Need to upgrade tires: AT P vs. C load?

[thatoneguy]

Yup but surely not me. I have done Fins and Things, Elephant Hill, Kamikaze, among others, and the Maze on P-metric Wildpeaks. I have done 1,200 dirt miles in Montana including dozens of miles over sticks and tree branches, no issues. All the Sedona trails. No issues.

But there are 2 massive problems I had with my total 7 Wildpeak tires:
1/ Their good thread only lasted 10,000 miles at most
2/ They pop like popcorn in the SW parts of Arizona.

In fact, longevity was so bad, I had broken it down here before:

Up to 5,000 miles "best tire ever"
5 to 10,000 miles: "great tire"

10-15,000 miles "oh, really?"
15,000 miles+: searching for replacement.

So I had it with Wildpeaks when the experience repeated.

Thanks for the reply. I've started hearing about tread life with the Wildpeaks, especially P metric Wildpeaks, so I'll see how it goes for me. I'll be hounding them about paying out on that 55,000 mile (presumably prorated) treadwear guarantee/warranty if I don't manage to get at least 30,000 miles out of them.

For my first set, I wanted the comfiest yet best performing stock size all terrain I could find, and I ended up P metric Wildpeak AT3W with that criteria. Depending on how this first set goes, we'll see how I feel about upsizing, LT C's, LT E's etc a couple years in the future. I would say these things drive no worse on pavement than the Dunlop AT-20 Grandtreks the truck came on, and I appreciate that. I still don't like that LT C 265 KO2s have a lower load index than the factory tires, but they're LT's so they're not hit by that 10% load penalty that using P metrics in an SUV/truck application apparently carries, so they probably work out equal or on top. I don't think I've heard of people popping LT C KO2s on 5th gens over load index reasons.