Anybody run them on a tow rig? I can pick up a set cheap, in the size i want and am considering it, especially with how terrible my current Bridgestone street tires are in the snow. I have a set of MTR's laying arround i could run, but i would rather sell them off and buy something that has a bit more wet weather friendly tread, like the trXus MT's. So, anybody run them? How is the tread life on a 7K pound truck?
Be careful that they aren't the special racing tread compound rock crawling models. I would hate to see how fast those wore down on a 7000 pound truck...:doah:
I was told the same thing from a guy at 4Wheel Parts Wholesalers here in CA. I got there ad in the mail and the price was good so I called them and he asked what truck I had and he said they would wear really fast on a truck that heavy. I was looking at the load range E's also. He said on a midsize truck they seem to be okay but he put a set on few diesel Dodges and he said they are back in about 15K miles for new tires.
yeah i work at 4 wheel parts here in fort worth and we have a customer that is working on his 5th set of trxus mt's in 1.5 years. so for my opinion i wouldnt get them, but my opinion is worth what you paid for it. ryan
I ended up passing on the deal. The tires on the truck are terrible in snow, but are brand new and should be nice when towing, so i decided to spend the money elsewhere and bought myself some parts for my trail rig.
66Cummins is runnin' 315's on his 96 SWR 5spd Dodge and towing pretty heavy. Lets see if he has any thing to say.
the New Blizzak or so I belive I was reading about in four wheeler seems to have a pretty good review in the snow and ice,but not a summer tire. I know the Dumbloops in the 17's suck on the yotas I have got to find a new set of tires to go on my wifes tundra they dont seem to be lasting over 30k of easy driving I figure if I drove it all the time it would be about 15k. Any suggestions in an M/S type?
I Run BFG ATs on both my trail rig and my tow rig and I LOVE them. They have great snow traction, last quite a while, are quiet, and rock in the dirt. My Fiancee has Cooper Discoverer M/Ss on her Mitsu Lancer and they rock in the snow and Ice. However they are not really an all year tire. I think that they would wear out Real fast during summer.
I've been pretty impressed with the Dayton Timberlines I'm running now. They handle much better than the Swampers on wet road and just as good in really wet gumbo mud. These tires are not wearing anything like any of the Swampers do. We couldn't get the GY MTR's to wear worth a flip on these duallies at all. My honest opinion, the Truxxus won't last till the fire gets hot.
I'm running BFG Rugged Trail T/A's so far so good I havent really had any loads on them so I dont know how well they will do. I have had them on rainy,muddy and icy roads and they have done well.
Kinda' an old post, but....... I've been running the 265/75R16 D-load Trxus MT's on my 2500HD CC for about 18,000 miles now. I chose them because they have a decent price to begin with and I found a good sale on them also, so I gave them a shot. - Very hard to balance. I balance them myself at work and they basically required more weight than there was room for on the rim lip. Tried balancing them twice about 6,000 miles apart and the same issue both times. Finally added about 4 oz. of BB's to each tire and it really help. At least one tire was rather out-of-round and has always had a thumpa-thumpa-thumpa to it even after the BB's. - Very loud. Granted, the stock tires were very quiet street treads but I did run BFG Muds and Goodyear MT/R's for years when the K5 was a daily driver, and the K5 also currently has 38" TSL's, so not like I'm not used to running mud tires. - Definitely a difference in handling versus the stock tires. A little more sway than what I expected but I have gotten use to it. I've pulled my 8,500 lb. trailer/K5 combo several hundred miles at a time with no issues. - Traction in just about every condition is better. The Trxus do really good in snow, even the packed snow and ice in which other mud tires I've driven were pretty bad in. When playing with my tow rig and K5 both in 2wd with a couple inches of snow on the road, the tow rig could run circles around the grooved and siped 38" TSL's on the K5 w/ a rear locker. - Tire wear......well, I guess part of the reason the Trxus hook up good on hard pack stuff is that the tread compound is soft. You could literally see the tread peeling off, sort of like those real sticky drag or circle track tires. Wear was very noticable even after a few thousand miles, though the wear seems to slow down the more they wear. I've rotated the tires several times in the last 18k and the two currently on the back have almost completely worn past the sipes in the tread blocks. These two also started wearing really funny in the front before I installed the BB's and put them on the back, so I think part of that is due to the imbalance/out-of-round issue. They will definitely need replaced by the time 20k rolls around. The two currently on the front look much better and haven't been wearing funny, but they were the two "best" in regards to balance to begin with and seem to run pretty true after the BB's were installed. In any case they might last to 25k.
