What are the best mud terrain tires for street use?

 

This definitely an opinion based question and answer. I am currently running Nitto Trail Grapplers and LOVE them. Not as noisy as conventional mudders, ride smooth and clean well. I just took a road trip to Idaho and back which is 14 hours each way and they did very well. Went shooting with my brother at a place where you had to have 4wd just to get to. Not only did they do awesome in the Idaho mud but I had to pull his Jeep Rubicon out twice because he was running AT's and weren't cleaning well. I have about 21,000 miles on mine and they still have a little over half of their tread left, just pay attention to the load range on the tire. Mine are a load range E and are a little stiffer than the load range D which if you have a 1500 should be just right for you.

 

We have the same truck

 

I like the trail grapplers. Do you know much about bfg km2's

 

I've got 285/70/17s Fierce M/Ts D range(3195) and couldn't be happier. They should hit the 45k mark before I get a new set. Some road noise but well worth it. And remember....rotate, rotate, rotate.

 

We do not have the same truck, the 1500 Mega Cabs are on a 2500 chassis. I have a solid front axle and alot more weight, it's basically a 2500 with 1500 badging. In my opinion you can't really go wrong with BFG's either, I have run them for years, but never had the KM2's.

 

Plus the Trail Grapplers are still a decent price whereas the KM2's are more expensive.

 

Yep, you'll get 50 different opinions on this one.

But I'll say this - cheap mud tires as a rule DO NOT hold up long to road use. REAL AGGRESSIVE mud tires, no matter who makes them won't hold up long either.

About the longest lasting mud tires you are going to find (also about the most expensive) are the Mickey Thompson MTZs and the Dick Cepek Mud Country tires. My little brother went through two sets of Maxxis Buckshots real quick - like didn't get to 20k miles on either set. He's got Mickey MTZs now and they are at 38k and still have plenty of tread left on them. Yeah, they cost more BUT NOT TWICE AS MUCH but tend to last twice as long.

Got a real good buddy with Mickey ATZs (All Terrain) who is over 80k on them, if they were mine I'd be changing them about now, but he's determined to get 100k out of them. Hell even 80k is unheard of longevity in an aggressive all-terrain tire.

These are my Dick Cepek FCIIs ( a mud-terrain/all-terrain hybrid) at 34k miles - maybe 10% wear on them:



like most things, you get what you pay for...

 

The secret to mud tires is to rotate them every time you change your oil, keep the pressure steady and keep good alignment. My girlfriend is running 38.5" MTZ's and they are doing pretty well, she takes really good care of them, but I guess at over $400 per tire its good incentive to watch over them.

 

Yep, my Cepeks get rotated every 6k when I change my oil. I would have mentioned the Trail Grapplers too, another of my favorite tires, but they just haven't been out long enough for there to be good wear/mileage data on them yet...