I've taken the BF Goodrich Ko2 All-Terrain Tires in every off-road terrain that there is! In this video I review the tires and give my thoughts while showing clips from my adventure videos! seektheopen@gmail.com #bfgoodrich #ko2 #jeep
John Hammond had the BFG All-Terrain T/A on the Explorers and Wranglers, he did say he "Spared No Expense"🥲😂✌️it took alot from a T-Rex before it shredded so MOAB or Rubi Trail should be no problem 😂
I have to say, you're the first podcaster I've seen to point out the benefits of having a C-load rated tire. I only found out about it by word of mouth after driving several years on an E rated tire. This is an important, and much overlooked, topic and needs to be discussed more, especially for new jeepsters who may only know about tire sizes. Thank you.
I agree with your assessment and run KO2’s on my JKU also. From my own personal experience off roading one time, I didn’t know I popped a bead going off camber. When I saw the tire pressure light turn on, I stopped and check the tires visually, everything looked good so I disregarded it. I know I should have used a tire gauge but since the tires looked fine, I let it go. To get home, I had to drive about 150 miles hiway speeds. It felt solid on the road the entire ride home. The next day, I checked the tire pressures just for the heck of it. 3 tires were up to spec, one tire didn’t register anything on the tire pressure gauge. I filled it to 36 psi and no damage. I don’t recommend doing what I did, but I can tell you, my KO 2’s are awesome and saved my butt!
BFG AT works good on 2wd pickups too. I got two on the back for added assurance on a old chevy 1500 during winter I just put two or three hundred pounds of cap blocks in the bed and it's good to go.
Appreciate the review! I have 11k miles on my bronco badlands. Came with BF Goodrich wranglers. And I’m looking at what my next tire will be. This helped a lot!! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I’ve used the KO’s and KO2’s since I think 1991 or somewhere around there. I’ve also used them in every condition imaginable. With me and my experiences with them, they have always done great in every condition. They have also always lasted much longer than initially expected. The vehicles that I have used them on are Toyota Hilux and Tacoma 4x4’s, a 1980 Datsun 4x4, a few 1/2 ton 4x4 trucks and on my 2021 JL Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon. In really wet and soupy mud is maybe the only condition I have seen them struggle a little bit but my buddy had mud terrains on his truck and he was struggling too so I think that was more the conditions than it was the tires lacking in capabilities. With slick rock, mine always did fine but I know others who have said their KO’s and KO2’s have struggled on some slick rock obstacles too but I don’t know what those people were aired down to though?
My last couple of sets ive had were Km3's and never had issues. I got 37's k02 and three of the four are couping and the fourth is out of round. I only put 4500 miles on them and had them roated 3 times and balacned four and same issues and all this on a jeep gladiator . I got them with 11k miles on the truck and now its 15.5 k miles im returning them issues since day one. I have pretty much a new truck . Going back to the km3's
These tires are awesome I have a set on my wrangler tj and I've had them for 8 years now and they still look almost new and I live in Minnesota and they are awesome in the snow. I've got almost 50,000 miles on them and still a lot of tread left on them and I had one flat on of the tires and that was just a couple of months ago after 7 1/2 years of having them. I do plan on getting these tires again either this fall or next year.
Great footage--much better than many videos I've watched. Got an FJ a few months back and all 5 tires are the KO2's, but dealer kindly sold me it with only about 20% tread on 4 of them. I've watched a lot of videos of different tires/vehicles in action, but few where tires are tested on same vehicles, same conditions, and same lines. Struggling between getting something like Blizzaks on steelies for the Oregon wet/sloshy/slippery/muddy winters or just getting new KO2's. The Mickey Thompson Baja Boss tires seem to compare well to the KO2's, but are a bit better in the mild muddy conditions. At this point, my truck sees 10% of its time on wet pothole'd gravel roads and some mild mud/wet grass. In the city, our street conditions are often accumulated wet slippery leaves, frost, mild snow that melts quickly then freezes,, and the occasionally light dry or wet packed snow. Paced hills are slushy snow or packed snow with occasional ice. Usually snow melts then freezes, might snow again, then later melting and freezing more. Main concern is the ice and poor traction, so was leaning towards, like I said, possibly playing it safe and going with the Blizzak or X-Ice on steelies for winter and then, either, KO2's or Baja Boss's for all other seasons. Mountain trails/off-road conditions are usually gravel roads, mild mud, and soft terrain comprised of fallen leaves, pine needles, and very loose squishy overburden. The eastern half of Oregon is, basically, desert. Love the long-established history of KO's and the great performance of the KO2'S (plus they look great), but with the soft outer compound that later wears to harder compound (that tends to slip on some surfaces quite easy), I'm leaning towards the Baja Boss. The rig is pretty stock with Bilstein shocks, leveling kit up front, and stock TRD 265/75R/16 fake beadlock wheels. Plan to do more greater off-roading, so in the near future will switch to aftermarket bumpers/winch, maybe upgrade roof rack, do the BMC and get a 3" OME, Fox, or Total Chaos stage 3-4 lift. Anyone here or friends of yours running Baja Boss? Comparable in most regards to the KO2 performance, but but better in mild mud? Nice looking rig, btw. :) Love Jeeps (have owned an XJ and a ZJ in the 90's) and was almost tempted to get a 4dr JL this time around, but decided to go with the more all-around reliable vehicle this time (lol). Jeeps are such awesome performers off-road, tho. Wish Toyota would have built the FJ with a solid axle up front.
@nitroburn72 I have the Baja Boss A/T in the XL 265/70r17 size on my 2019 Chevy Colorado ZR2 Duramax with around 10k miles on the tires. I travel from western Oregon to eastern Washington for work, so I go through the Gorge twice a week, usually. So far they are impressive. They are quiet, smooth, have great traction on dry and wet pavement, even do pretty well in the mud. Powder snow traction is good, aired down to around 12 psi so far, they float quite nicely. Traction on compact snow and ice is not very good, often letting the backend slide around, even with extra weight from having a 70 gallon diesel tank and tool box in the bed. The Colorado does have awd, which helps a little bit. I work in forestry, so I see dirt, rock and shale roads pretty much every day and the tires are handling the extra abuse well. I have not had a set of BFG KO2s yet, so I cant compare. For most of the year, the Baja Boss A/T will serve you very well. Winter time I would go with dedicated winter tires. I average 40k miles a year, so I will find out pretty quickly how well these will hold up. Edit: Forgot to mention that because the Baja Boss uses a 3 ply sidewall and overall pretty heavy construction, it is a heavy tire and you will lose 1 to 2 mpgs depending on size.
I’ve run them on a Jeep Liberty with great results. For a lug style tire, they are surprisingly quiet on the pavement, plenty of grip on wet pavement, plenty of grab in the snow and mud. Now I run them on a Ram 1500 4wd. Got 98,000 miles out of my first set (of 5 tires) before replacing them with the same tires. Recommend them highly. 👍🏻
I had a set from Nov/2018 to last month and had half tread left, that's impressive 👌 and let's be honest.. I was 3 when my mom showed me Jurassic Park when it came out on VHS (lol) and seeing Malcolm in the back of JP10 seeing the All-Terrain T/A instilled it in my mind. I got another set hahaha
At about 40 seconds in I laughed my behind off as you say, "Here, I'm going along a road..." It's really hilarious... I can just see a regular middle class dude in the suburbs driving his Lexus and watching and thinking.... That ain't no road... I live in MT but grew up back east in a city...
Really enjoy the Jeep content. Great videography too! I have the KM3's but have considered going back to the KO2's on my JLUR for the on road performance. Subscribed!
I absolutely loved my KO2's for everything except the soupy clay mud we have here in the southeast. They did amazing for me everywhere else though including Moab. I switched to Cooper STT Pro's and the difference in mud and just general offroad performance is night and day. Granted they have much more aggresive tread and a substantially larger tread depth so thats only natural. When it comes down to it everyone's situation is different and I much prefer the increased offroad performance and the hit in on road manners. However I can totally see why most dont fall into that catagory.
One of the best RU-vid reviews I’ve seen to date! Thanks brother. I have to decide between KM3s and KO2s in the next few hours for my Bronco 🤦🏾♂️ 90% pavement and then the other 10% is the same level of off roading in this video. We don’t have much rock to crawl where I live so I think you’ve convinced me on the KO2s to be honest. Thanks again
My 95 Grand Cherokee (stock) will NEVER be climbing rocks. Nor dowe have a lot of sand here in the Pacific Northwest. It's mostly Forest Service roads with two track spurs that can be a little sketchy back in there. It has a 3" lift and 30x9.50 KO2's on it and does everything I need just fine. Great tires.
I've had mine for 3 years now on a daily driver Navara and have taken them through various conditions. They "wear" like iron (haven't really had any wear at all), haven't even balanced them and there is no shaking! Have never aired down, sometimes mud can give them somewhat of a hard time. I'd say that they're an improvement over the original KOs for sure, no hydroplaning either.
@@SeekTheOpen Yeah, haven't tried that or had the need for it yet. One time I accidentally had my previous Stts on 25 psi and the truck became a tank in snow, didn't even need 4x4.
Great video sir. You mentioned having 285/70/17's are you running a lift with those size tires? Plan on putting some of these on my daughters 2014 JK with just a leveling kit.
My only complaint with the k02s is they are terrible on icy roads. I got them siped and they are much better in winter conditions. Once they wore out I switched to Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs and they are much better off road in mud and snow. I got a Jeep TJ.
Great video and really useful to find out what works on a 2 door. Do you have any issues with tyres rubbing ( i''m in the UK so dont get the high clearance front fenders). Keep the videos coming !!
Did you check into lengthening some of your bump stops? May be a cheaper solution? A pound banknote buys you more in American/Canadian but for how long is anyone's guess? Try some aftermarket replacements, American salvage yards? Try them all? See what works best for your situation? From what I've been seeing you'll need a 2 inch lift for full articulation with North American fenders. The price can be reasonably cheap to outrageously expensive. If you stick with your fenders add an inch & a half. Here we're able to run a 2.5 inch lift & 37 inch tires & finish tuning it with the bump stops. Ask yourself what are you using it for? Mall or rock crawler? Are fuel prices a problem?
The instant I buy a new pickup, it travels immediately to my "tire guy", who then installs a full set of BFG KO2's. I have owned five F150's and each one follows the same routine.
Thanks for the vid. Wonder how these would compare to the wrangler territory MTs. They're also a 6 ply and even 10lbs lighter than bfg. I'm torn between the 2 :/
I haven't heard much good said about those tires, I think Ford had those made so they could sell the cheapest possible 35s from the factory for the Bronco SAS package.
hi everyone can you rate this tire 1 to 10 for sand (sand dunes and beach) please? I have a ram sport 2016 4x4, with cooper tires but I dont like them at all, I have this ones but like 10 years ago and were perfect and smooth wanna try again, thanks!
Cooper Evolution MT 35x12.5 only weigh 55 lbs each. Makes a massive difference in gas mileage, Breaking acceleration, etc. Still quiet on road while still great in mud. Each lug is siped so they are good in wet and snow. However the KO2 better in snow. The soft MT compound obviously much grippier (like the KO3) KO2 an excellent tire, but I'd use only if snow traction, tire wear and road use was more important
I run these on my tacoma. No issues although I had one go flat and we can’t figure out why. no holes. It’s like someone’s tried to intentionally let air out.
Not saying anything about your driving or vehicle, but everything is subjective. Your friend may have made it with Muds because his vehicle was different, maybe heavier in front, and peoples driving abilities are all different. The bumper could be avoided because you simply chose the wrong path, or way of getting into it.
Mostly agree, but KM3s are hands down superior on the rocks, even keeping those other things constant. You don’t always know the right line especially when you are first to go. In that instance we knew it was likely going to happen but it was that or roll down the hill.
@@OneLeggedStormChaser mickey thompson baja boss ats are even better then those. I've been severely impressed with everything I've thrown at these baja bosses
That is a whip flag it is for visibility of other vehicles. Michigan off-road parks/areas require them. They help you see another vehicle if it is coming up a hill on the opposite side.
I did the jump to 315 mine is auto and it does nothing crazy like people say. Shifts fine still quick not sure what people mean by they make you slower. Well not in my case. Make the jump. You’ll love it makes the Jeep look so much better. Oh and I haven’t flashed my computer and my speed is 2 mph different till you hit 50 + then it’s changes a few but gonna flash it soon. I’ve been running 315 for 7k + miles ….just so you know mine is a 2014 jk sport s auto with 68k 2.5 aev duel sport lift and 1/2 body. 315 fits so perfect.
I’ve had good experience with these in heavy rain storms on the highway. I think the original KOs were much worse but the KO2s have been improved, could also have higher rate of deterioration with respect to rain performance as it wears. Time will tell 🤔
