I picked up some really really cheap 2009 OEM Laramie rims that have salt corrosion and the chrome plastic is starting to peel. I'm going to use them for winter rims only.

I'm looking for a winter tire (Oct to March). This tire also cannot pack itself full of mud when I drive in CRP or cut corn fields. I don't want a mudbog tire nor am I interested in lifting the truck. Also, I am not impressed with the limited supply of tires that are available in the standard tire size 275/60/20 (630 rotations per mile)

Has anyone had any sucess with BFG All-Terrain T/A KO tires? Closest size is a 285/65/20 that rotates 599 times a mile. How much do you think these tires would affect my speedometer? Has anyone had these tires previously and can give me any advice? Are they a pile of suck, or are they thumbs up? What would be your recommendation?

 

We have had good luck with both toyo open country tires as well as goodyear wrangler silent armor tires. Both are great in the snow and get us around our farms easily. Plus they both cleanout well and are quiet going down the road.

 

Had the bf's TKO for year's and liked it but recently put a set of Goodyear duratrac and so far, it's been the best mud/snow/hwy tires I've ever own. I have the Goodyear silent armor on my working truck, not bad but still prefer the Duratrac by far.

 

Tires will throw off your speedo by 5%.
So with these tires, if your speedo is at 100 kph, you're really going to be at 105 kph.

 

destanition a/ts are a great over the road mud and snow tire. i live in the adk park in upstate new york and thats what i ran for years. not i have the mud tires for summer (tsl super stampers) and blizzaks snow tires for the winter

 

Nitto mud grapplers are great in the snow and mud!!!!!!I think they are better than the procomp x'terrains that I have now.Although,the mud grapplers have a bit of a roar,when traveling at highway speeds,but I like it....

 

The problem you run into is that traditionally the features that make a good snow tire are about the opposite of the features that make a good mud tire.

In a snow tire, you want as much contact patch as possible with narrow voids and lots of good siping. The large contact patch (smaller almost continuous blocks) distribute the weight over a greater area, keeping you up in the snow. Think about a snow mobile and why they travel through snow so well. One large, continuous tread that is in constant contact with the snow. The siping is indispensable when traveling on ice, as they expand and contract and act as little grips both ice and wet surfaces.

In a mud tire, you want large individual blocks with very large voids to kinda "claw" it's way thru the mud. Instead of a large contact patch, you want the weight of the vehicle concentrated over each individual block as it makes contact to dig into the mud and pull you through it.

Your best bet is to find a hybrid tire, one that has the center characteristic of an All-Terrain tire, smaller blocks with siping but have inner/outer blocks that are more characteristic of a Mud-Terrain tire with larger blocks, bigger voids and some side biters.

Top performing hybrid tires are the Goodyear Duratrac, Dick Cepek FCII and the Super Swamper M16...

This is the Cepek FCII tread pattern, you'll notice the center of the tire looks like an A/T tire, while the inner/outer blocks look like an M/T tire. If you look at the Duratracs and M16s, although the patterns are different, the characteristics are similar...

 

Now, if they could just come out with one that is quiet, doesn't vibrate, and doesn't look like a HEAVY duty tire......

 

My Cepeks have no real vibration at all, except when turning at VERY low speed (especially in reverse) when those big side blocks want to bite hard.

But they are by no means quiet. Not Bogger, Claw or Mudd Grappler loud but a LOT louder than a run of the mill All-Terrain tire for sure...

But tire noise and a HD look is a personal preference thing, a lot of guys like the monster tire look and love it when you can hear them coming from 3 blocks away, LOL.

Now I can't hear my tires hum at all, the Cherry Bomb Extreme drowns it out, LMAO...