Best Mud Tire Milage

[osker75]

I was just wondering what mud tire would happen to get the best milage

 

[410Fortune]

good question.

I assume street mileage?

There are many things you can do to increase the miles you get from MT's but not many MTs last long.

Maybe start a poll with the top brands as choices?
Goodyear MTR
BFG MT
Swamper TrXus
Yoko Geolander
Pro Comp Xterrain and MT
BFG Krawler
Mickey T MT

are a few I would like some feedback on

 

[Derrick C.]

I got 15K miles outta my Boggers on my last set.

 

[NOTAJP]

Anything that is a Radial will last longer on the street. Anything with Interco on the side won't.

The biggest concern for any tire is heat. Heat is what wears out a tire. There are many factors that add up to heat disipation. Rubber compound has a lot to do with it. Off-road and racing tires are made with a softer compound for traction, but heat up faster and wear out quickly. Harder rubber compounds resist the melting factor of heat better, which last longer like a standard passenger car tire. Another major factor for off-road tires is siping. You usually hear this term when it comes to wet traction. Siping is the effect of "slicing" a tire or the number of cuts in tread pattern. Mostly there for water disipation but also for cooling. When air gets between chunks of rubber, it cools it off. Mud tires have large lugs to grip the terra firma. These large lugs generate massive amounts of heat on the pavement which is what wears them out. You can have a set of MTs siped at most local tire dealers.

I can tell you that the Goodyear MTR and the BFG MT/KMs do get some pretty good milage for a MT. The ProComp MTs already have sipes in the center lugs as well as the Swamper SSRs. The Geolanders just suck period and don't last long. I don't have any experience with the Xterrains though. I only got about 15k miles out of my Mickey Ts. Don't even think about milage with the Krawler. It has one intention: Rocks, not pavement.

 

[unclemeat]

My Goodyear MTRs got over 40k and should get at least 50k maybe more. They are balenced and rotated every 5k.

 

[jimbo74]

as others have said, MT tires best serve their purpose off road.... expect to get about 1/2 or even a 1/4 of what you owuld get versus a regular street or all terrain tire

 

[ALLOUTWAR13]

My friend has Mickey T Baja Claw Radials on his jeep and he has driven 80000 miles and they still have half tread left and that includes alot of wheeling too. I just got my Mickey Ts and they have 1000 on them and the paint is still on the treads from marking the mount and balance haha.

 

[Ken Cooke]

Originally posted by ALLOUTWAR13
My friend has Mickey T Baja Claw Radials on his jeep and he has driven 80000 miles and they still have half tread left and that includes alot of wheeling too.

This shows that the weight of the vehicle also has lots to do with tire mileage too. My Interco TrXuS Mts have 3,000 mi. on them, and the 1st tread stage is half worn down. There are 5 tread stages on these tires, and I hear repeatedly that they last 35,000 mi. My last set of 'Swampers were TSL-SXs. These looked great on my Ranger at the time, and they grabbed anything on the trail. The downside was they lasted me 21,000 mi. and that was with balancing the tires every 5K mi. On the upside, my Jeep doesn't have a problematic TTB frontend that pulled to the right like my Ranger used to - so, I'm expecting better mileage from whatever tire I choose...

-Ken

 

[Stic-o]

my Jeep doesn't have a problematic TTB frontend that pulled to the right like my Ranger used to - so, I'm expecting better mileage from whatever tire I choose...

Ahhh yes TTB! My old ranger use to have 75% more ware on my right front then the rear and the left was 50% I went through BFG M/T's in about 10k but that was a stock size. my 31" PC MT's lasted about 35k-40k.

I want to go with a MT next also curious about millage. This is why I have bought BFG AT's. However I am Thinking about going to MTR"S next. Although I've been so faithful to BFG

 

[rfuree11]

15k miles on my geolandar m/t's and they still have half their life left

 

[Lefy]

My pro comp mt wear pretty good i got proboboly aboutr 6mounths worth of driving maybe 6 k not much wear at all..

they grip awesome too

 

[Alec]

My ProComp XTerrains would have probably gone 45-50k. This includes a couple cross-country trips which kill tires.