When you want to hit some serious mud holes around Jacksonville, FL, you need a serious tire -- and Cooper has come through harder than ever with the new Tire. A beastly looking tire with a reptilian, scaled lug with irregular spacing (to allow for maximum self-clearing of mud), the Discoverer STT is one of the best mud stomping tires ever.
The lug is computer generated, with lateral treads, deep voids, and wide, siped lugs that provide massive performance off the road. The tires excel at providing traction through sand, snow, and gravel -- but as the name suggests, they're custom made for mud. Unique side grooves provide enormous resistance to lateral slippage. Dense siping provides excellent grip on snow and ice.
Enormous 15 millimeter side lugs that act like miniature paddles propel you through mud of any kind as well as protecting the sidewall from potential impacts. They also give the Cooper Discoverer STT Tire a vicious profile that is very pleasing to the eye. Enhancing the visual effect is an optional sidewall design that continues the reptilian theme.
The driving surface of the tire is reinforced with dual full-width steel belts to make sure nothing punctures the tire's driving surface. 3 plies of polyester reinforce the sidewall (in addition to those massive lugs), making the sidewall incredibly tough as well. Very little that you'll come across in any drivable environment is going to threaten the Cooper Discoverer STT Tire. State-of-the-art manufacturing techniques guarantee uniformity and balance across the entire body of the tire, so as long as they're aligned properly, no single part of the tire will wear out early.
On the pavement around Jacksonville, FL, the Cooper Discoverer STT Tire loses a little of it's shine, largely because it's incredibly loud. You don't ever expect a mud tire to provide a smooth, quiet ride or great traction on pavement -- but the Discoverer STT takes the usual noise and bumpiness of mud tires to the extreme. (On the plus side, the noise on the outside of the car is just aggressive enough to match the visual profile nicely.) On the other hand, Cooper's muddy masterpiece does feature deliberately strengthened lugs that do provide more traction on-road than most of its peers.
Another significant downside is that the tires are extraordinarily expensive and don't come in small sizes -- at all. But if you've got a big rig and some cash to spend, there's no better way to stomp some of the mud holes around Jacksonville, FL than with a set of Cooper Discoverer STT Tires.
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