Falken Wildpeak - Tire Pricing

Brother had them on his F350 and loved them. Not really an Apple to Apple composition for a tundra. But they towed in that just fine

 

The Wildpeaks are made out of 3 main plants and a back up. Wildpeaks are made in Thailand, Japan, and USA. On certain sizes (and only on occasion to meet demand), some of the Wildpeaks will come out of China. Production and size of USA plant is increasing since we absorbed it from Goodyear. In the next few years, we'll depend on our American plant to supply tires with only Thailand and Japan provide the additional supply.

 

I love wildpeaks and wanted to buy some in 275/65r20 size till I saw the price. I’m going with Cooper rugged treks this time

 

I am happy to hear that Falken is stepping away from China production. Would happily spend my money on Falkens made in the USA.

 

Riding the falken for several months now. No issue so far! Probably the best so far out of all I’ve been through…km3, ko2, and nitto

 

On July 16, 2021 I paid $317.00 each for 285/75R/17 Wildpeak AT3W tires. They were a little cheaper that Les Schwab Open Range ATs which are comparable to the Wildpeaks. Now the Wildpeaks are 361.00. The Les Schwab Open Range are $382.84 each. I have the Open Range on our 4Runner and F250. I have the Wildpeaks on my Tundra. I much prefer the Wildpeak over the Open Range because they are super close in quality but the price is a lot lower on the Wildpeak. Inflation is killing us.

 

Wildpeaks are $430 CAD each here for 275/70/18. I really like everything I hear about the Wildpeaks, but Cooper AT3 XLT's are $100 cheaper per tire. I'll be going with the Coopers.

 

Supply and demand baby! If I could charge more for something I made that everyone wanted I would. It’s a business and that’s kind of how they work.

 

I should clarify that I really want a set of 35x12.5x17’s but won’t be buying them due to the price.

 

I tow ~8k lbs with them on my '19 Limited, 275/70/18 E-range. Know your scale numbers, reach out to customer service with stock tire size and pressures, new tire size, provide the axle weights loaded and unloaded, and they'll tell you where to run them. Chalk test and wear at 12k miles are both showing the tires are happy with the numbers provided.

 

I hope you have better experience with the Coopers than I did. I put Discoverer AT3's on my 2013 Tundra Rock Warrior. Initially, they were great. Very good traction, low noise, great in rain and decent in light snow. After 10K miles, they started to get louder and this got worse as the mileage increased. In addition wet traction got worse. My off road experience is mainly unpaved state forest roads and sugar sand on roads in NJ Pine Barrens. The AT3's were OK in both. My complaint is that their great initial all around performance degraded pretty quickly after the first 10K miles. By 25K, I was ready to toss them even though they had plenty of tread left. Since then, I have tried KO2's and am about to get Geolander G015's. I wanted to try the Falkens but the price was too high.

 

When I got my wildpeaks, everything was about the same price for name brand. Glad I bought when I did. Def worth it

 

Wildpeaks are heavy duty, beefy and weigh more than many other brands in the same size. You will have no issue towing with them.