Cooper AT3 XLT vs Yokohama A/T G015

I will need to replace my tires in a few months, and I have narrowed my search to the above-mentioned tires, although I am open to other suggestions.

I'm wondering which would be better in the rain.

I had an epiphany and realized I drive more in the rain, even living in Phoenix, than I drive on four-wheel drive only dirt roads. I don't do any rock crawling per se.

If conditions get too difficult on a dirt road I might have to turn back (highly doubtful), but if I lose traction on a paved road in the rain, even at moderate speeds, I might get into a serious accident.

I'm curious what other people think of this reasoning.

Thanks.

P.S. As I write this it is raining like crazy in Phoenix.

 

I'd been set on Cooper AT3 XLT when my KO2s wore out.
Cooper Discoverer AT3 XLT | Discount Tire

When the time came to buy the Discount Tire employee suggested their Goodyear Wrangler UltraTerrain AT
Goodyear Wrangler UltraTerrain AT | Discount Tire

The Goodyears were $264 cheaper for the set, and if I didn't like them, I had 30 days to swap them for the Coopers.
Even though I'd never really been a Goodyear fan, I felt I'd give them a try.

I liked the way the looked and I ended up being very happy with the Goodyear tires.
The Goodyears are SL load rated as opposed to the Coopers E1, giving me a much smoother ride than even my D rated KO2s.

I've been running them for 5K miles, I feel they perform well on wet and dry roads.
Much better on wet roads than my KO2s were, they were slippery in rain.
Goodyears look nice like an AT tire should.

I went down a wet muddy road I had no business being on in a 2WD a couple of months ago.
I had no problems getting through it.

Just my 2¢.
Good luck..

 

I ran Cooper XLTs for 9000 miles. One replaced due to sidewall cracking. Two others took excessive amount of weights to balance. They felt squirrely and unsettled on highway. Fought balance and shimmy issues from day one. After the 5/6th attempt balance, at 9000 miles on them, Discount tire offered me full credit for what I paid to go towards a different tire. Took the deal and installed Falken Wildpeaks, they have been superior and I am happy with them.

Clearly I got a bad bunch of coopers, but I can't recommend them based on my experience.

 

I'm currently running the Wildpeaks. I've had zero issues and I will easily get 60K out of them. I have no idea why I'm not going to get another set of these.

 

I used to be a dead set KO2 religofile, however at the prompting of the "old coot" at the tire store i frequent in my small town. WOW!, I can tell you I drive HARD and the Coopers have been fantastco!! As aside my brother got the ToYos on his baby tundra (tacoma) and he says he likes them.
good luck

 

I really like the set of G015s I had. E load rating. Put about 45000 on them before I got rid of them. Had prob 6/32" left at that point, and they were making noise. They were very quiet and stable until that last 5000 miles or so. Drove through a lot of snow on country roads, lots of rez roads (very poorly maintained dirt - sand - rock), and the usual dry highway miles. I was very happy with them.

I had a set of the Cooper AT3 (plain version) in a C load rating. Pretty much hated those tires. They were nice the first couple of thousand miles, but after that seemed loud, squirrely on the highway, only "fair" snow performance. Definitely the least favorite of all the tires I have run.

Both the above experiences were with my old 2002 Tundra. Haven't had my new truck long enough to go through a set. First thing I did to this truck was rip off the Michelin "AT" tires (come on, who are they kidding? Those are AT-looking road tires.) and put on a set of Nokians.

 

Same here. I had 5K miles on mine, and just swapped them out at DT for the Yokohama A/T G015. The Coopers were horrible, in terms of balance/wheel shake, and the amount of weights on the wheels, in attempt to get them to work, was laughable.

 

Okay, back again, to give an update on the Yokohama A/T G015, which I had put on, after DT couldn't balance the Cooper XLTs.

The bottom line is that I can't say for sure the Coopers were the problem; it may have been the staff at the DT I bought the tires from. I say that because the Yokohamas took three different balance attempts to get the steering wheel shake 99% resolved, and the last one was by the store manager, who wasn't sure how his staff had tried to balance them the first two times. They're fine now, with the 1% shake only coming after the truck has sat for a couple of days, and going away quickly.

The saga was pretty ridiculous:

• Took the truck in to get the Coopers balanced, for the third time.
• While balancing, the employee scratched all 4 of my Fuel wheels, and the steering wheel still shook, with no improvement.
• DT replaced my wheels, but one of the 4 came in scratched, due to mishandling during shipping. Had it installed anyway, with new Geolanders.
• DT replaced the scratched wheel.
• Took it back to get the wheels rebalanced, as there was still steering wheel shake. Rebalance was done by an employee that has a lifted Tundra.
• Took it back again, to get the wheels rebalanced, after the store manager said he would do the work himself, and if it didn't work, DT would pay to have the tires balanced elsewhere. DT also pulled a nail out of the passenger rear tire, and patched the tire.
• Patch didn't work, tire was flat three days later, when I went out to drive the truck. Asked the store manager if they could just replace the tire, and he said yes.
  
• Had tire replaced.

Knock on wood, everything seems to be good, and I appreciate the way DT handled this. That being said, it shouldn't have been this hard to get a decent set of tires, and I honestly can't say the reason the Coopers couldn't be balanced was the tires; it could have been the DT employees.