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I've been in tire manufacturing for 20 years now, First with Bridgestone and then Continental. Something to think about when looking for off the road or mud tires is a company's specialty or where do they spend their research dollars and their sponsorship dollars. Bridgestone makes a very good regular old light truck tire and Continental does not. Conti makes very good ultra high performance tires. When something like mudding or off roading became hot we could make a tire pretty quickly in a General ATX2 or a Grabber. It didn't mean we spent a lot of money on it or did a lot of research on it but we knew how to build tires.
I would look for tires from companies that really get specialized into light truck, of road and mud tires and also sponsor a lot of professional race teams. Sponsorship is where they learn.
BFG - great off road tires and you'll pay a lot for that
Maxxis tires - great off road tires and priced good
Mickey Thompson -great off road tires and priced good
Nokian tires - great MT tire and priced great
Super Swampers - great all around
These are just a few that do it and also do it well. Yok is a "good tire" no doubt but they would much prefer to spend their research dollars on performance tires where they sell the most units.
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