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chill will

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Looking for input on the flowing tires. I'm going with a 255/85/16 and theses are the tires I can choose from. I've read many reviews and everyone has some good and bad to say on each tire. So asking you guys who wheel in the northeast if you have had any of these tires and your thoughts. They will be going on a 4Runner.
Toyo Open MT
Maxxis Bighorn MT
Interco Trxus MT
BF Goodrich MT T/A KM2
Cooper Discoverer ST
 
Well taking size out of it what did you run and which did you like better?
 
The Trxus were probably the best all round tire but balanced like s***.

I drove a truck with the KM2s and they weren't as quiet but not that bad at all and if the balanced well I would take them over the Trxus
 
I had a set of trxus in that size and will not do that again for a daily driver . Two would never balance , while they were not noisy their road manners were not great, i did not trust them on the highway. Very heavy tire yet i still had punctures and two beads always leaked these were mounted new on new steel wheels so it should have been better. If your forerunner is going to see mostly trail or be an around town truck they would be an ok choice

Jason
 
have u looked at procomp mt2? great offroad, pretty quiet on road.
BFG is always a good tire
 
FWIW....

I have run 255/85/16 KM2s on two trucks and felt they performed very well on everything except snow and greasy mud. Remarkably quite on tarmac, amazing lock up on gravel. In CR they are near perfect. Strong likelihood will be buy them again. But would only run in northeast if I had a set of snows for winter.

A few years back, I wheel a RRC for a weekend with Truxus and was very impressed. Sticky on rock and paddled well thru mud. Not too bad on noise, but my level of tolerance is high. They are very sipped so they ought to perform well in snow. They may be the silver bullet to a 4 season offroad tire.

Currently running grooved TSL radials on "Oscar" and I am very impressed how they perform on all surfaces, including snow. IMO better than the coveted Duratrac on snow. Perhaps the best true off-road tire I have ever owned. But, on the noisy side of things, more so than Truxus.

A buddy runs Bighorns on a Jeep in CR, he loves them. Says they wear like iron. He keeps up with me with with my KM2s :)
 
Ok this is where I wonder if they changed something with the Trxus? Most review were split like Rick and Jason. Most of the older review didn't like the street ride and were noting a Lou of sidewall blowout. The more recent reviews were saying overall good tire. How long ago did each of you have these?
 
Niall besides the climate and lack of snow how is the terrain in Costa Rica compared to here. Wondering about the Bighorns how they would fair up here.
 
I've been researching tires A LOT in the last yr. and, truxxs MT is a great tire per reviews. The toyo MT is a VERY popular tough as nail tire. Both tires are heavier than average. Prob. not that bad in the size you are interested in though. Too many choices on tires IMO. I don't do well making decisions when there are too many options. I research to death and end up reading in circles. After my year of reading I on a whim ended up with some used 37" BFG Krawlers blues.
 
The Toyo's are the heaviest at 60lbs, then the Bighorn's at 57. Trxus 53, BF 51, & the coopers 49lbs. At first I was leaning towards the Trxus then the Big Horns or Toyos. But like you said Scott too many reviews got me spinning. So I figure I ask you guys if anyone has had these in the same area I am in.
 
chill will said:
Niall besides the climate and lack of snow how is the terrain in Costa Rica compared to here. Wondering about the Bighorns how they would fair up here.
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Off road geology and road challenge in CR is similar to VT, but all sedimentary and igneous rock, no metamorphic. IMO, generally equal in danger to sidewall tear out chunking. But conditions go from bone dry (like SW) in winter months to epic jungle grease in rainy season even on public roads. CR has worst in all of central america. Honduras seems to have the best.

50% of what I drive on down there are semi maintained gravel road and 30% unmainatained roads (i.e. Vt type class 4). Then the rest of my time is on the "trails", which are basically un engineered paths thru jungle. In the rainy season you are pretty much winching thru grease on most "trails", like spring soil up no'th... Some guys down there run mud tires in the rainy season only, like we run snow tires up here, 8 months a year its dry and ATs are fine for 90%.

Moisture content makes a huge difference down there. The volcanic rock seems to mill down finer than the metamorphic we have up here, and with it comes more capillary action and "mud suction" when it gets wet. Pretty much nothing works well in it.

My buddy who runs Bighorns likes them for wearability on the dry gravel roads and price. Where he lives the closest tarmac is 30 miles away. He gets 50K kilometers out of set. He prefers them over the Mich XZLs he has on this Defender. Big horns are hard and my get harder in the cold. 255/85/16 KM2 s in CR are $420 each so very few people have'm.

I am considering KM2s for my UZJ100 (ditching the duratracs), but I have a set a snows for it. If I didn't I'd be looking hard at Truxus.
 
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love my cooper stts, never lose air, little loud, last forever, decent in snow, good on road
never liked the trxxus, softer, wear fast, always loaded up in mud
bfg always good results
 
cruiserland said:
love my cooper stts, never lose air, little loud, last forever, decent in snow, good on road
never liked the trxxus, softer, wear fast, always loaded up in mud
bfg always good results
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Hey Kina I was originally going with the same size tire and going to get the Cooper STT now that I'm changing size they don't offer the STT in a 255 just the ST.
 
cruiserland said:
never liked the trxxus, softer, wear fast, always loaded up in mud
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Come to think of it....Rick's old 80 had Truxus on it when I bought, and, last fall on a moderately wet day at Deadfall, they load up pretty fast. Granted they were <50% worn, but I was surprised. The TSLs with 20% wear are much better in mud, but I know thats not a completely fair comparison.

The more I think about it, don't think one off road tire will do everything well in NE.

Ok....I'll stop posting :)
 
the trxus was absolutely fantastic on my trip to Moab. Smooth and quiet on highway and plenty of traction on the slick rock. But that is a completely different set of parameters.

they were a lot better when new in the mud but still not as good as other mud tires.

I would rank your needs and then pick a tire that works best. If noise is absolutely no concern then the choices for a great mud tire really open up.
 
Well Rick I am limiting myself to the tires listed in the first post due to availability in that size. I do have a 2nd set of street tires that I swap out when not wheeling. So I'm looking for a long lasting tire that is good for the New England type of wheeling. Add to that decent road manners since I don't trailer the 4Runner. Based on this I'm gathering that the Trxus are not the way to go. Anyone have any expire emcees with the Toyo's? A few jeep friends have them and like them but never had a different tire to compare them to.
 
I ran toyo AT before and they were great on highway, quiet and in snow performed awesome. Now i run bfg at, great in snow not much louder, more expensive but my last set of bfg at lasted me about 75k miles
 
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