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JK Newbie
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From: uniontown,pa
Tires
Hay guys got a tire question for you...looking at two tires and cant pick witch one. Super swamper irok radial......or ssr radial 37's longer life, better off road, road maners.... just unsure what to do. Thanks
on the road manners
JK Junkie
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From: The San Andreas Fault
Yep!
If you are looking for road manners and good off road performance look elsewhere with tires such as the: Toyo MTs, Mickey Thompson MTZs or the like.
If you are lucky enough to drive your JK mostly off road or don't care about chainsaw noise or your teeth rattled then by all means pick one of the Super Swampers.
If you are looking for road manners and good off road performance look elsewhere with tires such as the: Toyo MTs, Mickey Thompson MTZs or the like.
If you are lucky enough to drive your JK mostly off road or don't care about chainsaw noise or your teeth rattled then by all means pick one of the Super Swampers.
JK Super Freak
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From: Lawrenceville, NJ
This is one of those relative questions....where the baseline is unclear.
If one were to consider a racing slick with a low profile sidewall to handle best, but perhaps have a harsher ride, and a Bogger for example to handle worst, with everything else more in the middle of the bell curve, between them....
...No one would ever say ANY mud tire is "great on the road", as, there are NO MT's that handle as well as ANY hwy tire, etc....
...the design compromises, such as large tread blocks with large voids between them, simply make for squirrelly handling, as the blocks them selves are like wearing rubber high heels to run an obstacle course....too much motion/tread squirm, etc, to handle well.
What happens though, is we get used to a baseline, so, those of us who drive on swampers, etc....get used to that as a baseline....and like learning to walk on stilts, etc....we start to think of the rubber high heeled handling as good, compared to a even more rubbery high heeled tire, and so forth.
When I go from LTB's to AT ko's for example, of essentially the same size, its like, whoa, go cart time as far as steering response/handling, etc.....but w/o the swapping back and forth...the LTB's seem great.
I get in the wife's mini cooper, and its go cart time again, as the difference is now presented in CONTRAST to something.
So, if you autocross, etc...and you were picking tires for it....you would not gain an edge over your competitors with a "great handling interco tire", as there's no such thing....
...there are poor handling interco tires, and of those, some that are better than others, but if the worst tires for handling were rated 1, and the racing slick is a 10, the swamper line is ranged from maybe 1-1.5, from worst to best.
If one were to consider a racing slick with a low profile sidewall to handle best, but perhaps have a harsher ride, and a Bogger for example to handle worst, with everything else more in the middle of the bell curve, between them....
...No one would ever say ANY mud tire is "great on the road", as, there are NO MT's that handle as well as ANY hwy tire, etc....
...the design compromises, such as large tread blocks with large voids between them, simply make for squirrelly handling, as the blocks them selves are like wearing rubber high heels to run an obstacle course....too much motion/tread squirm, etc, to handle well.
What happens though, is we get used to a baseline, so, those of us who drive on swampers, etc....get used to that as a baseline....and like learning to walk on stilts, etc....we start to think of the rubber high heeled handling as good, compared to a even more rubbery high heeled tire, and so forth.
When I go from LTB's to AT ko's for example, of essentially the same size, its like, whoa, go cart time as far as steering response/handling, etc.....but w/o the swapping back and forth...the LTB's seem great.
I get in the wife's mini cooper, and its go cart time again, as the difference is now presented in CONTRAST to something.
So, if you autocross, etc...and you were picking tires for it....you would not gain an edge over your competitors with a "great handling interco tire", as there's no such thing....
...there are poor handling interco tires, and of those, some that are better than others, but if the worst tires for handling were rated 1, and the racing slick is a 10, the swamper line is ranged from maybe 1-1.5, from worst to best.
JK Junkie
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From: Rochester, NY
My trXus on my Cherokee required no excessive balancing. They rocked here in the NE mud. In the clay, the Iroks would be better, but I hate the directional tread on them. The new non directional tread looks less aggressive?
