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Best mud tire for street and weekend wheeling.

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Offline WAZUK

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Re: Best mud tire for street and weekend wheeling.
« Reply #30 on: March 18, 2007, 10:27:31 AM »
I see the origininal poster is from Washington State my suggestion would be go to your local Les Schwab Dealer and tell him what your requirements are, I'm sure he can supply you wiith something to fill your needs.  If you have problems with the tires the good thing about Schwab is you can walk into any of there stores and get service almost anywhere in the Northwestern US.
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Re: Best mud tire for street and weekend wheeling.
« Reply #31 on: March 18, 2007, 10:48:29 AM »
Quote from: geeeeoooo on March 14, 2007, 10:20:16 PM
i know this is going to sound really weird to all.....
but i bought a set of tires from www.high-tec-retreading.com......have about 6,000 miles and no wear showing on them at all, these things are wearing like iron!! i've had them since october, and run them thru their paces.....conquered mud, ice, snow all real well....the other cool thing about them is they dont need to be balanced at all, because of the way their made they are perfectly balanced, unlike a brand new tire....best of all mine were $260 shipped to my house....i opted for the most aggressive tire, the OTR MUD 235/75/15.....this is a daily driver as well

The thought of running recaps or retreads literally scares the hell out of me as an Ex or Retired Over the Road Driver I've seen to many failures of retreads on the drivers much less on a steering axle to seriously consider the use of them.  In Many states it's against the law to even use retreads on a steering axle due to their high failure rate.   I know a lot of tire stores won't even consider mounting them on a steering axle for that very reason on an over the road rig much less a passenger car.
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Re: Best mud tire for street and weekend wheeling.
« Reply #32 on: March 18, 2007, 05:53:37 PM »
I bought a set of Pro Comp MT's 31 x 10.50's last fall on the buy 3 get one free sale at nsor.com.  They came out to something like $600 cdn shipped and arrived in less than a week.  Took them to cdn tire and got them mounted and balanced for another $60.

They have this deal running again for the month of March

This winter they have been great and I hardly noticed a difference between them and my old 205 75's.  Maybe it is because they were brand new but often the roads are snow and ice covered and I didn't really have any issues with them at all.

I don't know how they wear because i only used them through one winter.  Noise and ride is pretty good too.
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Re: Best mud tire for street and weekend wheeling.
« Reply #33 on: March 19, 2007, 05:56:44 AM »
I'm going to be ordering these in a week or two:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=General&tireModel=Grabber+AT+2&vehicleSearch=false&partnum=175SR5GRAT2OWL&fromCompare1=yes&place=3

I buy all my tires at tirerack & have been pleased with the quality & price.
The reviews on this tire seem pretty good & they have a good treadwear rating, so, I guess I'll see how they work next time I go up to camp
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Re: Best mud tire for street and weekend wheeling.
« Reply #34 on: March 20, 2007, 10:27:58 AM »
Weird, I'm not getting notifications of replies. ???

We were running about 26psi.  Any higher and the side lugs wouldn't have even been touching.

It wasn't a psi issue, it was a crappy quality control issue.  Then it became a customer service issue...never again.



Check eBay, I got a set of 225/75R16 Kumho muds for the wife's XL7 for $350 delivered to my door.

Oh yeah, I highly recommend siping the tires.  Either pay to have a tire place do it or buy a knife and do it yourself (what I did).  Makes a world of difference.  All I own are MT's now.
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Re: Best mud tire for street and weekend wheeling.
« Reply #35 on: March 20, 2007, 11:04:18 AM »
Quote from: WAZUK on March 18, 2007, 10:48:29 AM
The thought of running recaps or retreads literally scares the hell out of me as an Ex or Retired Over the Road Driver I've seen to many failures of retreads on the drivers much less on a steering axle to seriously consider the use of them.  In Many states it's against the law to even use retreads on a steering axle due to their high failure rate.   I know a lot of tire stores won't even consider mounting them on a steering axle for that very reason on an over the road rig much less a passenger car.

Are there any standards for retreading tyres in the US? In the UK we have (IIRC) a British Standard. Years ago retreads on passenger vehicles used to be considered quite unreliable. Their official speed rating was only 50mph. The technology (the glue?) has improved over the years and most remoulds are rated at 90mph (there is a load rating too). Remoulded MTs are commonly used over here and failures seem to be quite low. I ran Colway MTs for around 12,000 miles without any real problems, I had some cracking of the tread but I'm certain that that was because I ran them under pressure a couple of times.
I think that pretty much all lorry tyres are remoulded up to three times.
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Re: Best mud tire for street and weekend wheeling.
« Reply #36 on: March 29, 2007, 09:55:59 PM »
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Kumho&tireModel=Road+Venture+MT+834

The Road Venture MT 834 is an Off-Road Maximum Traction category light truck tire designed to provide "take you anywhere" off-road traction with "bring you home again" highway manners. The Road Venture MT 834 was developed to meet the needs of pickup truck and sport utility vehicle drivers, as well as, off-road racers who desire maximum off-road traction.


you cant beat these for the money.
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Re: Best mud tire for street and weekend wheeling.
« Reply #37 on: March 29, 2007, 11:03:44 PM »
I like Cooper A/T's.  Bought on 215's for my SJ410 for under $300.
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Re: Best mud tire for street and weekend wheeling.
« Reply #38 on: March 30, 2007, 12:15:14 PM »
I don't know if re-caps are anymore failure prone than new tires.

I haven't worn out a tire in years. When they get over 5 years old they fly apart. The tire dealers around here will only pro-rate or replace them under warranty during the first five years.

I'm talking about new tires, not re-caps.

Driving on California freeways might be part of the problem. But I don't remember this being a problem until the last 10 years or so.

Maybe the EPA ordered a change in tire materials like they did to auto paint a few years ago, causing all those Chevy and Ford paint failures.
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