Please keep us informed. I would like to know how these Silentarmor A/T's do aired down and in offroad conditions. I am thinking of getting these same tires in 35ö.

I bought a set of Goodyear S/A 265/75 R16's from Tire Rack. I had them siped (which voided the warranty!) and currently have 12K miles on the tires. These tires are great..I have been up and down some very steep mining trails here in Utah and eastern Nevada with the tires aired down to 20 psi and didn't have any traction problems, I just wish 4 low had lower gears. 18" of new snow with no problems and they are good in the rain.

So far I can report being very pleased with these Goodyear Wrangler Silentarmor A/T in the 'E' load rating (that is, much higher than intended).

They handle well in the city; feel relatively stiff, never squeal, maybe a little more vibration over terrible pavement. The shop left them inflated to 38psi all around, and on the highway they seemed quite comfortable like that for a few hundred miles.

Off-road, in Mojave NP, they were just great. I aired down to 25, then 20psi for the rougher stuff. Finally got the T well and truely stuck: over a diagonal rut in the trail, I got the FR wheel a good 6" off the ground, and the BL unladen as well, with the truck tilted to the left. Without lockers, she was going nowhere. I aired down to perhaps 16psi, and the tires sagged nicely, but couldn't get enough traction in the LR even with many handfuls of gravel. Much of the weight was on the FL tire, which was squished out but seemed to bear it well. As night was falling, finally got enough tree branches under the FR, and the front axle pulled her out. After some more rockcrawling on the trip, I saw very little evidence of damage on the sidewalls, unlike the old off-brand ones which got beat up.

Even aired back up to barely 25psi, there was very little heating/pressure rise on the highway to a gas station with an air pump. From an amateur perspective, these tires seem great: good city, fine highway, excellent traction offroad, very tough, able to handle a huge pressure range: low pressure, sidewall supported, sagging nicely, and are rated to carry some rediculous amount of weight at like 45psi. The accidental 'E' load rating doesn't seem to have been a problem at all on the T-100.

I can't say how they'd be in mud, but for SoCal mountains and deserts (and there's that M+S snowflake rating to boot), seem like an excellent choice.

-Alex
'97 T100 4x4 5-speed, stock
Lots of desert pinstriping