To make a long story short, I just switched jobs, and I will be taking my truck to work again:smokin: But the boggers I have on it require me to take to advil some days by the time I get there, does anyone have any expierence with the new bfg KM2's? I am sure they wheel well, but is the noise bad? I know the crawlers are just as loud as the bias ply swampers, but is the new tread, although tighter, shorter, and no bias loud as hell too? I can get a deal on km2's, but I am also looding at mtz's, (gasp)atz's, and radial claws. My truck is an 03 F-250, I am going to run 37's, I wheel in sand and a crap load of water, maybe you could call it mud, but it is just water on top of sand, with the occasional rock trip. I don't want to go to an A/T, but I have been driving bias ply tires for awhile, maybe I am forgetting how loud quiet the radials are. One other thing I am worried about, on the tires mentioned, anyone have expierence in ice and rain, I know my truck can lose traction in the ice and rain now with the boggers, but how are the claws, mtz's and km2's? Thanks a bunch, I am gonna miss the boggers in the woods:(

Damn, this turning into a long story:shaking:

I daily drive my rig and have 35 MTR's Thinking about 37's but I got such a good deal on the 35's I started with them.

how far a cummute? traffic or highway speeds? How loud is your radio?

I had the ATZ's and they only went 18k miles and were crap off-road, granted they looked cool. Rain and snow they were dogs.

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I went from them to the ProComp Xtreme AT's and it was night and day difference off-road, plus the road noise was not so bad. Not too bad in the rain and snow.

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The KM2's a buddy of mine has on his HD and he loves them, granted his is only a mall crawler and never sees off-road. He rotates them every 4k miles and he has 30k miles on them now with plenty of life left.

I vote for the KM2s. They will be like street slicks compared to anything Interco makes. The MTZs straight suck in the mud. They DO NOT clean out at all. I'd go claws before I went MTZs. ATZs are an all terrain and will perform like such. Medeocer every where and great no where. I wouldn't buy an All Terrain if I had to. The tread life difference and noise difference between a radial M/T and an A/T is minute at best, and the off-road abilites of the M/T far out wiegh anything about an A/T.

stay away from Toyo's AT...mine flat out suck. Mine are wearing really fast.

Thanks for all the info guys, the commute is 15 miles, but I do make a 200 mile round trip to go hunting and wheel in the truck every couple of weeks, looks like the km2's may be the way to go, the radial claws sound tempting now too!:smokin:

i daily drive on 40'' MTR's, they are by far the best 'dual purpose' tire ive used...i used to daily drive on 38.5 sx's....that SUCKED! i drive 15 miles each way, every day and a couple hundred or so on the weekends from 0-75 mph

my tires are siped too, works great on wet pavement and rocks

I also have had terrific luck with the MTR's off road and on even in the winter.

i use my LTB's on a DD and weekend wheeler, they wear a little fast but i love them onroad and off but then again i never tried any others yet

:mr-t::mr-t:stay away from Toyo's AT...mine flat out suck. Mine are wearing really fast.

well it all depend on the matireal and grade, my dad has a set of toyo's and they held up well. if you want durrability you want harder tires but if you want traction go with softer tiers you probably have the softer kind of tire, but maybe my dad was a special case.
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you can do what i do by a pair of cheap tires for daily driving and good tires for off roading.

thanks for all of the input guys, really appreaciate the information!

For a 15 mile commute, anything other than boggers will be ok. I dd my big truck when its not in a million pieces. 42" bias tsl's. They warm up after a few minutes and drive great. Better than the old 38" SSR's ever did. They're not even balanced.

i think you would be just fine with any radial. i have had a set of 31in BFG mts that i drove 50 miles a day for a year. then went to 35in pro comp MTs, there a tad louder but probaly have 20% mor tread on the road. both of them where preaty quiet. cant beat the buy 3 get 1 free on the pro comp tires, drive the crap out of them.

I'd stay away from the Nitto tires too. I bought a set for my DD, a 04 Ram 4x4 and they suck. No mileage outta them, 25k rite now and slick as snot. These are the terra grapplers too, not the mud grapplers. I got more mileage outta my old bias Mickey Thompson Baja Belted tires! (35k)