New tires for an LJ Daily

shelby27604

shelby27604

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The tires on my regularly driven LJR are about due for a replacement, currently riding on 245/75/16's on Factory Moabs. The jeep has a 1" body lift and looks like it skips leg day at the gym with these tires.

What does everyone recommend tires wise for a daily that needs to get me down the highway and to some remote trail heads in the western side of the state? I have Goodyear duratracs now, and I hate these tires, the drone is awful, the ride is junk. I used to run Goodyear Silent Armor tires on my K20 and I absolutely loved them, but they are gone now.

Long term, the jeep needs some suspension upgrades, but I will probably run through the next set of tires before I get into a new lift kit, looking for something that rides well, and doesn't rub. I see a lot of people switching to JK and JL wheels to step upto 17's, I am not against that, but I also like to look for the factory offset vs. the flush look of the newer wheels.
 
shelby27604 said:
The tires on my regularly driven LJR are about due for a replacement, currently riding on 245/75/16's on Factory Moabs. The jeep has a 1" body lift and looks like it skips leg day at the gym with these tires.

What does everyone recommend tires wise for a daily that needs to get me down the highway and to some remote trail heads in the western side of the state? I have Goodyear duratracs now, and I hate these tires, the drone is awful, the ride is junk. I used to run Goodyear Silent Armor tires on my K20 and I absolutely loved them, but they are gone now.

Long term, the jeep needs some suspension upgrades, but I will probably run through the next set of tires before I get into a new lift kit, looking for something that rides well, and doesn't rub. I see a lot of people switching to JK and JL wheels to step upto 17's, I am not against that, but I also like to look for the factory offset vs. the flush look of the newer wheels.
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I plan to run Cooper Rugged Trek's in a 265/70R16 on my XJ, for all the reasons you listed. I want to keep the 16's, I want it to be reasonably quiet, and I want it to still have decent performance offroad. I had a set on my Ram 1500 and was very pleased with them (until the truck got totaled).
 
I’m on my second set of Toyo Open Country AT3s on my wife’s Grand Cherokee. I’ve been really happy with them. If they had a white letter version, there would be a set of them on my truck.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Ok grandpa, what is this? 1995?

(I like white letters too ;))
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I started seeing pics of newer Ford trucks in two-tone with white letter tires on the book of faces. Beautiful retro look, and so I fell for it. I won’t be doing the two-tone thing though unless my interwebs feet pictures business takes off 🤪
 
jeepinmatt said:
I plan to run Cooper Rugged Trek's in a 265/70R16 on my XJ, for all the reasons you listed. I want to keep the 16's, I want it to be reasonably quiet, and I want it to still have decent performance offroad. I had a set on my Ram 1500 and was very pleased with them (until the truck got totaled).
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Another vote for 265/70R16s if you're not lifting. Noticeably wider than the stock 245s when mounted on TJ Moabs. Really happy with my current General Grabber A/Ts for the price. Also I've been very satisfied with Cooper Discoverer AT3 (pricey) and the budget friendly Cooper Discoverers (currently on-sale at Wallymart $135 each).
 
simpleman01 said:
Another vote for 265/70R16s if you're not lifting. Noticeably wider than the stock 245s when mounted on TJ Moabs. Really happy with my current General Grabber A/Ts for the price. Also I've been very satisfied with Cooper Discoverer AT3 (pricey) and the budget friendly Cooper Discoverers (currently on-sale at Wallymart $135 each).
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265/70 are the same diameter as 245/75, were you worried about rubbing if you went up in size? I was hoping to step up a little in overall diamter, 235/85 or 265/75 were what I was shooting for. The only concern was that most 235 options don't list the moab rim width on their spec sheet, but I don't think this set of tires will see any extreme air down.
 
shelby27604 said:
265/70 are the same diameter as 245/75, were you worried about rubbing if you went up in size? I was hoping to step up a little in overall diamter, 235/85 or 265/75 were what I was shooting for. The only concern was that most 235 options don't list the moab rim width on their spec sheet, but I don't think this set of tires will see any extreme air down.
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Another thing to consider: Most of the 75 or 85 series tires are gonna be load range D or E, whereas the 70 series tires are a "standard" tire and will ride and drive a lot better on a sub 5k pound vehicle.
 
shelby27604 said:
265/70 are the same diameter as 245/75, were you worried about rubbing if you went up in size? I was hoping to step up a little in overall diamter, 235/85 or 265/75 were what I was shooting for. The only concern was that most 235 options don't list the moab rim width on their spec sheet, but I don't think this set of tires will see any extreme air down.
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I decided to keep the stock axles with 3.55 gears (for now), so 265/70s on 3.5" OME lift ended up being about right for daily driver duties. Keep in mind I'm in an XJ; not sure which tire sizes work without rubbing on a LJ. @jeepinmatt brought up great point about load ranges. I'd think D or E tires would be really stiff, relatively heavy, and unnecessary for your application.
 
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