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[ZeeJay]

Hello forum peoples, on the hunt for real time suggestions, recommendations, must haves for tires. 2023 JT Willys all stock no lift, nothing snazzy. The factory BFG MTs are doing the MT death thing. The one where MTs wear great until they don’t. Not much in off road with it anymore in fact hasn’t seen dirt in several months, thanks to our booming economy and cheap eggs the need to fall back on it as DD has shifted its priorities as my ZJs are fantastic pigs so their out. Secondary to that it hauls ATVs around on a 7x14 aluminum trailer. My practical side would get a simple all season thing with good load rating…..but vanity overrides that immediately, plus still will take trailer onto dirt to access some areas. What’s the consensus or track record for mild mannered A/Ts around here on a JT? Cheap or expensive doesn’t matter just the jack of all trades master of none but can last more than 10 minutes

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[Lunentucker]

BFG K02 @ 22,000 miles
Rotated every 5,000 front to back.
Wear has been exceptional and even.

 

[ZeeJay]

BFG K02 @ 22,000 miles
Rotated every 5,000 front to back.
Wear has been exceptional and even.

Damn that’s clean wear for 22K. That’s impressive. BFs weren’t completely on my radar but will definitely keep these in mind, honestly dismissed them based on experience. Had them off and on over the years most recently on a Frontier and it was the off-road that killed them same with everything else they were on. They’d just chew up on trails and then highway would finish them off quickly. Granted my trails here are easily traveling 150 plus miles of just dirt to another town so that doesn’t help. All the reasons to dismiss is all the reason to get. Thanks!

 

[NorthCountry]

Just started running these Toyo Open Country AT3's, in 255/80R17 with an E rating. The tires are considered a 33 inch tire weighing in at 50 lbs. Ride nice.

 

[ZeeJay]

Just started running these Toyo Open Country AT3's, in 255/80R17 with an E rating. The tires are considered a 33 inch tire weighing in at 50 lbs. Ride nice.

I thought about some Toyo’s. Always liked the tire, decent grip and ride but they wore like absolute shiate. But….to be fair that was on some WJs with Quadra Trac ll and that set up can be hard on certain tires. Found Dura Tracs handle the WJs really well.

 

[NorthCountry]

I use to run General Grabber ATX's, 285/70R17 (33.5X11) also E rated, weighing 58 pounds, on my 4Runner.
I now have a 2023 Gladiator Sport. And so I'm trying to keep things light duty. These Toyo tires just came out this year. They are 8 pounds lighter and 33X10. A little less road friction. There a lot of great tires out there to choose from. Good luck and safe travels.

 

[jac04]

I am running both BFG KO2s (JL Rubicon take-offs) and factory Falken Wildpeak A/T3Ws on my Mojave. I like them both, but I think the A/T3Ws are a better all-around tire, especially when it comes to highway manners.

 

[ZeeJay]

I am running both BFG KO2s (JL Rubicon take-offs) and factory Falken Wildpeak A/T3Ws on my Mojave. I like them both, but I think the A/T3Ws are a better all-around tire, especially when it comes to highway manners.

Falkens hit my radar recently actually. Couple peeps here locally and believe reading on here or another forum maybe. There was another tire but I can’t remember what it was now.

 

[cranbiz]

I have been happy with my stock Falken A/T's. I do like the KO2's. I ran them on my JK for several years both on and off road until I fell into a set of KM3's.

 

[Stitchedupseats]

Got 20 k on some Bfg km3 37s. Look new still. Over half life of tread left. Now on Nitto ridge grappler 40s heavy and noisier than the bfg.

 

[Mr._Bill]

I like the Goodyear AT Adventure with Kevlar. I bought a set for my 18" Overland wheels last November from Discount Tire. It was around $825 with warranty certificates to have four mounted and balanced using the existing TPMS sensors.

 

[arosen1997]

I just swapped out my set of 35s Yokohama Geolandar X-ATs for a set of 37s. I got about 65000 miles out of them and they wore nice and evenly, probably could've squeezed a few more miles out of them but they were just about 4 years old and the lower the tread got they got a little noisy. That being said, I've had them in every kind of weather and environment from the swamps of the east coast, Rocky mountains, southwest deserts, and high desert/plains up here in Idaho, and I don't think I once ever found myself lacking for grip.

 

[ZeeJay]

I just swapped out my set of 35s Yokohama Geolandar X-ATs for a set of 37s. I got about 65000 miles out of them and they wore nice and evenly, probably could've squeezed a few more miles out of them but they were just about 4 years old and the lower the tread got they got a little noisy. That being said, I've had them in every kind of weather and environment from the swamps of the east coast, Rocky mountains, southwest deserts, and high desert/plains up here in Idaho, and I don't think I once ever found myself lacking for grip.

That is a grip of miles. I just poked around googled and can’t find that one in me wee size. That’s sad

 

[arosen1997]

These would be a half inch wider but about the same height as the stock Willie's tires if my napkin math is correct.
https://www.discounttire.com/buy-tires/yokohama-geolandar-x-at/p/144535

 

[Escape.idiocracy]

Patagonia XT’s. Rotate every 5k and they will last, super quiet, good wet traction on road, off road they do as good as any other AT tire I have owned-if not better. Unfortunately I don’t have a photo of them on a JT in 33” size but I have been very happy with them in 37” fashion. I purchased these with serious skepticism…. Having owned several sets of MT’s that only last 20k miles or so….(their traction on rocks made their low life worth it…) my set has almost 20k now and I am fully expecting to get around 40k total life from them… and by 40k life I mean still enough tread to go mild off roading and feel comfortable. Not 40k and they are drag slicks.

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