LR3 - Just ordered 255/60R18 General Grabbers

[vuperior]

and can't wait. As we all know, the stock Wranglers are terrible and only lasted me 20k miles. Anyone have any experience with the Grabbers? I own an industrial railroad company and brownfield redevelopment sites and really need something a bit more than a road tire. I'm a previous owner of a late 90s RR and early 2000's Disco. I think the '06 LR3 is an excellent ride. BTW, thanks for the heads up on the steering wheel peeling problem...I need to replace mine.

First post. Thrilled to be here.

 

[richpike]

Here is a compilation of all my postings on the AT2s:

We've had them for ~7000 miles now. Great in the snow, OK on ice, OK in the mud and seem to be good offroad (I've haven't done anything too extreme in them though). We also took a 2500 mile trip in them over Christmas - cruised awesome at 90mph, very quiet for the tread pattern, no tramlining, just a nice smooth ride. They also seem to have excellent treadwear - I haven't noticed any wear so far.

BTW - our Land Rover dealer puts them on all their CPO cars, so they must be pretty darn good.

One more quick addition - if I had been paying for them, I would have considered putting on the BFG ATs to get the extra ground clearance (they only come in a slightly larger size). But since we didn't pay for them (they came on the car when we bought it), I couldn't be happier

I'm not sure on the Silent Armors, but we recently put the General Grabber AT2s on our LR3 in 255/60R18 and we have been very happy with them (good on the road, good treadwear, good off road, good price, pretty hard to beat). They are also what our dealer puts on the majority of their CPOs.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....nSpeedRating=S

It looks like you also might be in Colorado - you can get the Grabbers from Discount Tire and they will typically beat TireRack and I've always been extremely pleased with their service in Colorado Springs.

Yep. We've had the AT2s on our LR3 for about 8k miles now. In general, I'm very pleased with them - good wear, good noise, good in the mud, good in the snow, good on the road, OK on ice. Notice they aren't great at anything, but they are good at everything. And for the price, they are pretty hard to beat. They won't be as good as a dedicated winter tire, but we've been very pleased with them as a year round tire.

The only bad thing I've heard about them is that they can be difficult to balance, but I haven't seen any problems with that.

BTW - I'm also in Colorado and spend quite a bit of time in the mountains/snow. They can't change the laws of physics, but I'm very pleased with them.

In general, we are very pleased with them. Hopefully I'll get them in to some more serious stuff soon

-Rich

BTW - Welcome!