{"id":1733,"date":"2019-10-18T15:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectkeira.com\/home\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2021-02-07T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T08:02:20","slug":"hankook-dynapro-at-m-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/hankook-dynapro-at-m-tires\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Noise Roller."},"content":{"rendered":"

I had been driving on my 10-ply BF Goodrich All-Terrain T\/A KO2s <\/strong>for awhile now, and they were pretty worn down. I’d say about 95% of approximately 54,000 miles driven was on pavement or asphalt – with that last 5% or so covering a few off=road adventures, some camping, and mountain bike shuttling. Over that time period they have had around 10 different screws, nails, or other puncturing-type things in them at one point in time – but none that caused a full flat. They’ve held up pretty good, but after four years the tread was just about to the wear strips. It was time for some new tires.<\/p>\n

This time around I already knew what I was looking for – and no, not a 285\/75-16 (I’ll consider it again next time I need new tires). Also, I wasn’t planning on getting another set of KO2s; in fact I was shifting my tire choices away from the proven off-road tires specifically for one major reason: tire noise. The first year of ownership the BF Goodrich KO2s were fine. There was barely a tire hum compared to the stock Long Trails so all seemed good.<\/p>\n

However as the miles came and the tire wear began, that little hum got louder and louder. After about 2-1\/2 years it was no longer a hum – it was a loud, oscillating drone noise. It almost sounded like a bad wheel front-left bearing and it would get its loudest in the 60-65mph speed range. I tried changing tire positions, I tried different tire pressures, I tried altering my alignment specs, and nothing. I knew that a full M\/T tire had a loud drone, but I didn’t think the A\/T KO2 would. Since this was my daily driver\/commuter I pretty much concluded that the next set of tires will have to be more “street” and less “dirt”.<\/p>\n

\"\"
What you learn after driving on the same tire for 4 years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was time to buy new tires. I spent a good 2 weeks comparing, researching, and debating what tire to go with this time around, and in the end I went with the Hankook Dynapro AT-M (RF10)<\/strong> – which I knew did not look as aggressive as the KO2, but that wasn’t what I was looking for at this time.<\/p>\n

Fun Fact #1<\/strong>: Coincidentally the RF10’s are also the OEM tire for certain model year Frontiers.<\/p>\n

So a quick call to my wheel\/tire pal, and in about 4 days I had a new set of RF10’s ready to mount. I stayed with the\u00a0265\/75-16 size, and I also went with the SL-rated 4-ply instead of the E-rated 10-ply as again – the main goal for this tire set was less noise, more comfort, and leaning more to the road side of things. Finally,\u00a0the SL-rated tires weighed in at about 37 pounds each; that’s a decent weight savings compared to the 53 pound KO2s.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Fresh new shoes for the Frontier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
No lift needed, we can do this the old fashioned way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
New tire next to old tire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Mounting the RF10’s onto my Level 8 wheels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fun Fact #2:<\/strong> Balancing the RF10’s were a piece of cake. Take a look at how much weight we had to use on one of the wheels that had the previous KO2s on them:<\/p>\n

\"\"
Another not so cool thing about running heavy off-road tires.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had been driving on my 10-ply BF Goodrich All-Terrain T\/A KO2s for awhile now,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,3],"tags":[215,539,209,540,538,208,216,212],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eol-end-of-line","category-wheels-tires-and-brakes","tag-265-75-16","tag-at-m","tag-bully-pro-6","tag-dynapro","tag-hankook","tag-level-8","tag-load-e","tag-wheels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}