight pounds of pressure in each tire and they perform flawlessly. So super impressed with this tire. Always handles very well for me in the situations that I put it in, which is why it makes the list of top five. So let us know if we missed any, if there's any tires out there that you think should be in the top five. Otherwise, if you wanna check these out, get the full specs as far as revolutions per mile and how much they weigh and everything else that you could ever wanna know. You got all those details at customoffsets.com. Think that's it.