Mike Melton tests the Falken Wildpeak A/T4W on a road-force machine. The tire shows 16 lb of force, zero radial run-out, and needs only 0.75 oz and 1.25 oz balance weights. It has a reputation for strong snow traction.
A lot of people like this tire right here. This is the brand new Wildpeak at 4W. 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. 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 roadforce 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. Rollers coming off now. Here we are. We're at 16 pounds of force. That's good. There's no radial run out at all in that tire. This thing's only called 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.
