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Yes, your favorite clueless wonder just figured out what all of you probably already knew about tires: the number of tread lugs is the same even on some different sizes.



What this means is that a 285 AT tire is more aggressive than a 245 AT tire. I counted the lugs on both a 245 and a 285 BFG At, and BOTH were 40 lug treads (along the sidewall anyway).



You could also tell that the lugs were farther apart on the larger tire by sticking your fingers into the tread. It's a tighter fit on the smaller tires.



Does anyone know if this is true across ALL tire sizes? Would a 315 have the same number of lugs as a 245? Is there a point where the lugs change, like 40 lugs on a 245 and bigger, and maybe 39 on 245 and smaller?



I was looking at saw blades at Lowe's and this came to me. A 60 tooth 12" blade is much more aggressive than a 60 tooth blade on a 7 1/4" circular saw.



If this is the case, then I don't need to run MTRs or BFG MTkm's. I can just go to the 315 size in an AT tire.....



Justin
 
As a general rule with pickup size tires this is the case. THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS! You'll also find larger tires to have larger lugs thereby not changing the diffrence between them that much.

-Scott
 
Just trying to get my tire selection finalized. I am almost to the point where I have enough balls to run a 315 with no lift on stock wheels. The BFGs and the Nittos are the finalists.



jlh
 
Nitto's Rock!!!

Had Yokohama 315's with no lift, looked awesome, slight rubbing, but only lasted 30k.



got 305 70 nittos (load range e) with over that on them now, will probably make 50k easy.
 
My old room mate has a 2k2 Crew Cab Duramax that he installed a set of Nitto's on some aftermarket wheels. He tows with his quit a lot (4-horse gooseneck with living quarters) and he's had pretty good mileage out of them. Seem to be good in dry and wet weather, pretty grippy offroad, and I think he's got somewhere around 30k on them. Seem to be a good tire form what I remember.



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