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Best tire for a double duty rig

What is the best double duty tire?

  • Tsl Radial

    Votes: 5 8.8%

  • SSR Swamper

    Votes: 4 7.0%

  • Bfg Mud terrian

    Votes: 45 78.9%

  • IROC radial

    Votes: 3 5.3%
  • Total voters
    57
Fabrimacator21

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I'm leaning towards the TSL radial. Are there any downsides to it? I.E. Shallow tread, short life etc?

I've also been looking at these

BFG mud terrains
SSR Swampers
IROC Radials

Which is best offroad with decent life?

Also how do the tsl sx's wear on road compared to the tsl radials?
 
I have 38"x15.5 on 16.5x9.75 steelies. The radials wear pretty good. I have over 15000 mi. on mine, but I bought 5 and rotate them regularly. Still have about 1/4"-3/8" tread left. They are not as deep a tread and they are closer together in the center blocks than the bias ply. Pretty good all around, but I think I will go to the Iroks when these wear out. I'm assuming they are allittle more aggressive than mine. The radials lost traction on a hillside climb when I hit some clay.

Overall though, I am pretty happy with the radials. I gotta run an errand, but I will take some pics of the treads when I get back!
 
Dont get the SSR's, I had them in the 35x14.5 flavor and they sucked. They were shot within 15k miles, loud, bumpy, bad traction in wet weather, not that great offroad. Now I have 38x15.5 TSL/R's and I love em. They are quieter, better traction on & offroad and in the wet, and they arent as bumpy & lumpy. I have ~16k on them now and they still have 55-60% tread. Of course if they are like the SSR's that last half of tread will go really fast.
 
I'd be looking at the BFG KM2 radials, and the latest Goodyear MT-R Kevlar radial also....

They are probably more towards the "road" side of the equation than the other stuff you'd mentioned, and in the larger sizes they get really spendy too. But I'll bet you money that either of them will be WAY nicer on the highway than anything you've already listed, and they'll probably last longer too.... :thinking:


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Slight error in milage on the radials. The first 4 have close to 20,000 miles on them, the last one has about 13,000mi. According to my records, it's been 2 oil changes since I rotated the 5th tire in. So the last tire has about 6000-7000 miles less on it than the other 4.

BTW, these are not babied, the truck they were on before this one had 560+HP. They have been smoked on a regular basis, so far so good.

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Thornturds of course


Actually my friend has the km2's and they are pretty impressive
 
I have always got at least 60K miles on my last 3 sets of 35 inch BFG mud terrains. My new set are 37's I'm sold on BFG tires. Got them on the GN also.
Tarey
 
Thanks for the pics...

I'm gonna have to check out the km2's now. I've shyed away from anything besides interco because of price and they seem to be more on the "offroad" side then any other tires on the market. These will be going on a 20% dd 80% offroad rig.
 
I had 31x10.5 BFG baja radials on a 1995 jeep wrangler. never did any serious wheeling with it, but never got stuck either, and they were fantastic on the street. very smooth and quiet ride, with long tread life.

I currently have 33x12.50 Goodyear MT/R's on the blazer. LOVE them in the mud. i have had the truck up to the tops of the fenders in muddy water and riverbottom without getting stuck. and never have had issues getting through sloppy muddy trails. stock lift, stock everything except the tires. A little louder than the BFG's on the road, but the BFG's werent mud terrain, and most likely wouldnt have been as good offroad. as for wear its hard to say. As its a second vehicle it dosnt get serviced quite like it should. Ive never roated the tires, the rears look like they did when i bought the truck two years ago, and they werent brand new tires. the fronts due to the diesel engine, fast cornering (well faster than i should corner this beast), and probably a screwed up alighnment have all taken their toll on the fronts.
 
well another thing to think about is what kind of wheeling will you be doing? if your in the SW and are mostly on sand or rocks, an AT or street biased mt might be a better choice. something like bfg at or mt, goodyear mtr, cooper discoverer, nitto terra or mud grappler, interco trxus sts or mt, hancook dyna, etc.

if you're in an area that is muddier, stay w/ the mt or even a larger lug like the tsl radial or a v-tread design like the baja claw radial, procomp xterrain or maxis trepador radial.
 
BFG mud hands down for a double duty rig.I've been running them for years and usually get 50K plus on a set.
 
Interco Trxus Mts. I had them a long time ago and I really liked them. Good in the snow too!
 
How do the bfg muds compare to the tsl radials?

Mud will be a big part of it's diet... Also around here alot of trails are shale and they shred tires pretty easy. How do they hold up to sharp rocks?
 
Most people ran them on the ultimate adventure

I think they held up well, I donno
 
I personally use pro comp mts. They cost just a little bit less than the bfgs and are a comparable tire. I ride in mud mostly some silt and ocasional rocks. But mostly mud and dirt. They wear awsome and are pretty road worthy if you dont mind a little whurring going down the road.
 
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