Off Roading POLL: best mud tire for 5" lift

[rivercat]

This poll is for all brands of mud pattern tires that are sized to work with the 5" lift keep in mind that most are odd sizes that are not availible in all popular tires

(personally I like the bridgstone dualler MT but! it is only availible in a 16 0r 16. 5 up to 285-75 and that in my IMHO is way too small for a truck with this lift)











Im running 36-14. 50 16 swamper radial tsl in 10 ply and love the look hate the weight/ride increasted stopping distance of them.

 

[rivercat]

no votes cum'on guys I can't be alone on this all the above tires are in the 350-420 range a hard choice to make with out opinions based on expirience







O well its lonely at the top :-laf

 

[Timbeaux38]

The BFG will probably give you the best on-road performance, but the TSL is the best looking IMO

 

[CyberRanger]

Personally, I like the 10 ply 305/85R16 (36") Gateway Buckshot Mudder. Much more aggressive tread than the BFG & more pavement friendly than the Swamper TSLs. Most of these tire listed are 6 ply. From personal experience from a blowout at 75mph w/ 36" tires, its not a good idea to run 6 ply tires on a 3/4t truck, even if you only 4 wheel.



Note: This is not the same tire as the Maxxis Buckshot Mudder.

 

[dougs455]

BFG's are junk. Kinda like fords.

People buy em cuz everyone else has em.

Nobody does any research anymore.

BFG "All Terrains" are the worst tire ever

for mud/snow traction proved in an independent test.

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I see guys with those tires and a 3" body lift and they think their truck is ready for the mud drags.





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You want the Super Swamper TSL/Bogger... .



35x10. 5-16LT should fit just fine.



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[0013]

my vote goes to the Toyo M/T. just my . 02

 

[Red_Rattler]

315/75 r 16 GoodYear Wrangler MT/R!!!!

 

[DWitcher]

Tried and True the TSL Super Swamper TSL Radial 36-12. 50-16 measures 35 on a 8" wide wheel and 33 3/4" on a 10" wide wheel and is E rated at 3640lbs per tire single. I've been down this "which is the best mud tire for our trucks" road many times and for what your asking this is one of the best FOR MUD. Now if you plan on towing in hot weather this is not the tire for you due to heat and wear. I have friends with tall (other brand trucks) that due just that. I've had BFG's in the mud and IMO they dont clean as good as a TSL

 

[DWitcher]

Hey rivercat how wide of a wheel are you running?

 

[rivercat]

10 " 16 eagle alloy 143 almost like the weld typhoon best looking wheel for the money does not clean and polish near as good as a weld or centerline but 500 for set 2years ago is not bad like to have some weld mountain crushers 20" with nitto terra grapler

 

[Dieselram]

if you want a PURE MUD tire don;t care about how it rides or how long it lasts then get the super swamper boggers. 35x13's if you want a tire that with actually last but still do well in the mud then get the super swamper trxus Mt's

 

[ARedetzke]

Swampers won't last long on a heavy truck, they're too soft. I've gotten good longevity out of my Goodyear MTRs, and they do well in mud too.

 

[NCovey]

From personal experience, I like the BFG M/Ts. They are a good all around tire. They aren't too noisy, and they wear good. I usually average between 40-45,000 miles on a set. Good highway manners, usually easily balanced. I also like the General Grabber M/Ts.

They have the same characyeristics as the BFGs, but with a cheaper price. -Nicholas

 

[rivercat]

I guess the bf mts are more popular than I thought and it just shows how few trucks actually play in the mud or leave hard roads much. - where can you really get on 37-12. 50s?



As far as a onroad mud terrain Im looking into the toyo open contry m/t seems like a simular tread as bf and hear nothing but good things good traction and very good wear/ hard compound



by the way I "think" that any goodyear tire has the softest quickest wearing tread compared to any other NAME brand tire.





My tsls are getting thin and im looking into going up to 20s or 18s weld cheyyen chrome finish and putting the toyos on them I HATE MY EAGLES (143) 16"/10" good looking for eagles but still IHATE EAGLES bad/cheap alloy prone to constant oxidation.

 

[JFitzgerald]

dougs455 - BFG's are not junk. Did you read the test in your link?? A/T's aren't even included in that test, and they liked the M/T's. I've had both their M/T's and the A/T's. The M/T is good in mud, and still has decent road manners. A/T's are not good in mud, but are great in snow and everyday road use. My brother and father have been running A/T's for years and get 70-80,000 miles per set on 1/2 ton 4WD pickups. I decided to try A/T's this time on my Dodge, and I'm happy with them. 30,000 miles so far, no problems and wearing well. I am interested in the Toyos though. Had I known more about them, I may have tried them last time.

rivercat - If it's all about mud, get Boggers or TSL's. If you need some mud ability and road manners, get BFG M/T's or something like them. My off road only Jeep has TSL SX's which are great for rocks, mud and general abuse, but I'd hate them on the road. The other good choice for you might be the Truxus MT.

I have had two sets of the Eagle 589's. One set was on a mud drag truck, and I had to keep after them with the polish or the clay would stain them. The set I had on my first gen did fine as long as I kept them clean. Since they have no coating, it's a give and take. You have to polish them, but you won't have corrosion going on under a chipped clear coat like I have on my factory Dodge alloys. Good luck with your choice.

 

[Cumminpwr11]

Running the Baja claw backwards of the directional pattern is great in mud, and rocks. but its horrible on the street, you need to flip them back around.

 

[JFitzgerald]

Yes, those Claws work better than I expected. A friend has a set on a 4Runner. We were wheeling in the mud during a pouring rain, and he climbed clay hills better than most of us with Swampers. It's one thing to go wheeling in mud - it's another thing to do it during a pouring rain. Very challenging.

 

[pwerwagn]

BOGGERS!!!! I've had em all. bfg's, MT/R's, boggers, TSL's (currently), goodyears old M/T, BFG A/T's, Grand Prix Radial RVT (most havent heard of those: similar to a gumbo mudder or buckshot), and BFG Krawlers.

The BFG A/Ts sucked. plain and simple. longevity sucked, performance sucked, price sucked (for what they were).

The BFG M/T's were decent all-around tires. I still have them. they are more of a true "all terrain" than the A/Ts are.

the MT/R's are superior to the BFG M/T, as far as Im concerned. They even seem to be lasting longer.

the BFG Krawlers seem to be good so far, but dont wear to well on the street (expected).

The TSL's are good tires, but the advantages of them are really none compared to the boggers. they are slightly cheaper (I run the 39. 5" TSL's), but actually dont drive as well on the street as the bogger. the boggers are louder to (I like the noise).

the boggers are far and above the best. I've only tried a set of claws for a short period of time (borrowed them), but the boggers worked better to me. One thing about the boggers is, you need ALOT of power to turn them. Especially in the sand. (I run 38. 5-15/16 boggers).



Hope that helps. I didnt vote because there wasnt a option of BOGGER!!!

--Jeff

 

[rivercat]

trexxus? spoken like someone that has never owned a set!!!



sorry had some trexxus mts before the swampers in 285/75 on the stock rims hated them with a passion the little wear/ break in pads on the center lugs kill the contact patch for the first few weeks and I SWEAR you have to drive half as fast or wreck, YES that bad feels like 4 tires with only 5 lbs in them on a jeep at high speed. and then on MY truck after the pads wore off it wasn't much better tryed airing them all the way to 80lbs and down all the way to 40lbs and they never felt good under the truck. BTW I wore the set (285/75s) half way down In like 10-12k and traded for the tsl radials I am running now at less than 30k and they are still wearing pretty flat and have at least 1/5 tread left till the wear bars and my truck now shows 54k on it and with the 36s it loses 8mph at 60 so it has a milage loss of some sort 8-15 % not sure how to figure that. Bottom line is that I am extreamly happy with my tsl's no comparison to the trexxus on a truck this heavy,(probly good on a 1/2 chevy or something like that almost like the funcountry kevlars)but I did not have a good expirence with them. I do love my tsl's and think that even now almost 1. 5 years old and almost wore out they still handle better than the m/ts ever did.



Had a simular bad expirience with goodyear mtrs but not there fault.



Got them in 315/75 6 ply I think at sams for $803 I think they had to order them and called when they had them in. So I go up there and have them mounted and they run ok for a while then start to get real choppy so I have them balenced and they ride even worse and always pull from one side or the other drove me nuts I tryed moving the rearend back and forth and moving the tow and caster with the little cams. So I look at them and they have like 20-36 ounces of stick on weights on each wheel so I take them to a diffrent store have diffrent tires put back one and bring the old ones back. And tell them that they must have too small of a balencer for the big 315s and that the installation was defective 30 some onces please! they beat around the bush for a while and finally give me all my money back. SO one moral of this story is even if you can mail order big tires cheap and somehow beat the state sales tax with the shipping then you still have to find a big enough balencer to mount and PROPERly balence the tires. RULE OF THUMB no new tire should exeed 6 ounces when being ballenced if it exeedes 3 ounces then it needs to be broken down and pad balenced on the inside.

 

[Morse]

I've run the BFG's, swampers, and buckshot mudders in a 35. . Swampers were great in the mud and looked good. . Road manners and wear was horrible. . BFG's were great. . Low noise, and great wear. . The mud tire that impressed me the most was the Buckshot Mudder. . I'm not saying it was any better than the BFG, though it was awesome for the money. . Large side lugs, fairly quiet ride, good wear, and the tires needed almost no weight to be perfectly balanced. . I picked mine up in a 315-75-16, and they were a little over 100 bucks each. .