mud tires

[91rangerxlt]

Got two brand of tires I'm looking at gitteng. Wilk either be 285s or 265s and wikk go on a 89 f150. The first is toyo open country mud terrain. I can get em for 200 a piece. Look alright but lugs look a little close to clean out good. The second tire abd tge one I'm leaning on is the hercules trail digger mud terrain. Tire look great and loika like it wilk clean out real good. I can get em for 180 a piece. Anyone had any experience with em? I drivevalotta hiway, but also work on a rig so will see a lot if mud/ sand.

 

[RavoHimself]

i have heard great things about the toyo's. i would pick those especially if you plan on doing highway

 

[Original_Ranger84]

I used to work for a tire shop that sells toyo's and I can honestly say I would NEVER put those tires on anything I owned ever. They work good for looking good good but I had people come up to me and complain about how dissapointed they were in the tires. A few people live on dirt/gravel roads and one guy got about 5000 out of out of them before the tread was trashed and my friend went though 3 sets in one summer at about 10K per pair and he was nice to them.

If you are doing mostly Highway I would get a good A/T not an M/T, I swapped my M/t's off while I mess with my t bars and my god i never knew how loud and rough the M/T's were until I tried the A/T's. There is alot less driver fatigue on long trips. A/T's wont be really good in deep mud but they will be fine in some mud and better on the sand.

 

[badmts]

I use the FIRESTONE DESTINATION M/T ,they are AWESOME ! drop them down to 8-10 psi off road and you will leave some mighty heroic tracks. I have to drive 26 miles minimum one way to wheel and the DESTINATIONS are fine at hiway speeds too. FIRESTONE will NOT be undersold on tires ,call 'em make 'em prove it!

 

[91rangerxlt]

I use the FIRESTONE DESTINATION M/T ,they are AWESOME ! drop them down to 8-10 psi off road and you will leave some mighty heroic tracks. I have to drive 26 miles minimum one way to wheel and the DESTINATIONS are fine at hiway speeds too. FIRESTONE will NOT be undersold on tires ,call 'em make 'em prove it!

That's wat was on tge truck. These trail diggers look way meaner I thing. Has to be a mud tire. I hate all terrains. Now to figure if I want 285s or 265s

 

[Original_Ranger84]

I love the look of a set of 285's on the 98+ F150's butn I'm not sure about the older ones. I would say the 265's just to be safe.

Or figure out which tire you want and have the tire shop test fit each tire size and see how you like each one

 

[91rangerxlt]

I love the look of a set of 285's on the 98+ F150's butn I'm not sure about the older ones. I would say the 265's just to be safe.

Or figure out which tire you want and have the tire shop test fit each tire size and see how you like each one

Mines a 1999. I think ima go with the 285. I've got 3.55 gears, it seems to do fine in the thick riversand and 285s are not a whole lot bigger.

 

[Original_Ranger84]

Oh i thought it was an 89... Yeah if its leveled get the 285's and bask in how sweet your rig looks.

 

[91rangerxlt]

Oh i thought it was an 89... Yeah if its leveled get the 285's and bask in how sweet your rig looks.

Whoops I did put 89 by accident lol, sorry I'm on my fone and fingers are to fat. A buddy is selling me 4 dunlop 33s and some chevy six lug rims, gonna sell the rims and keep the torea

 

[Original_Ranger84]

Are the 33x15's? I know 15" rims dont fit the newer fseries trucks.

 

[06RangerXLT]

trail diggers wear fast on road. check out kl71's

 

[91rangerxlt]

Are the 33x15's? I know 15" rims dont fit the newer fseries trucks.

Nope 16"s ans yea ford used a retarted bolt pattern from late 90s to mid 2000s

 

[maclgallant]

trail diggers wear fast on road. check out kl71's

i'll second that

i Have a set of khumo road venture kl71 20,000 km on them very little wear
really quiete on road comfortable at highway speeds and have not been stuck yet really really good traction


only cons terrible in winter Unless were talking about deep snow/slush where they float reallly well