Best 37-38" tire for 80% offroad, ~2000 road miles/year max

Best ~37" tire for 80% offroad, 2000 miles/year max

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Time for some new shoes on the Jeep. Wanting to put a tire that is primarily offroad focused, but can still handle a couple trips to work and the mall every month. I've had TSL SX's and Maxxis Creepy Crawlers before. My experience was that the Creepys had much better grip offroad, but the TSL SX's held up a little better on road. Share your knowledge.
 
I love the Goodyear MTrs, Ive never felt like they are a limiting factor. I havent ran any of the others so it's tough for me it give a full educated unbiased opinion. That said, Ive been looking to try another tire. Pitbull is been at the top of that list, Maxxis next
 
Creepies. Best tires i ever had on my rig.
Wish they made em in 42"
 
36x12.50-15 classic TSL's. They measure the same or more as most 37's. They are several lbs lighter than the SX's.
 
Main thing I'm trying to balance is sticky traction on rocks and wear on the road.
 
I struggled with this for about a month, I finally decided on mtrs, have nothing bad to say about them. If I didn't drive on the highway 2 to 4 k a year probably would a went tsl classic.
 
Paul said:
Creepies. Best tires i ever had on my rig.
Wish they made em in 42"
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I was impressed with the ones I had a few years ago, but didn't get a chance to compare them to anything else on the same obstacle. How is the traction on wet and dry rock compared to other tires on my list?
 
I think the nitto trail grappler or toyo open country mt are a great dual purpose tire. They seem to work well offroad and balance out great. They will probably be the next set of tires on my daily driver.

Ive heard alot of good things about the new falken wildpeak mt's also. They are a competition compound but seem to wear well on the road for a sticky. The price isn't too bad for a sticky also....

FALKEN TIRE MT mud terrain 37" 35" 17" nitto goodyear maxxis bfg
 
I've rock crawled, raced, rallied, and street driven 37" tires in MTR/K, bias Pit Bull Rocker, radial Pitbull Rocker, and Hankook Dynapros. I thought the Hankooks crawled and performed better on the race track. The MTR/K was probably the best in the group on the street. The Pitbull radial Rocker probably got the most attention from a conversation stand point (people asking about them at gas stations, etc) and the bias Rocker was the worst of all of them.

The MTR/Ks have the weakest sidewalls from what I have experienced and seen, but are like 15% lighter weight than the others. Easier on your 0-60mph and axle shafts.

Pitbulls were the loudest on the street and hardest to balance.

I have zero experience with them, but really like what I have seen from the new Nitto M/Ts. Tough, grippy.

All of them are going to be fine for what you are describing though.
 
Best "MTR" Style tire I have owned and run is the Nitto Trail Grappler. A few different sizes on a few different trucks and each time the off road and on road performance has been great.
 
I guess I should clarify. I'm not really concerned with street manners. I would like to be able to drive it on the street, so not looking for a truly sticky competition compound, but if I can get 5-10k miles out of them, that would be fine. Hell at the rate I've been going, that would be 20 years!

DSM Turbos said:
Your yard doesn't count as rocks :)
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I have a gravel driveway :flipoff2:
 
in my long years of focusing on tires and traction, get a good tire that has good foundation and groove em to fit your custom needs. as I did with thornbird that nobody would dare run, they have outperformed TSLs grooved and even boggers in mud. just my 2cents. sure grooving takes time but you get to make your tread and lugs do what you design them to do. good luck in your tire search
 
I'm making the exact same tire decision right now and with the limit of being 16" only (for now) it's harder than ever before.

I loved my 37" swamper SSRs and would love to go back to those.
Next choice would be a SX.
 
My recollection of the SXs was that the tread compound was a bit hard. I assume that's why they came out with the SXIIs. Hopefully I can get some wisdom from someone who has ran them.

I'm leaning towards a 37 or 38.5" creepy in a 16" variety to run on these wheels because they are cheap and good looking:

Wheel Details - Discount Tire Direct
 
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Compound is great on sx2s, but they are square.....

As well, the tire doesn't run true. You can watch the tread at hwy speed. Higher psi helps, but they ride worse than 44" boggers or 39" sx's

My 36" iroks were the best for sure on the road, even unbalanced. I put 40k miles on them and sold them when I went to wontons. Only downfall is not as tough as sx, or til offroad.
 
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Mac5005 said:
Compound is great on sx2s, but they are square.....

As well, the tire doesn't run true. You can watch the tread at hwy speed. Higher psi helps, but they ride worse than 44" boggers or 39" sx's
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Speaking of boggers, I had a set of 37" boggers on a YJ once. 5 miles later they went up for sale.
 
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