315 Best Tires?

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Right Turn Clyde said:
As a side note, my friend has raved for years about the Trxus. He is a finicky old guy who has to lock into Lo to get up his muddy, deep-rutted and snow (3'+) driveway. And he has raved on that tire for how it does in those conditions.
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Your friend is right. What you may not rave about is long 75 mph stretches, although quite frankly mine did fine, it's >80 mph that these things just don't work.

If you don't see deep snow or much mud and really want the road function, I'd be looking at Toyo MT and Nitto Terra Grappler.

You want sticky on everything and don't mind the wear that comes with a soft tire, Trxus is a great choice. I'd sipe MTR's if I had them.
 
Nay said:
I'll be interested to see if I agree with you given how sticky my Trxus were. But you've got constant rain and mud, lots of moisture in your snow, I have dry conditions and dry (powder) snow.

The Toyo MT is an upscale of the MTR. It's going to be a rock tire, as in Southwestern rock tire, at its best. Never heard anybody say anything great about the MTR as a mud tire, either. I don't think any of these "all terrain MT's" would be terribly good in the PNW.

I hope I'm not disappointed, although if I am I'm sure I can sell these in a heartbeat and get another set of Trxus MT's and only lose about $20 a tire.
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I hope that your not disappointed, Nay. Just be warned, they are not sticky. Even when it's dry... And they get worse the older they get. :mad: If you look at most of my pics, you will see a lot of tire smoke!:grinpimp:
 
CreeperSleeper said:
I hope that your not disappointed, Nay. Just be warned, they are not sticky. Even when it's dry... And they get worse the older they get. :mad: If you look at most of my pics, you will see a lot of tire smoke!:grinpimp:
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I think I should have just done the 37x12.5x16 trxus :grinpimp:.

Of course, how round could those things really be?
 
I curretnly run 285/75 Yokohama Geolandar M/T on Mickey Thompson Challenger rims. Very satisfied so far and quiter than the BFG M/T I ran previously. Just got them in for a month. Also balanced out fine and easily.

The cons is they are directional tires. You need to keep rotating them properly for the longivity.
 
ok, my fzj is my DD so i am going to be off a bit on tires since i wheel my taco

in middle georgia where i live its nothing but mud, we get snow like once a decade so i have no idea how they do in snow but its swampers or nothing here. i have run radial TSLs, bias plys TSL, boggers and then various types of "mud" tires like bfg, maxxis, goodyear... ect on trucks over the years and nothing compares to a swamper in the mud. i know thats not what you are looking for but its all the info i can give :)
 
:crybaby:needed help please,i am putting on 33" super swamper tsl bias tire on my 96 fj 80.don't know what air pressure should it be for 10 miles highway to work everyday in winter and don't have any idea how good they are on snows and also planning to heat iron grooves the threads.Thanks any advice
 
so far on the 80 ive run
MTR's-- 285's--came w/ truck--louder than IROK on road and not grippy enough in our SE trails offroad
BFG at's- 315--1200 new w/ warranty (4)--last forever, quite and fast on the hwy, havent trailed em
Trxus- 35's--1600 new w/ warranty (5)--AWESOME, great offroad and respectable offroad, decent life
IROK's- 36.9--bought used--mmmmmmeaty, loud and wandering on hwy, go bout anywhere offroad

I second a vote for the Nitto Terra Grapplers or the Coopers STT's for consideration
You got PM as well
 
i have a set of nitto terragrapplers--315 r16. This is probably my fault for being lazy but i have not been able to get them balanced.....but, i have only used dynabeads in them with no weights. The dynabeads have not done the trick and i get a nice wobble around 65 mph. i should take them in and have them properly balanced with a few weights.

They seem to be wearing quicker than i would like, but not really bad.

Offroad, i have been really surprised. These tires go really well offroad. If you air them down they will grab very well.

Onroad, they are just as noisy as my truxus. I was surprised about that.

for overall dual purpose use i would rate them 3.5 out of 5. I also bought mine used (PO mounted them and realized they were too big for his tow rig) so price is not comparable.
 
concretejungle said:
i have not been able to get them balanced.....but, i have only used dynabeads in them with no weights. The dynabeads have not done the trick and i get a nice wobble around 65 mph. i should take them in and have them properly balanced with a few weights.
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You probably already know this, but you can't balance the tires with weights and beads. At least, that's what I've read and that's what I've been told, it's one or the other.


Have you tried different weights of beads?
 
Ebag333 said:
You probably already know this, but you can't balance the tires with weights and beads. At least, that's what I've read and that's what I've been told, it's one or the other.


Have you tried different weights of beads?
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hmmm, really? I did not know that.

I have tried two types of internal weight, one being more of a powder and the second being almost the size of BBs'. Neither have really done the trick. :bang:
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concretejungle said:
hmmm, really? I did not know that.
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I guess it has to do with it throwing the computer off.


concretejungle said:
I have tried two types of internal weight, one being more of a powder and the second being almost the size of BBs'. Neither have really done the trick. :bang:
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The powder is not a good solution IMHO. Lots of big rig trucks use it, and I've heard of tractors using calcium to help keep lots of weight down low (rather than balancing) to assist with side-hilling. Too messy and prone to getting damp with our use.


How much weight are you using for the dynamic media?
 
You need to laterally balance with weights, and then the beads can handle the rest. Beads cannot do anything for any lateral issues.
 
I would stay away from the Maxxis Bighorn/Mud Dawgs. I have the 315's and have problems with chunking and tearing sidewalls. I only use them for trail and since Easter weekend I have gone thru two sliced sidewalls and about to have a third. the outer edge tread lugs have all chunked to a certain extent. I not very happy with these tires.

Just my $.02

tONy
 
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Mr. MoM said:
I would stay away from the Maxxis Bighorn/Mud Dawgs. I have the 315's and have problems with chunking and tearing sidewalls. I only use them for trail and since Easter weekend I have gone thru two sliced sidewalls and about to have a third. the outer edge tread lugs have all chunked to a certain extent. I very happy with these tires.

Just my $.02

tONy
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Guess you meant to say "I'm not very happy with these tires" :confused:
 
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