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Feb 28, 2016 18:23:27 GMT
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I took the 31x10.5x15 General mud tyres off my truck (a Nissan D22 with Shogun/Pajero rims) as although they looked ace, they were awful on the road, noisy, slidey and very unstable. After lots and lots of research I went for General Grabber AT2 all terrains, they are fantastic on the road (including 90mph motorway blasts) and brilliant offroad, obviously they aren't going to match up to MTs on the gloopy stuff, but on the green lanes of Mid-Wales they were unstoppable. (Two Disco 2's got stuck whereas I didn't!)
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Thanks for the effort of replying.
After inpection on the MT's the sidewall was heavily worn. No idea how they got that worn but useless for me.
I have however found some matching front BFG ATs which may fit the bill!
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Slight update here. I went to my first off road pay'N'play event today. Was a little apprehensive being surrounded by discos and defenders on 35"s and some very capable vehicles. Paid my membership, drove into the site and got stuck in less than a minute. A nice dude tugged me out, I then lasted perhaps 5 minutes and got stuck again, this time another chap in a truck pulled me out and we had a chat, he pointed out my tyres were just not man enough! Have a photo of my truck after about being pulled out... Twice. I think I'm going to need some more manly tyres, that combined with a mild lift, 3" suspension 3" body I'm thinking as my diff and sumo guard kept jotting the ground, beached myself once as well. Otherwise I'm quite impressed with the truck and the A/T tyres. Surprised me quite a bit.
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I eventually got a set of General Grabbers. As i said before about my sidewall splitting .... On tyre nigh on fell to bits when being taken off the rim,as the sidewall just collapased..... That was not nice to see ......
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Look far more adequate than my BF A/T
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There's a few various types of bfg tread.
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The 110 had bfg a/t's and the disco had Insa Turbo's ( Dakars i think ,the next one down from Special trak's) Both good in their own way. All depends on what you use the vehicle for.
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Yes I think they've revised the BFG treads over the years haven't they? Mine appear to be an older model but not incredibly old.
My main use for the truck is parts collecting, work commute but I do intend on visiting the pay and play days monthly and hopefully some lanes thrown in for good measure. Think I'll have to have a look through some potential suitors, the Insa Turbo Specials were mentioned today, a chap with the same truck also said they were super bearable on the road and on long drives. It was also suggested possibly buying a 2nd set of wheels for pay and play days and swapping them.
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Yes,swapping wheels is ideal for play and pay sites,and its what i'd do if had the cash.
I used to run Bfg Trac Edge tyres before they stopped making them,they were good.
The only issue with good 'off road' tyres is that you can go further and get stuck deeper!
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Yeah, exactly what a guy said to me today with 35s on a disco. He said instead of getting stuck where loads of guys can pull you out, you find somewhere else to get stuck and the only chap that can pull you out is the farmer with his tractor.
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What tyre pressure were you running when you got stuck? If you were running highway pressure, then try airing down, it should give you the extra grip you need. There is driving skill involved in mud driving as well, it's not all about the tyre.
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Yes,swapping wheels is ideal for play and pay sites,and its what i'd do if had the cash. I used to run Bfg Trac Edge tyres before they stopped making them,they were good. The only issue with good 'off road' tyres is that you can go further and get stuck deeper! Two sets of wheels is definitely the way to go. Many of the country boys around here run farm service lug tyres all round on their Hiluxes and old Landrovers. It is not uncommon to see these in the town when the snow comes and their usual cars can't get out.
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Apr 10, 2016 11:10:30 GMT
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Another positive to running two sets of wheels is I can buy any tyres and then match the wheels to suit the tyre. I seem to be limiting my choices by having a set of 15" wheels, if I had 16" the choice would be more plentiful.
Can anyone tell me how they're converting the converting the tyres sizes from metric to imperial? Is it just a case of multiplying the sidewalk height by 2, converting to inches and then adding the diameter of the wheel?
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Apr 10, 2016 13:37:05 GMT
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Use www.willtheyfit.com/If memory serves me correctly, the site was set up by an RR member? There's also plenty of other tyre calculators out there on the internet. Edit: Sorry, that one actually doesn't have imperial sizes! Nevertheless, it will give you the diameter of your metric tyre, which is then easily converted to inches.
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I used to run Bfg Trac Edge tyres before they stopped making them,they were good. Insa Turbo now do a Trac Edge pattern tyre, Special Trac I think they call em, reasonable range of sizes, usual cheap prices...
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