What Tires Do You Run

Wrangler MTR. Excelent tire but not cheap. They won the Moab rock climb the first year they were out. They have a puncture resistant side wall, not to noisy on the highway, amd the mud really flips right out of the tread pattern.
 
35" Goodyear MTRs on my Bronco. Good tire. Has good hookup on the rocks and resists puncture. Frequently run them down around 12-14 psi.

On my F-350 I've been running stock Firestone all terrains (wilderness?) with the E load rating. They seem to work okay for dirt roads and such and are nice and quiet on the highway.
 
I have 2 trucks with Firestone Wilderness A/T's on them. I have also used other types of Bridgestone/Firestone tires. I have never had any that were recalled. I have the wilderness A/T load range E on our 3/4 ton Crew Cab & others on our Tacoma truck. Firestone got more bad press a few years ago that was necessary I think. Lack of driver attention to tires is the biggest problem. I have checked others tires and often find pressure down to the low teens & occasionally metal cords showing.

The one shop commented how during the firestone tire recall people would come in & want their wilderness tires off and they would put an inferior no-name type on.

When I need new tires I first look to Bridgestone firestone. If one uses the correct tires for the vehicle & intended job, check pressure & rotate once in a while they would do fine. It is easy to neglect tires. Now we have yet another added expense soon with the low tire pressure sensor.
 
BFG All Terrains. I have had the Goodyear All Terrains (not sure if they were MTR's?) and they were real good too. I will pay some extra money to have the insurance of great tires when in the wild...........
 
I went out on a limb last year and took the advise of the fellas on here and purchased the Goodyear MTR's and don't have any complaints about them although they are a bit pricey.Outstanding performance though.Where I call it was important to me to get something that would witstand mesquite and cactus thorns and not go flat beyond repair.You won't be sorry if you go with the Wrangler MTR's.Mine aren't the BIG 35's but they do the trick.
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We do lift kits at our shop and have gone through many tires.

I really like the Dunlod Mud Terrains for an inexpensive tire.

The BFG At and the Goodyear MTR's are great tires but a bit more expensive.

If you are going strickly offroad then the Super Swampers (thornbirds and boggers) are the way to go. But they both suck on pavement.
 
I'd avoid the Thornbirds at all costs. Everone I've talked to who has run them on the road stated they are some of the worst handling tires ever. They find and fall into every rut and can make the vehicle very squirrely on the road. Even Boggers handle better than the Thornbirds even though they feel like you are driving on square tires.

As for their off-road ability, nobody in the off-road groups I am with runs them. It's either the Super Swamper TSLs, Goodyear MT/Rs, BFG MTs, or the BFG ATs for the most part. Even out here in the desert where we get hardly any rain and rarely see mud, the mud terrain style tires offer superior hookup and traction than the all-terrain style tires do. However, you have to deal with more road noise and a usually less than perfect balance.
 
Went down to the goodyear store the other day.

They got the MTRs priced at $203 a tire. They look tuff but man that is expensive for a college kid.

What about Cooper. Less expensive and i've heard pretty good things.

Joe
 
My unpaved mountain road doesn't get plowed in winter, but my ridge is a popular 4WD destination, so I often have to travel with a foot or more of chopped up refrozen slush. Would have to say I've done better in my Cherokee with 30 X 9.50 BFG Mud Terrains than anything else I've tried... vastly better than the BFG ATs I had on it before. Run them at 26 lbs. Road handling is better than expected, though a tad noisy. Chains are a real pain to install over the lugs, however.

Tire choice depends on local conditions, of course, but for most everything but loose sandy washes and competitive mud-bogging and rock-crawling, you're actually better off with a narrower tire due to higher contact pressure. Can't tell you how many times I've stopped to help some off-road newbie with fat tires stuck in the ditch on a snowy day...

FWIW--I don't expect to get more than about 20K out of a set of true off-road tires.

LionHo
 
Yote death, go with cooper they are far the best tire if yur going to off road and on rocks, I have a friend that is a dogger "seigns water dogs for a living" he spends more time im first gear out in some of the roughest country you could imagine and he swears by cooper tires. I use them now and say the same thing!
 
Ordered and just received from the Ups man my Goodrich Mud Terrain T/A KM's. 245/R16's. Going on my 03 Ranger FX4 Offroad. I had them on a Ford Explorer Sport in 15 inch....no snow drifts stopped me. Everyone's saying a snowy winter here....I'm ready.

Terry

( Got them from Discount Tire Direct. About $167.00 delivered to my door. Pricey but just wait!)
 
Hey check out the Cooper mud/snow tires. They are about $100. I have used BFG mudders in the past but I can't see spending the extra $60each for them.
 
187,

Which Cooper tire are you refering to? Would it be the Discoverer series? I checked out the Cooper site and I didn't see any with very aggressive tread. Just curious.

Terry
 
TerFisIL,

I'm not sure which tire 187 is taking about. But there are really only two tires that cooper offers in the way of Light/Truck aggressive tires.

They are:

Discoverer SST, which is a solid mud tire with very little siping on the tread. They are comparable to the BFG Mud Terrains.

Discoverer S/T, which is a tire that looks just like the BFG A/T. I think this is the tire i'm gonna go for.

I need that sipeing on the lugs for that slush on the highway. A guy i talked with at the goodyear place told me he's run em all before. He likes the cooper because it seems to hold the most miles and cost alot less.
Joe
 
Joe,

Thanks for the reply. There's a Cooper dealer in town. I'm going to compare the two. But from all I've read the BFG is hard to beat. It's all personal preference...just like Ford over Chevy's ect.

Terry
 
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