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Some Nittos don't have full-depth siping. For me, and the rain I drive in, that's a deal breaker, so I would confirm the Nittos you're looking at have that, at least.

 

I'm currently about 90% confident I'm going with the Toyo OC AT3 tires. Here are my thoughts

The Toyos are proven, are lightweight, have great reviews with the exception of some comments about snow. It rarely snows here in Houston and when it does, we don't go anywhere. But it does rain - a lot. So wet traction is important and the Toyos seem to do well in wet.

The Nittos look great and I like that they are XL load rated. But they are unproven. Not sure I want to be the test mule.

The Falkens look good but I am somewhat jaded by my experience with the stock size AT3W (Japan made). They started out great and i have rotated them every ~7k miles. However, every tire has significant heel toe wear at 25k miles on them. Meaning the outside and inside edge blocks are now shaped like sawteeth on all 4 tires. Higher in the front, than the back (or vice versa - can't remember right now) of each block. They are making a terrible whomp, whomp sound on smooth roads. This could be from running too high pressure but I only run them at 36 psi, so it is not excessively high and my rotations have been front to back - which could contribute. No suspension / ball joint problems either.

Going forward, I will be rotating every 5k in a cross pattern to change tire direction no matter what tires I get.

 

I hadn’t heard of it before. At 37 lbs it’s 2 pounds lighter than the stock Dunlops. Hmmm.

 

From what I can tell the Ascent looks like a great tire in almost all conditions except mud, which is what I deal with here in soggy southeast TX.

 

MT Baja Boss XL - Just got them 2 months ago. Balanced perfectly first try (on Road Force machine). No steering wheel shimmy at all. Was between these and Wildpeaks. Went with MTs because my research showed they stopped much better in the snow, have deeper tread depth, and are a little lighter than the Falkens. Have had them in the snow a few times here in MA and I couldn't be happier.

 

Thanks @2016SR5P now I have one more on my list. I have officially entered analysis paralysis!

 

According to Discount Tire, I just bought the last one in the country this week (in their system, at least).

I guess I'll find out soon if it's any good, lol.

 

That's interesting, I have the exact same mileage and don't have any funny wear. In fact, they're wearing very cleanly (and slowly) in my opinion.

I think you should go back to factory pressure and see how that goes (32 psi).

You might even try the criss cross now, to try and even them up. It would be silly to dump tires that still have good tread on them (even if they are a little noisy).

 

We are on the same page. I'm back to factory pressure and have them crossed over to see if I can get them to even out a bit. Maybe that will help.

The reason I am wanting to swap them out is that I have a trip to Moab coming up and tires are the last thing I need to worry about. It's 1200 miles each way and I plan to do some medium offroading while we are there. Not sure if have the time to see if they even out.