We’ve been running Duratrecs for years in load range C. We just bought the same size in load range E and the noise is insane! Thought something was wrong with the engine at first! The others Duratrecs we’ve had noise was not even an issue at all.

Best real world info on load E on a taco. I appreciate you.

Awesome stuff guy. I will use those tires for life. Never fail me yet.

I had the Duratracs on a 2019 GMC Canyon where they were OEM on the All Terrain (now called AT4). They we were very quiet. But not all Duratracs are load range E. I think mine were C's. The Canyon may also be better sound insulated than the Toyota.

Great informative video. I learned something new.

I rotate my tyres every 10,000 kms and the Duratrac is borderline regarding my road noise tolerance on road. The grip is technically insane, especially when deflated to 20-25 psi offroad. The problem is people drive with this tyre on bitumen 90% of the time. Take it off road, deflate it and your truck - regardless of make - will be nearly unstoppable. That's what it was designed for. I am at 50,000 kms and seems just over half worn. A note however: if your suspension geometry is out or have bad shockers, they will get cupped and noisy in no time.

I had a set of 275/65R18 Duratracs fitted to my Diesel Colorado when I purchased the truck new in 2020. After 3 months I felt really frustrated driving the truck because of the brutal road noise and the poor steering/braking response from the Duratracs. I decided to experiment with tyre pressures before purchasing a different set of tyres . I discovered that 70PSI front & 55PSI rear to be the sweet spot which had reduced the tyre noise & improved the drivability dramatically. It feels like a tottaly different vehicle to drive now. The tyres seem to be wearing fairly well .I have a little over 60 thousand kilometres (60% of that milage has been aggressive city driving) and all tyres have 7mm of tread remaining. Overall, I'm happy with the price/performance ratio that the Duratracs offer and will be getting them again when I'm due for new tyres.

Thank you good new information for me to learn 👍🏼

Hey Alex, another great video - I’ve learned something again thanks to this video. That tire noise is gross and would get tiring (no pun intended) in no time. Thanks

I puchased a titan xd 5.0 and they came with the duratracs. Great snow tire great on muddy roads and grest on cuppped highways with standing h20. Terrible road noise but great traction. Now i have the toyo AT3 new gen. Not as great in snow but where in hot weather is amazing compared to the duratracs. Bith tires are e rst3d and 10 ply

Any R/T or M/T needs regular rotation and balancing even WITH perfect pressures, alignment & suspension particularly if you are heavy on the brakes eg city driving / towing. The reason the rears are scalloped on this Tacoma is 100% due to them having been on the front too long previously without diagonal rotation and balancing (except IRS vehicles). HAD the tyres been over inflated, the scalloping on the shoulder would actually be much less likely to occur but you are indeed correct re' centre tread wear would be excessive. A tyre's load rating (load range) affects the maximum load capacity & recommended pressure the tyre (Australian English) is rated for. The load rating has zero bearing on the unladen tyre pressures you should be running on any given vehicle. For example, we run the same tyres on vehicles 1/2 or 2/3rds the weight of a Taco' with zero problems if they are looked after properly. Having run several sets of these personally, our only minor complaint is that they can be a little slippery in the wet obviously due to the hard compound and for sure, a little noisy on smooth roads being an R/T tread design more so than a A/T as such. 😉

They came stock on my trailboss and mine are loud as hell! I thought a wheel bearing was going but no movement at all. They're much louder than my 35" Mudd grapplers

DuraTracs might be noisy. But they work. I work at a municipality waste water plant, Residual Solids area. 900 acres of lagoons and drying beds. Slipping around in winter on “Solids” is a real test. BFG KO2 suck! The DuraTracs keep moving without tearing up levee roads. Did I Say BFG SUCK? Oh I did, they suck.

I just put duratracs on my four-door Jeep Wrangler, and was shocked at how quiet I find them, I believe they are an eight ply compared to my pro comp xtreme MT2’s they are like riding on clouds. Now, as far as proper inflation that’s where I would be doing a proper chalk test to fine tune what to run them at.

I’ve had several sets of BFG KO2s. All have started very quiet. However, they get louder and louder after 50% tread wear. At the end of their tread wear that sounds like MTs. I ordered my first set of Duratracs today. All off-road tires need rotation every 5000 miles, and get regular balance checks. Also, I found that I really need to get my alignment checked more often than I do. I wouldn’t be surprised if that Tacoma is out of alignment.

I love the sound of the tires!! I have Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac's load E, 35's on my 2010 tacoma TRD off-road D-4D diesel!! 👊👍 Busses and dump truck have load H tires!! Each tire is rated for 8,000 lbs!!

Few things here. Duratracs are known to feather and cup like crazy if not rotated very often. Just the nature of having open lugs with very little support between them. They are also a softer tread compound that can have chunking happen easily in rocky terrain. A load range E tire typically has a max pressure rating of 80 psi, although there are a few that go up to 83 psi, I know kind of odd. That doesn't mean you need to run the tires that high. To achieve the same load rating as the standard load tires that most likely came on that Tacoma from the factory, a load range E tire will need to run at a higher psi because load rating is essentially how much air you can force into the tire. That is why a load range E has a much higher max load capacity than a standard load tire, 80 psi max compared to the typical 44 psi max. Using a simple tire pressure calculator, to achieve the same load capacity as the standard load tire at 35 psi, the load range E tire should be inflated somewhere around 45 psi. The sidewall is only stiffer at much higher pressures. If kept to lower pressures, the sidewall will easily flex. The next time you are in a tire store, try sitting on a load range E tire that is not mounted. It will be a little stiffer than a standard load, but the main difference is when you get to higher pressures. The 55 psi that they put in those tires is a bit much for unloaded driving. My best advice is to drive over a dusty road and see where the dust contacts the tire. If there is a bunch of tread on the outside edge of the tire with no dust on it, you are overinflated. Drop the pressure until the very edges are just barely touched by dust. Or of course you can use a tire pressure calculator and save some time. People often run load range E tires on vehicles that go offroad a lot because they have more plies of material to make the tire, 10 plies for load range E, 4 plies for a standard load. Although often they use less plies than that now because they can make the plies stronger. It just saves weight. The extra plies of the load range E tire give it better puncture resistance, so offroaders love them. All in all, there really is no issue running a higher load tire than what the manufacturer has put on from the factory, you only need to understand that it will require different pressures than the stock tires. Never put tires that are a lower load tire than the factory tires, though.

Just learned something good! 🙂👍👍 Before i have my own F-tremor 💪

I've been running BFG AT KO2s at 285/70r17 (33"s) on my Navara and they are very quiet even though they are load E rated (not what I had initially asked for), my typical pressure is 35psi.

Trucks have owners manuals for a reason. Every vehicle is different. If you read it, you’ll find that mixed in with all the pages on how to install a car seat, how to start it, and what “D” means, there is information that you need to know, like what tires the manufacturer recommends and the proper psi rating.

Best tires I ever had on my f-150's

Wrong tires for 1/4 ton truck. The tires call for higher tire pressures. Yes always inflate what stamped on the door. Great review thank you

I just love this tire on my 3500 6.4 Ram

Obviously it’s louder then a KO2 but much less loud than any MT but come on you’re driving a truck not a Prius lol. Trucks need some road noise. My personal opinion after having KO2s ridge grapplers and open county, duratracs look handle and last better then all

Ive had two sets on two different brand new tacomas and they both started cupping/feathering around 50k kms. They are amazing in deep snow as i use them for ice fishing in winter but they are not great on road. I have wilkpeaks now and while not as aggressive in deep they drive so much better on road. My last set of duratracs cupped so bad they shook my wheel. Both happened on the fronts so i think the ones on your friends truck might have been rotated to the back.

02'sierra 2500hd 4x4 with 285's on (duratrac), Got them years ago, have over 52000 on them and still quite tires and still have a ways to go from what I can see, think I can squeeze (very comfortably) another 10k before I have to replace. I just did a round trip of about 2k on highway at 80 Ave mph and held up great, had windows down and radio comfortably. I don't understand some of the bad duratrac reviews, best dam a/t tire....period....nothing more to say

I have 31-10r15 Duratracs on a 1999 Dodge Durango and the are actually very quiet. I expected them to be much worse for noise. Keep the tires rotated. The first rotation at around 5000 is the most important. I sold tires including Goodyears for 30 years. What makes the Duratracs so good in the winter is the tire compound. Keeps the rubber soft. A full blown mud tire usually has a anti rock chipping compound that tends to get very hard in the cold and makes them very slick on ice, I run 10 ply Michelins on my ram 1500 and Michelin specs say to run them at 43 PSI for my application. I run the 10 plies to get stronger sidewall and a LT tire also usually has a deeper tread to begin with compare to a P series tire.

is it normal for it to get louder when you lay your foot off the gas?

Doesn't the door sticker PSI go out the window when you change to a different tire other than what the factory put on the vehicle? I was warned against using LT's mainly because it wears out your shocks & springs a lot sooner. LT's give you almost zero absorption.

I recently put these tires on my 08 Avalanche. I didn't realize the driver wheel bearing was going bad because the tires are so loud they drowned out the noise from the bad bearing. The tires look super mean though.

Had Duratracs on my 2012 F-150 and just like toyo's I never did like the ride they delivered , I went and got a set of Falken AT3W which are the best set of tires in the snow ,mud ,4x4ing in the mountains , ice really doesn't matter . live in Washington St. and we get a lot of snow on the passes 2017 I was going thru cancer treatments in Seattle during the worst winter condition blowing snow and roads were ice I was doing 65 all the over didn't slip ,slid , or spin once and the quietest ride ever

A few things going on here. 1. Load range E: If the owner takes it on trails & rock crawling the heavier tire may be on purpose. 2. Door sticker is really only relevant for OE or OE replacement tires. Once the tire is replaced with non-OE tires the door sticker is no longer to be followed. Proper inflation for the non-standard tire on this vehicle would need to be found, chalk test is the easiest way. Blindly running the tire at 35psi may leave it incorrectly inflated, which means the poor wear condition will remain. Most Tacoma owners that do run load E tires run in the 37-41psi range depending on the added full time weight to their truck.

I never had that problem with them wearing like that, i got the heal to toe wear, but with regular rotation of tires it kept it in check.

I like the sound

Came factory on my trailboss and sound just like that, drives me nuts. Great in snow but even rotating every 5k miles they cup and ride like crap. I just replaced them at 39k miles with a less aggressive tire.

Love that noise

Good to know. Bfg's to $. I will probably go with 265/70r16 Cooper Discoverer AT3. Keep my mileage. Low noise.

Just picked up a new to me 2015 Tacoma and it has new ones on it from the dealer. They're really noisy on the freeway doing 70-75 too. Seems to make my steering wheel vibrate too. Had them rebalanced too. 85-90%of my driving is highway. My door says 29 psi. I checked them and they're at 29-30.

great video bud. Are you sure the cup tires were not at one point on the front and the truck just doesn't have an alignment issue? to the viewers I might not know sometimes folks run higher load rating tires for off-road purposes because the thicker sidewall better resist punctures tears and so on. I personally think something else is going on here because I've never seen duratracs cup like that on any kind of truck especially on the rear.

Quiet as can be on my Chevy van…My favorite tire. Of course the van is loud but no louder than other tires I’ve had on the van

My Michelin all terrain’s 275 65 20 on a 1500 Silverado do amazing in pretty much everything and they are super quiet on the road they look pretty vanilla but do a good job all around

Do you think the warranty would replace them or the dealer? I have BF Goodrich all-terrains that just started to make a roaring noise they are six months old and I paid a lot of money for them.. I'm curious if I could get them replaced under warranty

It is hard to get 33" or bigger sized AT tires in standard load for 18" wheels.

Looks like Bus 130 had overinflated drive tires 😂 10 Ply Rating is high for that, but lack of (cross) rotation, out of balance, out of alignment, loose/ bent suspension parts, worn shocks, are also a common problem with feathering. Not a fan of Goodyear tires, but not always the tire’s fault or even the ply rating. And yes application is always something to consider when buying tires, 10 ply not needed if you’re not off-roading much or hauling weight. Here in the states, most common are 4ply, 6ply, 10ply. Sometimes 10ply tires are only $25 more per tire than a 4 ply. These are all things a tire tech and or salesman should disclose to their customers.

not to mention what running a super stiff tire on a light truck will do to the suspension and interior over time..

I have 30k miles on a set purchased new in 2020 on a trailboss. They have a weird harmonic about them at 29mph and 58mph they howl!! They are excellent in snow and on the trails in the Midwest USA. Not sure if I'll be purchasing again. I might try the Cooper AT3 XLT.

I have Dick Cepek Mud Terrain tyres. I nicknamed them, "mud screamers." They are incredible! But the roar they make is equally incredible. For freeway travels, I use hearing cm protection. Yes, I daily drive a highly modified, mud and off road terrain, jeep.

Duratracs are pretty quiet tires. Until they wear. Mine are similarly worn, and have the same harmonic noise to them, like you're driving over a shallow rumble strip.

I actually use those tires for all my cars (jeep, yukon, Tahoe and chevy 3500 dually). Actually that is the best AT tires that I ever used. I never get any NOISE from my tires there are like Highway tires 0 noice simply 0 noice. I really don't know how that can happen to you. Check your tire balance and air pressure or alignment. Best AT tires for sure!

That is why I went to K02s on my Power Wagon. Love the Duratrac performance but the loudness is tiresome.

Stiff sidewalls make for noisy tires. A given tire in Load C & E will be quieter in C than E. Rotate your tires and run Load C for any midsize truck/Jeep

I agree you should not put a load range E tire on a truck like the Tacoma or a Jeep Wrangler, a load range C would be better and a P rated tire would be fine as well. Load range E tires are for 2500/3500 pick ups. I think Duratracs are also sensitive to mis-alignments so installing new ones you should get the alignment checked right then. PS the Duratrac is available in a P rating in the size for the Tacoma 265/70-16

That's the sound of perfection in my book 👍🏻

Does it get better if l deflate the tires a little bit????

The noise is worth it if you are off roading and crawling every weekend. Otherwise, it gets annoying pretty fast. And the noise increases over time. BFG/KO2s have the same issue when older, but they start off quieter. Cheaper, too!

Quick thought, since E Rated needs higher PSI, higher in the Taco does not hurt the tires, right. If you run lower than the tires suggest 55 to 85, it jacks with the outside tread and not center.

Can’t hear it over the 7.3 turbo with cat back anyhow. Noise keeps people away. Cocktail shakers on my Triumph Bonneville too 😂

If you want really quiet tires , get Cooper AT3 4S. They're as quiet as a passenger tire.

You should NOT always follow the tire PSI on the door sticker. That’s dangerous advise. When you change tire size and specs your PSI requirements to carry the specified weight will change. You need to look up specks on the specific tire and tire size psi tables and match to the weight you’re trying to carry. For my slightly thinner taller duratracts that ended up being 46/47 psi front/rear.

My 2022 sr5 4runner came with the trd wheels with the duratracs from the dealer but gladly no noise.

Duratracs are a snow tire...snow, these a function over all other considerations tire. In a normal tire design there are trade offs, not in the Duratrac, snow performance is the only consideration. Not designed for quiet ride at all. Goodyear on their website rate the tire as 5/10 for noise( I note them to be around the same noise level as the linked belt track of a bulldozer)...that is not an exaggeration they state right up front they are noisy All tire designs are a balancing act of trade off, when people are buying tires they have one or two concerns from a list: Quiet, comfort, longevity, cost, traction in the corners launch rain snow mud sand, looks, a peer pressure ( my buddy like them so I will too). All tires need to be maintained: Alignments, pressure, use as the were designed for, weight class, Rotate rotate rotate every 5k or with every oil change if sooner.

My OEM Duratracs on my Trailboss have always been super loud.

16k on mine and I rotate every 5k miles... quiet for me. I say rotation and proper inflation would help ANY tire wear well.

Alex. I have these on my '22 Rebel, I can hear them when I'm driving but nothing like what you are hearing in that TACO! That rumble would drive me nuts! What pressure did you run in your old truck? On mine, the factory says 55 lbs, front and 45 lbs, rear.

Not a big fan of these tires, nor the Wranglers either. My biggest complaint is they don't hold up to a gravel road. I've had good luck with Hankook. They stand up to the gravel.

Honestly, I love the noise of mine. The tires humming, with some country music in the background. Yes sir.

Can you ran lower pressure and reduce noise?

Is the load range E variant better for airing down offroad? Stiffer sidewalls with an increased footprint, less likely to slip a bead when crawling at 15 psi? Any feedback is appreciated.

Ive had bfg ko and duratrac. The bfg are the best tire out ther but i got hunt in montana and duratrac do a lil of everything amazing but a lil howl. Not as bad as a mud tire. If you dont get into muddy roads. Then go bfg. And the E rateing is gona be a lil tuffer but you can still run them at manufacturers spec. I drive a 2003 gmc 2500 and i run 55 psi. Front 40 rear when on hyw 65 in rear when towing.

I’ve got those same tires on my 22 power wagon and they are nothing like the ones you have on the video

Just installed the duratracs on my Taco. No noticeable noise so far. Must have changed the design. Got the narrow 235/85/16. Mpg drop from 23mpg to 17mpg. Wonder if the narrower tire makes a difference. Are you switching to another 'less noisy ' brand.

Problem is, you cant hardly find bigger A/T tires that arent E load in LT sizes. Theres very few C and D options in LTs

Had them on a few vehicles never noticed that Loud of a noise.

I’m running the duratracs in 32” in C load on a 3rd gen taco TRD off-road and they are still loud!

A guy I work with has Duratrac tires on the back of his 2wd 3/4 ton Chev pickup, the tires are nearly spanked they still howl like a mud tire. You know for a 2000s 2500 2wd the duratrac tires do have decent traction, I was driving it the other day truck barely spun a tire on soft ground. I'm not a fan of Goodyear tires, the truck I bought has Goodyear Wrangler Adventure ATs they are the factory original tires that are 6 years old mind you.

Do you know what size tires are on the Toyota?

Wow mine aren’t that load but not running LT so maybe softer tires aren’t as load idk unless something wrong with your truck

At low speed on my F150, they are crazy, they reverberate through the cab with the windows up. Whats strange, windows down, you can barely hear them.

I just bought a 23 1500 AT4 comes with 275/65/R18 C- load rating. They are so noisy, way more then the TRX and 2 Raptors I had. Replacing them asap.

Oh god so wtf psi should I run ? O road driving 35miles a day. I have Goodyear wrangler dura on a DCLB taco. Thanks

Yep... Tacoma psi is supposed to be like 29... BUT... That's with P metric tires ... You should use a load inflation table to see what they should be for Tacoma for LT tires. If you kept the same size , you should actually be running HIGHER pressures with LT tires. I know .. not intuitive at all... You won't like this answer but you're supposed be running 41 PSI .... OEM Size (P265/65R17 SL) Load Capacity: 2149 lbs. @ 29 psi. Passenger type tires are fitted with a 10% overage in load capability when used on SUV's, Light Trucks, and Vans because of the difference in load handling. This load overage can be removed when changing to an LT type tire. That brings the effective load capacity to acheive down to 1954 lbs. New Size (LT265/65R17 E) Load Capacity: 1969 lbs. @ 41 psi.

Im not a fan of the GY Duratracs. Of the 2 sets I’ve owned, they all had some balance issues. I had one tire that needed 11oz of wheel weights! Rebalanced and remounted them 3 times with same results. They’re also loud. How many miles on the PW? I have a 22’ PW with 10k miles and I’ve noticed the front outer corners of the tires wears pretty quickly. Maybe I corner too fast or something lol. The alignment toe seems fine and no tread cupping. I rotate the tires every 5k miles.

I have them on my F-150, the tire noise doesn’t bother me.

Great video! Would this be a good tire if you live in southern states?

thx

Maybe it is not due tyres but car. We have set on our LR4 and no difference in noise - to be correct no difference in silence - car is so well insulated so you can’t hear anything just bit wind noise from roofrack

Yea, these tires will run you out of the vehicle. Pretty okay when brand new, but watch out as the miles pile up. CRAZY!!

exact same issue on my 21 Ram 1500. theyre scalloped and loud. 30k miles on em. load range E so but run at 40 psi on a 1500. sooo??

i think the tacoma is loud anyway. Toyota did not do a good job on noise dampening. I had the factory tires on my trd off road and it was still loud like that..my power wagon is MUCH more quiet..

Quietest tire ive ever had on a 1500 just have to get the load rating right cause the rubber is also softer so that lower PSI makes it more effective without effecting your ride conformability i literally couldnt even hear my tires at all mind you these were 32 x9s so you also have ti take that into acount with your tread pattern getting more spread out with bigger sizes and the weight but 40psi on a 1500 is mint but homestly i love tire humm so j was dissapointed in that but the quality in every terrain was amazing especially in snow for somone who is forced to drive closed roads for 60k every day in the winter these are amazing without going to a full winter tire didnt need 4x4 till the 3rd year of them after 80,000km

I walk most of the time and damn when a jeep is coming down the road I can hear its tires from like 200 feet away... Loud ass tires lol

I wonder how different the C load would perform with noise.

Yea… damn I want the look but not sure I want the sound. I don’t need the aggressive tires but I do want the look … all highway driver.

I have them on my Ram 1500 and they're really loud...

They were not that loud in my taco , you want loud tire then try BFG KM2

Load range E tires NEED to have a higher psi than the the same size P rated tire calls for to carry the same load ,sounds crazy but thats how it works.

No you should not ALWAYS follow the door sticker. I have a lifted 2002 f250, 8 inches of lift . It had Goodyear 31/10/16 on it factory and called for 55 psi in the tires on door sticker. I have Mickey Thompson MTZ 38/15.50/16s on it now at 30 psi and it does everything great. Hauling loads , snow, rain , dry pavement.

They rated so high for rock crawing.for the badest truck out there ZR2 chevy Colorado..😁

I just changed my tires yesterday and they are noisy as hell

How often do you recommend rotating on a power wagon? Please and thank you