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Looking for a new set of mud terrains

I'd like to get ideas on who makes the hardest wearing, hardest compound mud terrains.

I've owned both maxxis and procomps

Was thinking BFG's or Mickey T's in 33's

any thoughts?

Mickey uses a soft compound so will wear fast. Cooper make a hard compound so will wear slowly but the offset is cutting... Unsure of BFG but the KM2 reports of good wearing.

South wrote:Mickey uses a soft compound so will wear fast. Cooper make a hard compound so will wear slowly but the offset is cutting... Unsure of BFG but the KM2 reports of good wearing.

BFG are soft too.. MTR's are soft... STT's are soft.. Most MT's are soft as each other by nature.

if your looking for long wearing, I think a 351 will delete any comparo with 99% of factory engines out there.
By the cheapest and just replace as needed.

Just have a seperate road set. Then you can run as soft a tyre you like off road.

A 2nd set of stock rims and the cheapest road Tyres will pay themselves off in a year.

South wrote:Mickey uses a soft compound so will wear fast..

Correct but as with any rubber when weathered it goes harder, my old 35" claws were left in the weather for over 12months before i bought them, gave them a floggin on and off road they wore next to nothing over the 20,000 i owned them for and didnt chip bugger all off road whilst retaining the bit of stickiness.
If you can afford it, buy a set and leave them outside for a year, it worked well.

Every hard wearing tyre I have run means very poor onroad performance and chips easily offroad.

My Mudzillas are were ok ,had a fair bit of road use ,Im happy with them

SIM79 wrote:Every hard wearing tyre I have run means very poor onroad performance and chips easily offroad.

Yep, That's the way it will be.. Soft equals traction plus wear. Hard equals low traction and low wear.

Maxxis Creepy Crawler - like plastic (but hopeless in mud)

Slightly less aggressive tyre, but the Cooper S/Ts have a harder compound than the STTs, and wear much better on bitumen.

The downside is the cut & chip factor.

My simex extreme trekkers are pretty hard compound and don't seem to chip all that bad.

Love the KM2's I bought with Kevin Rudd's donation.
Being quite a new tyre, they appeared to wear very badly at first as they shrank and compressed down with use, but are lasting very well now considering that the amount I use them on road I really ought to be running two sets of tyres/wheels.

the hardest wearing i found years ago with the help of density testing was the Kuhmo 831/832 MT
i was able to get just oover 160K out of a set of 35/12/15 on a modded fj40 ...tyres where treated like stolen and stood up realy well

i found the pro-comp x-terrains to wear really well, trying out a set of wranglers atm, but havnt had em long enought yet

My pro comp x-terrains will be lucky to see 25,000 ks. I drive it hard but I still thought i would get alot more wear than that. It's a shame cause I really like them, but not if they are going to wear that quick!