Best Offroad tires
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In offroading, one of the most important things is the tire you drive on. I'm just curious what you guys are running on your trucks, what kind of terrain you are usually involved with, and what you think is the best tire on the market for the type of offroading you do.
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i have a set of firestone wilderness AT's 33-12.5 15 and they suck off road! on road the are ok but no good on any terrain. next i think i might be getting a set of conti mud trac in 35-12.50
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i run 35-14.50 tsl boggers on my bronco, i play in black land mud, creek bottoms with lots of deep silt built up. they take me where i want to go, but will hum ya out of the thing on road, i've got 33-12.50 wideclimer a/t's on my 78 f150 they aren't the best offroad, unless i'm on ground that that drops out from under me with **** tires. the boggers make all tires seem like a/t's to me
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> firestone wilderness AT's
I have to agree, these tires are useless off-road in any size and even worse in snow and ice. Even on slightly wet pavement my Ranger would break loose the rear end if I shifted too fast from 1st to 2nd. Worse, it is really easy to slice the sidewalls on these tires off-road. They are a street tire all the way and not even good at that.
I do not have real off-road tires on my truck right now (running only 31s AT type Wild Country XTX). They have been okay on contruction sites and driving in front loader tracks, though taking it off-road in GA with leaves, moss, and sticky clay they really loaded up to be almost useless. They do seem to take stick and sidewall impacts pretty well.
Off road for a bias tire I think Hawgs are good and REAL radial snow tires are good in just about anything. If you have the money and are going big I do not see how you can go wrong with a Swamper tire. I have not owned a Bogger or TSL myself, though I have seen people running them even on 14 inch rim.
I have to agree, these tires are useless off-road in any size and even worse in snow and ice. Even on slightly wet pavement my Ranger would break loose the rear end if I shifted too fast from 1st to 2nd. Worse, it is really easy to slice the sidewalls on these tires off-road. They are a street tire all the way and not even good at that.
I do not have real off-road tires on my truck right now (running only 31s AT type Wild Country XTX). They have been okay on contruction sites and driving in front loader tracks, though taking it off-road in GA with leaves, moss, and sticky clay they really loaded up to be almost useless. They do seem to take stick and sidewall impacts pretty well.
Off road for a bias tire I think Hawgs are good and REAL radial snow tires are good in just about anything. If you have the money and are going big I do not see how you can go wrong with a Swamper tire. I have not owned a Bogger or TSL myself, though I have seen people running them even on 14 inch rim.
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I run the standard TSL swampers. They are great off-road. I use the rig for trailriding in which the ground is made up of mostly clay and rocks. Loud on the road though. I wear ear plugs when driving over an hour to the local national forest. The top is off, and windows down so it is loud anyway from the wind noise at 70mph.
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IMO. I have run swampers and I have run Hawgs...I'll never buy swampers again.
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anyone have a pic of these hawgs? i haven't heard much on them, how much would they run for a 35-12.5 15? do they wear nicely? what about noise?
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The Denman tire website doesn't list that size as an option on the Ground Hawg or Ground Hawg 2 radial. http://denmantires.com/ground_hawg_bias_truck_tires.htm
The website above is a picture of the tire though. According to what i can find they will run about 200 apiece. But that does depend on whether you get the Ground Hawg or GH2.
The website above is a picture of the tire though. According to what i can find they will run about 200 apiece. But that does depend on whether you get the Ground Hawg or GH2.
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i'm running swamper radials, (36x14.50) they have about 70% tread and i mostly wheel sand they do great, but you have to watch it when you launch or you dig an fricking well for yourself, and of course they kick butt in mud....duh
they wear fairly well, my truck is horribly out of alignment and needs new rear axle bearings, so the back aren't round anymore but the fronts are holding up well
they wear fairly well, my truck is horribly out of alignment and needs new rear axle bearings, so the back aren't round anymore but the fronts are holding up well
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Not bagging the hawgs, cuz they wear like iron on the road whereas the Swampers have a pretty short life span, but 9 out of 10 guys who run them in nasty mud say they suck. Every so often you have somebody who loves them though. I think they are a good tire, just that swamper are better. Boggers, of course, have no competition for off-road supremecy, unless we are talking about rock crawling.
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I have to beg to differ proeliator. In the last bog comp. I was in the Hawgs had mud supremecy, the mud had the consistancy of wet clay and stuck like liquid nails. In the 38" tire class first and second places went to the Hawgs. The boggers were packing up and not cleaning well at all. Where as the Hawgs stayed nice and clean....I have the troph to prove that. But I am not trying to say that Boggers are junk. If I had not tried a set of Hawgs first I would probably be running Boggers. All in all though I think it boils down to user preferance, plus if you took a count I think you would find that more people run boggers just do to the fact that they have the SuperSwamper name attached to them, and look totally bada$$. But seems lately in the past couple years I have been seeing more and more people running Hawgs. But then again as I said, it boils down to user preferance.
If I may ask a question of you proeliator, how bad of a job was it plumbing your radiator to the rear? I've been considering doing this myself.
If I may ask a question of you proeliator, how bad of a job was it plumbing your radiator to the rear? I've been considering doing this myself.
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I have a set of Swamper SSR 35x14.50 16.5. I mounted these tires on a truck I had whenever I headed up to the snow and have done some trails with mud. They work great and they are radials. Noise for such a tire was minimal for me. Handling is great on dry pavement. Wet pavement was okay. I think most aggressive tread tires don't do too well on wet asphalt. It was cheaper for me to run regular truck tires on the street and swap to the Swampers when needed (Less wear on steering, suspension and just a hair bit better on fuel). But now that I bought my 71 F250, they won't fit!