Time for new shoes

a_kelley

a_kelley

mechanical fixer
Joined
Jan 26, 2010
Location
Rutherfordton
My wife's grand Cherokee is due for some new rubber.

I'm looking for a compromise of price and longevity. Her and my truck is stock. Well, mine is mostly, except for being overladen and beefed springs and leveled. (2-3" maybe)

Michelin's suck off road and in snow, although they wear slow due to being harder rubber. $600/set (60k++)

BFG wrangler, noisy, quick wear on the windy secondary roads, but cheap. $300 a set (40k?)

Kenda Kinetica's, dirt cheap, quiet, really short life (20k with perfect align on my Jeep, down to slicks - never had to rotate f/r even tread depth, guess due to weight distribution and driving habits, throttle to floor, hard braking, heavy for an xj, 4900# with my 150# ass in it, 3400# empty?), awesome traction on road or ice, cheap cheap. $270 a set -- so sticky, when new your hands stick to the tire mounting them)

Any other options worth looking into? I've got to do something for her truck even if it's put her wheels/tires on mine.

And of course, they are 235/75-15, thought about a set of 17" steelies for my Jeep and run 265's as they are plentiful, but would kill my power when I occasionally tow my trailer with a car, (yeah yeah, I know, I need a 1500-3500 service truck, anyone got a service body for cheap? I know of a truck that needs a motor, but needs love and a bed to be useful for my daily work vehicle, mobile mechanical service of all sorts)
 
I had a set of kuhmo road venture a/t's on my old (2000) 2wd f250 for a looong time. About a year ago I got nails in almost all of them and tried my damnedest to get another set, but I couldn't find them anywhere nearby in stock. They were great daily driver tires with a little meat and lots of siping for adverse conditions. Looks like they have updated the shoulders/sidewalls on some sizes recently.

ROAD VENTURE AT - Kumho Tire USA, Inc.
 
Fuck Michelins. We bought a set of LTXs for Cyd's Exploder about five years ago. They've got 40k on them, and they've been bald and badly dryrotten for a couple of years already.
 
shawn said:
Fuck Michelins. We bought a set of LTXs for Cyd's Exploder about five years ago. They've got 40k on them, and they've been bald and badly dryrotten for a couple of years already.
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It's people like you that gave Exploders a bad reputation :flipoff2:
 
All the Michelin LTXs I've ever run got 50k+ but they are expensive and absolutely sucked in wet grass, mud and snow. Like stuck with 4wd in wet grass.. on flat ground. Definitely will look into nittos and toyos.
 
Whatever you decide check discounttiredirect on eBay. Currently offering $100 off. I got fallen wildpeak at3 32"X11.5x15 for $508 delivered. Could of gotten the cooper discoverer at3 for $496 plus a $70 MIR
 
shawn said:
Fuck Michelins. We bought a set of LTXs for Cyd's Exploder about five years ago. They've got 40k on them, and they've been bald and badly dryrotten for a couple of years already.
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Thats like saying I bought a red car and it sucked.

There are literally 7 different tires in the LTX family.
 
Fair enough. You bought a cruze and it was slow corvettes are also.

I've put 75k on 2 different sets of ltx at2z on my 250
 
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