Mike Melton tests the new Goodyear Wildpeak AT4W tire on a Road Force balancer. It shows minimal hop, a peak force of 16 lb, and needs only about 2 oz of total balance correction. The tire balances well and gets strong reviews for snow traction.
All right, a lot of people like this tire right here. This is the brand new Wildpeak AT4W. So a lot of people speak highly of this tire and they like how the traction is as far as the snow. Let's go ahead and test these things out on the Road Force machine. Now before that, let's go over the sidewall of these tires. All right, on this side you see it's got the raised black letters. Sometimes they're white letters. These are raised black letters. That looks pretty good. This side, they're real faint. All right, now before we go to the Road Force machine, take your damn stickers off. All right, now we got this thing set up on the Road Force. Let's see how these things do. All right, we got it spinning. There's not too much hop, so that looks pretty good to us so far. All right, now we got that roller on there. Let's see in real time, no edits or anything. Let's see what these things come up to. Roller's coming off now. Here we are, we're at 16 pounds of force. That's good. There's no radial runout at all in that tire. This thing's only calling for 3/4 of an ounce here and an ounce and a quarter on the left side, so that ain't too bad. So if you like these tires, I kind of understand why. They balance out good. As far as snow traction, I don't know about it, but a lot of people say they're good.
