My dad called me up wondering if I wanted a brand new set of studded tires for my truck, he has a set with about 2000kms on them that he was gonna put on his old chevy plow truck. Thing is, they are 225/75 16s, and I have 285 mud kings on my truck atm, about 50% tread. He wants my mud kings for the plow truck, as he's gonna have chains and the truck never sees the road. These mud kings are surprisingly good in the snow, they've made er through a few big Canadian snowstorms so far and I'm impressed with them, for what I expected.

I absolutely hate the thoughts of goin down to a 225, but they are really nice new tires, still somewhat aggressive. What do you guys think about it? brand new studded 225s, or half worn 285s? I think it would look too funny with the small ones, my wifes little Blazer has 235s and they still look small even on that thing.

 

i had mud kings and loved them, great in snow, mud, and sand. id hang on to those imo

 

I'd keep them as well.

 

keep the mud kings.....those other tires are WAY to small.....your truck would look like it has training wheeels on it with those. the front drifferential will prob drag on the ground hahah not really

 

If the Mud Kings work good for you in the snow, I'd keep them.

When My dad bought the truck, we had brand new 285 Sport King A/Ts in the back and 3/4 worn Liberator A/Ts in the front. The Sport Kings were horrible, we could never get them to stop shaking. Damn things werent even round!

You think the 235s on your wife's Blazer look small, try the 205s that are on my S-10! I'm upgrading to the 235 size soon!

 

with the 225/75/16s its gonna look like your driving with four spare tires
If they were any bigger I would say go with the newer tires but you wont be happy with them that small

 

ya when he first told me about them, he said they were 245s, which is what was on it before the 285s, and I was all set to get em. Then when I went to look at them I noticed they are 225s.

I was kinda thinkin about keepin what I got, they work pretty good for what they are treadwise, although they wouldn't balance very good and shake the *** end pretty good over about 100km/h. I need to get some new ones in the spring...

Thanks for the opinions guys! very helpful

 

i would keep the 285's

 

ya the 225's would look like you got pizza cutters on your truck

 

there's 225's on mine