lt265/65R17 Tires

Vehicles using LT265/70R17 tires include:

• Cadillac Escalade
• RAM 2500
• Ford F150
• GMC Canyon
• Jeep Wrangler
• Land Rover Defender
• Lincoln Mark LT
• Toyota 4Runner

1. Bridgestone Alenza A/S Ultra - Best All-Season tire

Let’s get this list going with the Bridgestone Alenza A/S Ultra, a versatile and capable all-season tire that’s applauded for year-round traction on dry, wet, or snowy roads. It’s a very competent all-around tire that delivers on value and long wear, along with the sort of low highway noise and compliant ride quality you’d expect with a Grand Touring tire. The Alenza A/S Ultra is one of the newer iterations of the Bridgestone’s Alenza tire family and is designed with the goals of long, even tread wear and precise handling in mind. Bridgestone starts with an advanced silica-based tread compound that offers good noise suppression, dependable grip in wet or wintry conditions, and long tread wear. For wet-weather performance, the Alenza A/S Ultra’s asymmetric all-season tread pattern features wide circumferential grooves that resist hydroplaning as they route water away from the tire’s contact patch in wet weather. When the snow starts piling up and winter weather starts to turn treacherous, there’s an intricate pattern of sipes and Bridgestone’s Snow Vices, grooves that pick up and retain snow to develop snow-to-snow friction and are designed for safe, reliable traction. Bridgestone’s Quiet Track technology package reduces pattern noise and negates certain frequencies and resonances for a whisper-quiet ride. The internal construction of the Alenza A/S Ultra incorporates a polyester casing topped by two steel belts and a spiral-wound nylon cap ply, for the highway-speed stability and durable wear you’re looking for. When you take all that into account, Bridgestone is confident enough to offer an 80,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty for the Alenza A/S Ultra. After doing our calculations with SimpleTire’s SimpleScore system, the Alenza A/S Ultra registers an overall average of 9.6, with marks of 9.5 for handling, 9.7 for longevity, and 9.7 for traction. Long, even wear, dependable grip year-round, and handling that’s nimble and predictable – that's what the Bridgestone Alenza A/S Ultra can bring to the table.

2. Goodyear Wrangler Workhorse HT - Best Highway tire

Here’s another great choice in a premium all-season tire for light trucks, the Goodyear Wrangler Workhorse HT. The Wrangler Workhorse HT ranks with an overall average SimpleScore of 9.2, breaking down to 9.8 for handling, 9.9 for traction, and 7.9 for longevity. With a 60,000 mile warranty, the Wrangler Workhorse HT is certainly durable and has first-rate wear properties – with a long-wearing tread formulation, a 2-ply polyester casing, 2-ply polyester-reinforced sidewalls, twin high-tensile steel belts, and a polyamide spiral-wound cap layer, it’s designed to last. That strong SimpleScore for traction is thanks to the Goodyear Wrangler Workhorse HT’s all-season tread design and its combination of a dense network of sipes for enhanced winter performance, circumferential and angled grooves, and a closed shoulder with slots for water drainage. All those tread elements are designed to interlock and work as a system for grip in wet, dry, or winter conditions. That tread design and the rigidity of the Wrangler Workhorse HT’s casing and tread face can also be figured into that excellent score for handling.

3. Bridgestone Blizzak DM-V2 - Best Winter tire

Now it’s time for a winter tire, and the Bridgestone Blizzak DM-V2 is a perfect choice in a LT265/70R17 winter tire. The Blizzak DM-V2 has the technology and the performance to help you navigate through some difficult winter conditions without wearing you out from a rough, noisy ride. Bridgestone designed the Blizzak DM-V2 around an advanced winter tread formulation with multi-cell rubber compounds and a hydrophilic coating that stays pliable for traction at subfreezing temperatures. Its winter tread design is packed with features like increased block edges that multiply surface area and is infused with “bite particles” that let the Blizzak DM-V2 dig into snowy, slushy, or icy surfaces. SimpleScore for traction: a very strong 9.7. Bridgestone also designed the Blizzak DM-V2 with an enhanced contact patch, which not only boosts traction but also steering feedback and response, helping to mark up a SimpleScore of 8.9 for handling. Durability is also a real plus with this tire; Bridgestone designed the Blizzak DM-V2 with NanoPro Tech Multicell Compound for the first 55% of the tire’s tread depth, while the remaining 45% is a standard winter compound that’s still very capable on snow and slush (SimpleScore of 9.3 for longevity). The Bridgestone Blizzak DM-V2 is Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certified for severe winter service.

4. Continental TerrainContact A/T - Best All-Terrain tire

Here’s a premium all-terrain tire, the Continental TerrainContact A/T. This is a tire that delivers the best of both worlds: durability and dependable traction off the pavement along with ride quality, noise levels, and road manners that are completely tame and composed on the highway. The TerrainContact A/T gets a very strong overall SimpleScore of 9.0, with a traction score of 9.6. That’s thanks to Continental’s +Silane tread formulation and TractionPlus design. The TractionPlus package includes a closed shoulder, full-depth sipes, and deep traction grooves for dependable, consistent grip in off-road or wintry conditions. The TerrainContact A/T is durable too, with twin steel belts, a 2-ply polyester casing, and a spiral-wound polyamide layer for stability at highway speeds. Continental covers the TerrainContact A/T with a 60,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty, and we figured a SimpleScore of 8.4 for longevity. The closed shoulder and reinforced casing of the TerrainContact A/T helps to enhance steering response, cornering, and braking performance, resulting in a SimpleScore of 9.1 for handling. Bonus: the TerrainContact A/T is available with an outlined white letter sidewall that looks great on any truck.

5. Falken Wildpeak H/T 02 - Good Highway tire

Let’s close out this list with another great highway-terrain tire, the Falken Wildpeak H/T 02. The Wildpeak H/T 02 might be categorized as an all-season highway-terrain tire, but that doesn’t tell the whole story – this is a very tough and durable tire for light trucks and SUVs, complete with Heavy Duty LT designation. The Wildpeak H/T 02 is built for durability; its design features include a reinforced upper sidewall, damage-resistant tread compound, “support bridge” tread blocks that add extra rigidity and stability, and up to a 70,000 mile warranty. Take that all into account and it comes out to a SimpleScore of 9.7 for longevity. It’s also designed for year-round performance, with a tread pattern built around circumferential and lateral grooves with 3D Canyon Sipes and a silica-rich tread formulation, for a SimpleScore of 8.7 for traction. Steering response, braking performance, road manners, and cornering are all sharp and predictable, and we give the Wildpeak H/T 02 a SimpleScore of 8.5 for handling. Overall SimpleScore for the Falken Wildpeak H/T 02 is a very robust 9.1.

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