Michelin Defender Tires installed!!!

[89PACHANGA]

To All,
the BF stock were a bit loud for my "better half"...

So went with LT 285/70/17

Michelin Defender, LTX M/S

and hopefully "my dinner will always be in oven WRAM".

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[Kygolfer]

These were always my favorite tire just a little pricey.

 

[89PACHANGA]

Yup,
56K Truck
1600 tires
family outcome, PRICELESS, and hopefully, "dinner WARM"...

 

[AMTRV]

Yep, great tires. Good off-road in all but mud. I’d love to have a set on my Badlands for traveling.
I‘ve known some serious overlanders over the years that use these exclusively.
They certainly don’t look very sexy though

 

[Duke460]

Use them on all my trucks. Quiet on the highway and good in snow.

 

[2020FordRaptor]

To All,
the BF stock were a bit loud for my "better half"...

So went with LT 285/70/17

Michelin Defender, LTX M/S

and hopefully "my dinner will always be in oven WRAM".

Well I don't want to attack, but if the K02s were to loud for your better half, why did you buy a Bronco. In my opinion, no A/T on a Bronco is like putting A/T on a Mustang.

 

[prospectfour]

Well I don't want to attack, but if the K02s were to loud for your better half, why did you buy a Bronco. In my opinion, no A/T on a Bronco is like putting A/T on a Mustang.

Why the criticism? Looks to me like he made an Outer Banks! Can’t knock OP for putting street worthy tires and a street driven vehicle when there are Raptors that don’t make it past the farmers market. Everyone can do whatever the hell they want IMO.

Congrats to OP for finding peace in his home

 

[RHeinz]

I went through two sets of Michelin Cross Terrain Radials on a 2000 Ford Expedition. Both sets went over 100,000 miles each!

 

[Deleted member 32220]

To All,
the BF stock were a bit loud for my "better half"...

So went with LT 285/70/17

Michelin Defender, LTX M/S

and hopefully "my dinner will always be in oven WRAM".

All right… I see your doing something different here… I can’t judge you, I would definitely take the hot dinner, rather than the KO2’s

 

[Dingbat]

Well I don't want to attack, but if the K02s were to loud for your better half, why did you buy a Bronco. In my opinion, no A/T on a Bronco is like putting A/T on a Mustang.

Yes please!

I’m finding the Bronco to be fairly capable even with the Bridgestones that come on the Base. I can get up and down my back drive in the wet no problem. This little slope has moss, leaves, grass, and a 90* kink at the bottom with a sudden camber change. It may not look like much in the photo but it has caused a Nissan Frontier to have to take a couple runs at it and a Chevy Avalanche needed a come along and a static line to make it up in similar conditions to the photo below. Both had much more aggressive A/T tires. I bet that thing will go all sorts of places with those Michelins on it.

Usually in these conditions you creep down as far as you can then let off and steer through the jog at the bottom when it breaks free, hoping you can turn enough to miss the bank that is behind the vantage point of the photo. The Bronco I was able to stop where you’d normally be breaking free, get out and snap a photo. This was after 2-1/2 days of rain from the fringes of Ian.

We slid a Winnebago down this into the bank once…
It was much drier when we drove it up.

 

[reigny]

This is a weird thread for me. I feel like I did the opposite going to KO2 on my OBX. I was really excited to see your Bronco based on the excitement in the title.

Part of the fun of my Bronco is screaming at each other with the doors off, top down and sexy loud tires. It’s a loud truck and should be.

 

[Mattwings]

I think most people would be very surprised at the performance of the Michelin's off road (other than mud, as others mention). I used a very similar, prior version on my dodge PU and they were truly amazing and wore to over 80K miles. They definitely do not have the visual appeal of the BFG KO2s or similar ATs. Similar to the V8 "argument", I like the look of an A/T or even a M/T, love the sound of a v8, but in terms of actual performance, there may be areas of operation or personal preferences where another option may be best

 

[DrewBronc21]

Did road trips on K02s and Ridge Grapplers and neither seem that loud. The top is louder at highway speed than the tires. I’ll stick with A/T tires rather than passenger all seasons.

 

[Deleted member 32220]

Did road trips on K02s and Ridge Grapplers and neither seem that loud. The top is louder at highway speed than the tires. I’ll stick with A/T tires rather than passenger all seasons.

To be clear he doesn’t have “P” tires, They are “LT” light truck tires…more plies than a passenger tire.

 

[BossMann]

Best on-road truck tires ever made, period.

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