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andythoma
| | Posted on Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 02:19 pm: | 
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I have decided I need to get something that will work better in the snow and mud than my Wrangler AP's. I have read every tire question in the archives and still need some help. I have a 95 d1 with 245/70/16's on with a oem lift, arb w/o winch and a roof rack. I want a tire that is taller to aid in clearence for the diffs. I really want go with a 235/85/16 but worry about how it will effect me. I have an auto transmittion and I drive the truck as a daily driver. Most of my driving is highway miles for my work commute and to get to wheeling areas. I want to know, how bad would 235/85's effect my mileage? I know its a rover you shouldn't care. How would regearing to 4:1-1's effect my mileage? I am sold on regearing, until I can afford a commuter car, I don't want to add lockers. I play alot in the snow and want an agressive AT or a MT type of tire. I make 16mpg now, if it where to get worse with gears and tires, I don't know if I could justify bigger tires, I may just end up with 245/75's. Loss of power doesn't really bother me that much as lossing miles covered per tank of gas.
Thanks for any help.
Andy |
Carter Simcoe (Carter)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 02:22 pm: |
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I get 13-14 mpg on my stockers and 11-12 when I'm running my 235/85 BFG M/Ts |
Carter Simcoe (Carter)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 02:25 pm: |
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Oh, I am by no means an expert on snow but aren't tires that work well in mud and well in snow generally two entirely different animals?? |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 02:31 pm: |
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Snow? "Aggressive AT" in mud? Highway miles?
Dunlop Radial Rover R/T.
235/85R16, or 245/75R16.
-L |
andythoma
| | Posted on Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 02:41 pm: |
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True snow tires are a different beast. I was thinking about those Dunlop rover radial r/t's. I realize what I really need is snow tires, muddin tires and street tires. But swapping wheels everytime I want to do something different is not my idea of fun. I am probably really looking at something like those dunlops, something that does everything fine. I want those dream tires that you push a button on the dash that transforms them from mud tires to street tires, plus they wash the truck and change the oil.
Carter-
Do you have stock gears?
Andy |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 02:46 pm: |
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I went w/ the 245/75 because I didn't have a lift.... the 235/85 would be better with a small 2" lift. Stock gears. Not really noticable, it was still slower than a Roo.... 
(Did you mean "oem lift" meaning stock, or did you mean "OME lift"? If you have a 2" lift, go 235/85...)
An alternative is BFG's Commerical T/A-traction tire.... don't mistakenly get the BFG Commercial T/A tire that isn't the -traction version.
IMHO, FWIW......
-L |
James F. Thompson Jaime (Blueboy)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 02:49 pm: |
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naw; other than siping, rubber compound, tread pattern, stud capability, and other shit they're the same. lol.
yes, usually different criteria apply so a "true" mud tire doesn't work as well in snow as a snow biased tire or a "M&S" rated tire.
still, they work better than the 2wd pickups that seemed to fall from the sky when it snowed here over X-mas. talk about a fubar situation.
Jaime |
Carter Simcoe (Carter)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 03:09 pm: |
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yeah, I'm running stock gears Andy. |
athoma
| | Posted on Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 03:29 pm: |
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Whoops, OME lift.
We had lots of snow on the 31st. I was so proud of the discovery, I was going up one of the canyons to ski and pasted a bunch of suv's and 4 wheel pu's not making up through about 4"s of snow. Good thing they never saw me sliding around.
Andy |
Robert Sublett (Rubisco98)
| | Posted on Thursday, January 02, 2003 - 07:28 pm: |
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I've got a '96 with OME lift and 235/85/16 MT's and get an avg. of 14.5 on the interstate, and around 12 city driving. My wife's stock D2 pretty much has been averaging 15 mpg period(short hgwy trips, lots of city driving), so I wouldn't worry about mpg unless you do ALOT of highway miles w/o getting paid for it. I get paid to commute so that sure makes it easier on me. Later.. RS |
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