Mud Tire Selection / Help me out

[tblume]

The 33 " X 8 BFG AT's I had on my '60 were awesome, not mudders by any stretch, but adequate even in southern Or. red clay when they got down there and digging. very good in snow, good on road, wear like iron.

tall skinnys IMHO; MT or good AT are where it's at 'round here.

[Nay]

Originally Posted by whodat

Thin is in...

True, in the sense that anorexia is also in

[nicholas]

Originally Posted by GeoRoss

A friend ran the Geolander AT's here in AZ for many years and had no complaints. Not the mud you referred to though so take that for what it is worth.


He went to 35's in the cooper sst and has noticed a lot of chunking and has had two sidewall punctures. The Coopers are great tires, just don't expect to get more than 25 or 30K on them.

I've put about 20K (mostly street) on my 285 cooper sst's and I would say they have at least 75% tread left on them. I am rotating in a spare, so that has to be factored in. They have been a great all around tire, but I haven't been on any slick rock or big rocks with them, just sand dunes and dirt/small rock trails, snow and ice. I met a guy who had them on a newer F150 and he had over 35K on them and there was at least 50% of the tread left on all the tires and they wore perfectly. However, I am unsure how much wheeling he did.

[Nay]

Originally Posted by Hulk

This is just one case, and the rigs were different, but after watching a Rubicon jk get completely stuck on MTZ's in the snow spinning all four, and being slowly extracted by a Disco (which was struggling, but nowhere near as badly) with open diffs running BFG AT's, I will never buy these tires.

They did not self clean at all, it's actually been awhile since I've seen a tire perform that poorly in deep snow that has decent lug spacing and tread depth. Spin, pack, stuck. Over and over again.

[EnriqueAutana]

36" Super Swampers TSL

[4LLC]

i had the geolander m/t when they first came out they were amazing offroad on road they were smooth
riding the only problem was i got 10k out of them and they were completly worn out i contacted yokohama and all i got was a oh well from them i won't buy yokohama again

[douglashuft]

The cooper stt's are working just fine. Seem to work well on the street, in the light snow, rock crawling and the little bit of mud i have been in. A perfectly adequate "all terrain" tire so far.