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inexpensive 37" rubber?

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Does anyone know of an inexpensive 37" tire option for 15" wheels?
Preferably a harder compound tire as these are going on my DD/weekend warrior and will see a lot of highway miles. I have the maxxis buckshots in a 35" tire now and love them. I wish they made bigger sizes. I got these for 195 a piece brand new. So im lookin to get some 37s under 280 a tire.

Mud terrain btw. No a/t for this guy.
Not going with the military 37s either. The design is archaeic and not my thing.
 
Good luck, from what Ive seen, even 33's are up to the $200+ each range.

Id look used on CL, around here you can get pretty good deals on bigger mud tires.
 
Why the hate on the 37" radial hummer tires? They are a great road tire and you cant beat the price. I've put over 10k miles on mine now, all highway. No complaints
 
A lot are. You can usually haggle a local shop down though.

Toyo open countrys are 299 each. Has anyone played with them in the rocks? Im not opposed to grooving a tire either.
 
muddermilitia said:
Why the hate on the 37" radial hummer tires? They are a great road tire and you cant beat the price. I've put over 10k miles on mine now, all highway. No complaints
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A lot of rotating weight, and I've heard the don't like to wrap around rocks very much. Too stiff.

and I already have my 15" beadlocks. :)
 
too bad Kumho doesn't make them anymore, they had a great MT tire in 37x12.5x15 and it was cheap.
Now they only have them in 17" rim.:doah:
 
CherryK5 said:
Yup, seems like everyone is tailoring to the pavement pounders these days.
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What do 17" rims have to do with pavement pounders?:confused: I (along with MOST of the desert crowd) have been running 17" wheels offroad for nearly a decade. I can run aluminum wheels and not have to use 2" backspacing or grind my calipers to hell. Tires typically come in a higher load range vs. the same tire in a 15" or 16" variety and they are less likely to lose a bead at lower pressure due to more bead surface (~6 1/2" more per bead) and less sidewall leverage against said bead. For that matter, 20" wheels are nothing new offroad either, look at most people that are running rockwells. As you are already seeing, fewer and fewer companies are catering to the large tire/small wheel crowd I would guess mostly because about the only thing that comes with 15" wheels anymore are econobox type cars, the brakes on most newer cars/trucks are usually just too big to fit in the 15" wheel.

Back on subject, Have you looked on racedezert? I have seen a few sets of 37x12.5r15 goodyear mtr's for sale recently. I didn't see anything in the pirate4x4 classifieds recently, but it is a good place to look as well. I'll have to do some more digging to see who is still producing 37"s for a 15" wheel and get back to you. The toyo mt's are good tires, but they seem to be $300+ everywhere that I have looked.
 
Blazinaire said:
What do 17" rims have to do with pavement pounders?:confused: I (along with MOST of the desert crowd) have been running 17" wheels offroad for nearly a decade. I can run aluminum wheels and not have to use 2" backspacing or grind my calipers to hell. Tires typically come in a higher load range vs. the same tire in a 15" or 16" variety and they are less likely to lose a bead at lower pressure due to more bead surface (~6 1/2" more per bead) and less sidewall leverage against said bead. For that matter, 20" wheels are nothing new offroad either, look at most people that are running rockwells. As you are already seeing, fewer and fewer companies are catering to the large tire/small wheel crowd I would guess mostly because about the only thing that comes with 15" wheels anymore are econobox type cars, the brakes on most newer cars/trucks are usually just too big to fit in the 15" wheel.

Back on subject, Have you looked on racedezert? I have seen a few sets of 37x12.5r15 goodyear mtr's for sale recently. I didn't see anything in the pirate4x4 classifieds recently, but it is a good place to look as well. I'll have to do some more digging to see who is still producing 37"s for a 15" wheel and get back to you. The toyo mt's are good tires, but they seem to be $300+ everywhere that I have looked.
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I was talking more about 35's on 20's
but yea. I have some military 40's that fit a 20" rockwell wheel. But that's a different ballgame.
And the 17" I was referring to are the jacked up z71's and the like.

If I had some h2 wheels I would probably run a set of a/t's on them for the highway.

But personally I like the small wheel/ big sidewall look. My tires stick a good 2 inches outside of the fenders and looks mean. I don't like big backspacing so I don't have a problem clearing brakes.
 
How about Military 37's retreaded as MT/R's?

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https://www.treadwright.com/p-81-37x12-50r16-5-guard-dog-m-t.aspx

Trailworthyfab.com is selling them for $175. I need somebody to try them out and let me know how they are...
 
Its not jusyt the tread on the mil tires that is less desireable, it's the crappy sidewalls. So that retreading isn't going to be much better.


The new mil bfg Baja s are nice, but you already have your 15s. Basically it's hard to find what your looking for and as to e goes on it's gonna keep getting harder as everyone is going to bigger wheels, and for good reasons
 
NorCal_Chris said:
Its not jusyt the tread on the mil tires that is less desireable, it's the crappy sidewalls. So that retreading isn't going to be much better.


The new mil bfg Baja s are nice, but you already have your 15s. Basically it's hard to find what your looking for and as to e goes on it's gonna keep getting harder as everyone is going to bigger wheels, and for good reasons
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i might bite the bullet and have kurt remake my rings for a 16.5 wheel. And then sell mine for what i can get. But they cost me about 500 total and ive had them less than a month.
 
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