- First off,
what I really like about this Cooper Rugged Trek
is there is plenty of voids in between all the tread lugs.
That's gonna give you that extra off-road performance
or when you're in the deep snow or on the ice
that's really gonna help make these tread lugs bite
and evacuate that loose dirt, that snow, water, mud
whatever it may be
it's really gonna help evacuate that out of there.
Now, another thing with these tread voids
in between all these lugs is the fact that
they are pretty deep
and Cooper rates them at about 16, 30 seconds
of that tread depth, so pretty cool there.
Another thing that I really like about this tread design
is all the different sipes
that they have throughout all the tread lugs.
As you can see they're squiggly sipes on the shoulder lugs
and then all of the sipes
and that they're actually in a triangle shape pattern
on all the center treads themselves.
So this is gonna give you that excellent traction
when you're in the inclement weather
like rain or ice, snow or anything like that.
So pretty cool design there
and being a hybrid tire
you're getting that combination of a mud tire
and an all-terrain tire.
So a couple of different things that they did here
to reduce the road noise is
one is their variable pitch pattern.
So they have their pitches of the contact patch
hitting the road just right
to really help calm down that road noise.
Another thing they did too,
what's kinda neat is they put in sound barriers,
there's little ridges in between all the shoulder lugs here
and what that does is
when that center tread contact patch hits the pavement
and makes that slapping sound, these barriers,
these sound barriers in between all the shoulder lugs
will help isolate that noise and keep it inside of there.
So kind of a neat thing that they did there
that I haven't seen on any other tire design out there.
Another thing that they did on these Rugged Treks
is put all these little ridges
in between all the shoulder lugs
and what that's designed to do
is it's designed to add some extra protection
against sharp rocks or any kind of sharp objects
from puncturing through the bottom of the tread layer here.
So, and it also does keep the stones
from sticking in there as well
and another thing that Cooper has done is
they've designed this tread pattern to improve handling
and stability with what they're calling an Omni-design
or an Omnidirectional tread pattern
and basically that just means that the shoulder lugs
and the center treads are all working together
to help the stability of the overall tire.
It's not gonna flex or fold too much in one way
or the other direction.
So it gives it a nice stable footprint
which is really nice for when your air down off road.
So another thing to hear guys is
that they have all these little ridges
all the way around the inside tread voids
of these tread blocks.
That also helps with stones from being stuck in there.
It helps eject them out of there
so you're not carrying a bunch of gravel inside your tire
if you're doing a lot of driving on gravel roads
and then plus too, you can see that the shapes
of these tread lugs are designed to really bite.
So as the tire is rotating,
your treads are biting at the ground gripping
and grabbing at every rotation.
So nice even tread design here
nice and aggressive tread design.
This tire works really well
if you're gonna be doing a lot of on-road
and off-road driving combined.
So then with their Omnidirectional tread pattern
the shoulder lugs are also designed in an angled pattern
so that you get that scooping
and grabbing and biting grip design of the shoulder lugs
and they're also staggered
on the outer edge of the shoulder lugs
and what that's really great for
is for when you're going through the mud.
What happens is each one of these corners
of the shoulder lugs is gonna act as a scoop.
So it's gonna grab, dig and scoop that mud out of the way
and then the ones that are more inner will have
a angled ejection pad,
I'll call it to really help get that mud
and snow from the shoulder lugs
and then running down from the shoulder lugs
into the sidewall,
Cooper also has put a pretty aggressive
sidewall tread pattern design on here.
Really great when you get into those grooves
that help with that extra traction
or even when you're airing down off-road
it does act as an extra tread contact patch.
So pretty aggressive tire yet still pretty tame on the road
and guys these are gonna be super popular.
We know Cooper is a great selling tire for us.
So with that said,
we still don't have availability of these tires
just quite yet or even pricing on them.
However, we are gonna be updating our website
as soon as they become available.
You can find them at trailbuiltoffroad.com
and then just search the Cooper Discovers Rugged Trek.
So other than that guys,
if you do have any opinions on this tread pattern,
let us know in the comments below
or if you guys do have any questions
make sure and let us know and besides that guys,
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and guys as always we appreciate all of you for watching
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I'm Josh from Trail Built
and we'll see you guys out in the trails.
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