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Got some photos of the bed storage cases, you can see they don’t stick out much past the existing wheel wells. The only bad thing is that 4’ wide material would have to sit on top of them, but it wouldn’t have fit between the wheel wells anyway. I don’t haul 4’ wide sheets that often, so it is a compromise I can live with, especially compared to the toolbox which had me giving up 2’ of my 6’ bed.
I went ahead and ordered some tires, decided that I would give the Cooper Discoverer A/TW a try in LT235/85R16. (I love tall skinny tires.) I researched this decision to death, as my initial reaction was to get another set of Michelin LTX M/S2 or the new Defender LTX in this size. The new defender was not out, and the Michelin rebates don’t start back up for a few weeks so I would have waited for that to come.
The Cooper A/T 3 was met with rave reviews when it was released, but I didn’t care for it’s lack of siping. The Cooper A/T W appears to be very similar tire to the A/T 3, only with many more sipes. What finally pushed me over the edge to give the Cooper A/T W a try was the Consumer Reports test which showed that they had basically the same rolling resistance as the Michelin M/S 2 that I had previously been running, so hopefully my MPG will be about the same with them. I hope that test is correct.
According to the specifications, the Cooper A/T W appears to check all the boxes I wanted as a highly siped street oriented all terrain. I will just have to wait till they get here and see how they do.
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