glazier

Funny thing happened today. Went to go pick up my lift and price out some tires. The store owner was telling me to forget the tire options I was inquiring about. 315/70/17 duratrac, KO2 and Toyo Open country AT2. He told me to go with the MT Baja or I would be disappointed with my tire selection. He said the Baja are better than my other options for snow, which I find that hard to believe since they look like a mud tire, but, I could be wrong. He was really pushy trying to get me into those MT Baja. Are they really that good?

It's my daily driver, I live up here in Canada with lots of snow. Moderate trials. No rocks.

Monkeyfist

285/75/17 nitto grappler MT on stock rims w/1.5" spider traxs love em

espi

I do not have experience with any of those except for the Duratracs in both 285/70r17 and 315/70r17. They are pretty quiet on the highway have a nice ride and kick ass in the snow. I am amazed at how well a rear wheel drive does in the snow with these tires and once when that is not good enough you put it in 4WD it tracked awesome. They truly performed well on light snow, deep snow, slush, and rain.

Sahara Lee

Unless you are going to be flexing your suspension taking Jeep selfies posed on rocks, 33s are plenty tire.

I have Duratrac 35s on my Unlimited Sahara but the only reason I didn't go 33s is I wanted a little more fording height. (I'm in Florida so rock climbing was not a consideration.) I like my Duratracs but I think they would be a little noisy for a DD. I'm 50/50 highway to off-road.

I shopped around for months and found the best price at Sam's ... until Kaufmann Tire (sorry, only in Georgia and Florida) beat them by $20 per tire. Plus, they removed my TPMSs and transferred them to my new wheels (M/T Classic IIIs) and aired up , balanced my old tires and put them in my Jeep for me, all for free.

All I can say is shop around. Read reviews. Consider how and where you drive. Then get the best price for the best service.

Ok, that last picture is just nasty.

glazier

I have done lots of homework, read reviews, and asked around the forum about a good set of tires for my area / needs. Lots of people have pointed me to the Duratracs and that is pretty much what I'm going to end up with. I haven't heard anything about the MT Baja. Not one person suggested them to me that they would fit my needs. I found it funny that store owner was so adamant that I was making a wrong choice inquiring about Duratracs, KO2 and Toyo at2. I have read good reviews on them all.

espi

Ya, sounds like he has some inventory to get rid of.

You will be happy with the Duratracs when I sold my 285s they had 18000 miles on them and over 80% tread. I did a 5 tire rotation every 5000 miles.

CO Jeeper

I think you'll be happy with Duratracs. I liked my 33" Duratracs so much (in the snow as well as all around DD tires), I wanted to get them in 37s. They don't make them in that size so I went with something else but I kept my Duratracs as Winter tires.

When I was looking for tires, I thought these two sites had the best consolidated information:

• Massive 4x4 Tire Guide - Four Wheeler Magazine
• Biggest Little Tire Test - Off-Road Magazine

As far as where to buy them, I went with Discount Tires Direct (I was considering Walmart because they had the tire I wanted in stock but DTD matched their prices on a comparable, more expensive tire) and they were shipped free (tax free as well) to my door.

2012JWSU

Did you do a lift? I have the same tires and did 1.5" wheel spacers. But still kinda looks sad!

2012JWSU

I got mine at Town Fair Tire. They match the Discount Tire price and get free tire rotations. And an alignment

Jeepinjim

Does anyone know a source for the old Armstrong Tru Tracs? I am in Cali and used to use them back in the early 90's on an old CJ 5