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Jay Hobbs (Jayxd)
| | Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2002 - 08:55 pm: | 
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Looking to get tires for the XD soon and need some experienced advice. Looking at most likely the BFG ATs or MTs. Disco will be a daily driver, very little interstate driving (usually only to/from trails but may tow a pop-up camper in the future. Will be equipped with ARB lockers F/R next week and winch within a month or so. Usually run level 2-3 trails but will likely see up to level 4 trails with mods. Wheel probable twice a month. Where I wheel there are a lot of rocks, many wet, stream/river crossings, ledges, slabs. Mud is always a possibility but not the major obstacle. Usually not very deep but long muddy tracks. Any thoughts? |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2002 - 09:52 pm: |
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Guess what I'm gonna suggest.... lol....
-L |
Michael Noe (Noee)
| | Posted on Friday, March 08, 2002 - 06:24 am: |
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hehe. Well, I would have to concur unless you see a lot of mud. I've been in some nasty mud recently and it's not the R/T strong point. |
Jay Hobbs (Jayxd)
| | Posted on Friday, March 08, 2002 - 10:29 am: |
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Leslie,
Any comments on how the R/Ts do on wet rocks and slick hardpacked surfaces? I looked at that tire for my RR but opted for the Courser Traction RLT instead. It was a good tire both on and off road.
Jay |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Friday, March 08, 2002 - 11:15 pm: |
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Michael,
The R/T isn't a mud tire, so if you were in really nasty stuff, then I wouldn't be surprised. But, I've seen mud tires not do so hot in mud, too...
Hmmm..... I've been over dry rocks, and was really tickled w/ how they did, but I haven't been over any wet rocks. I can pitch in 2-cents here, and say that from experience w/ other tires on other vehicles, it's not so much wet "rocks" as what kind of wet "rocks".... wet sandstones, it doesn't matter, you just drive. A wet dolostone, and it can be downright nasty. Granite, well... the granits I've driven on were weathered Carolina granites, which would be different than say, Yosemite granites...
At MAR, there was a pretty noticable hill-climb, that had been travelled over and over and over, and by the end of the weekend it had become pretty packed and slick, and they were superb on it. However, I've seen some slick-packed banks before that I don't care what kind of tires you had on there, you weren't gonna get up it, unless you switch to tracks.
Another point.... I've not got on-board air, and usually the places where I'm on a trail, there isn't a place nearby to air up when I come off of it, so I don't air down the way the fellas runnin' around in Moab do. I would think that if you ever did encounter any problems, that if you aired them down that you would really see an improvement: maybe I'm not pushing hard enough, but I've not run into a situation yet where I had to myself....
Maybe, maybe you could see if someone somewhere in your vicinity has R/Ts on theirs, and you can see how they do first-hand, and decide for yourself. Just a thought....
-L |
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