Cooper HT3

sdeeter19555 · January 3, 2017

I've had the Cooper HT3 on my truck for the past 20k miles, figured I give a quick review of them. These are an all-season/highway tire, not what most are looking for on this forum. But I do a lot of highway miles, very little off highway, and needed a long-lasting, quiet, smooth tire.

I have the HT3 in a 265x70r17 Load Range E. The truck is a 4wd 2012 2500hd CC with the 6.0l and 3.73s.

I had the dealer reset my TPMS to 50psi, and I run 55 psi in all four with good results. Wear is very even and with 20k on this set I figure I'll get at least 60k if not 80k (probably the 60k, as I use these in snow and will replace early).

Wet traction is very good, very little wheel spin even with moderate to heavy throttle. They don't seem to have any tendency to hydroplane, gives a confident feeling on wet roads.

Dry traction is awesome, no wheel spin with moderate to heavy throttle.

Snow traction is better than expected, I've driven some pretty snotty roads over the past two weeks and these spin and slip where you expect them to, just like any other non-snow tire...in 4wd, I had no issues in deeper snow on a hard packed snow base. They are definitely no snow tire, but performance was acceptable to me for the amount of time I expect to run snow.

Very smooth ride, this elimated my frame beaming. To be honest, they replaced two tires that were out-of-round within the first 500 miles without question, but since then I have not had any issues.

Weight carrying is as expected, no squirm. I carry one of three trailers at least once or twice a month, tongue weights between 50 and 700 pounds with no issues.

These are very quiet also, the engine noise is louder than the tires.

Overall, very good purchase. These are bounds better that the OE Bridgestone and better (for my purpose) than the APT.

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sdeeter19555 · August 28, 2017

I've had the Cooper HT3 on my truck for the past 20k miles, figured I give a quick review of them. These are an all-season/highway tire, not what most are looking for on this forum. But I do a lot of highway miles, very little off highway, and needed a long-lasting, quiet, smooth tire.

I have the HT3 in a 265x70r17 Load Range E. The truck is a 4wd 2012 2500hd CC with the 6.0l and 3.73s.

I had the dealer reset my TPMS to 50psi, and I run 55 psi in all four with good results. Wear is very even and with 20k on this set I figure I'll get at least 60k if not 80k (probably the 60k, as I use these in snow and will replace early).

Wet traction is very good, very little wheel spin even with moderate to heavy throttle. They don't seem to have any tendency to hydroplane, gives a confident feeling on wet roads.

Dry traction is awesome, no wheel spin with moderate to heavy throttle.

Snow traction is better than expected, I've driven some pretty snotty roads over the past two weeks and these spin and slip where you expect them to, just like any other non-snow tire...in 4wd, I had no issues in deeper snow on a hard packed snow base. They are definitely no snow tire, but performance was acceptable to me for the amount of time I expect to run snow.

Very smooth ride, this elimated my frame beaming. To be honest, they replaced two tires that were out-of-round within the first 500 miles without question, but since then I have not had any issues.

Weight carrying is as expected, no squirm. I carry one of three trailers at least once or twice a month, tongue weights between 50 and 700 pounds with no issues.

These are very quiet also, the engine noise is louder than the tires.

Overall, very good purchase. These are bounds better that the OE Bridgestone and better (for my purpose) than the APT.

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As an update, I sit with 40k miles on these. I have around 40% tread left. I still feel I would get between 60k and 80k if I ran them to the wear bars and lived somewhere like Texas...I will not get them much further before replacement for our PA winter.

Siping is starting to wear out of the tread at this point and I think either the tires have gotten into a harder compound or have just gotten harder with age. This in itself is making the tires slippery on wet roads...I can break them loose easily from a stop.

They still handle well, ride well, are wearing excellent, and carry weight well. I would highly recommend these for someone who sees limited snow.

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crankman · September 1, 2017

Good review I want to dump my AT tires and go back to highway radial tire. I started looking around haven't decided on anything yet. Our area doesn't see much snow and usually just hit and miss on ice days. We do get rain slicked up roads fairly regular. I go down to our camp every weekend it has gravel and dirt roads but they get sloppy during heavy traffic times when we had rain.