These Nitto Trail Grapplers are gonna be for those of you that have a 1987 and up Wrangler,
and are looking for a 31 to 37-inch tire, fitting a 15 to 20-inch wheel,
that is going to be aggressive enough for the trails, but also, a little bit more mild so it's
going to wear better and be a little bit quieter on the road. Nitto does offer a Mud Grappler,
which is going to be a little bit more of an aggressive tire, so it's going to have lugs that
are spaced even further apart, a little bit of additional siping. It's going to get a little bit
more traction and a little bit more clean-out when you are on the trails, hitting the mud hard, but
they are going to wear a little bit quicker and be much louder on the road than a tire like this.
So this gonna be a really nice balance of a great tire on the trail, but also, a little bit better
on the streets. So if you do have a dual-purpose rig, I think this is going to be a nice option for
you. This also has some other features built right into it that make it a very good off-road tire.
An indicator of a good off-road tire is that it's going to have big lugs
that are going to really grip into the ground, get you over obstacles,
and get you through the sloppy mud. Now, as I said before, this is going to be a little
bit more of a mild tire than Nitto's Mud Terrain. It's still going to have those big lugs, however,
they're just going to be spaced a little bit closer together to offer a little bit less
road noise and a little bit better wear when you're on the street. These lugs are still
going to be siped, and what that means is, they have a slice through the center of them,
and that's really going to enable the tire to flex and move as it's going over obstacles. So when you
air this big tire down, especially off-road, it's going to conform over an obstacle,
give you the most contact with the ground, and give you the most possible traction.
Now, if we step away from the actual tread of the tire, move on to the sidewall here,
this is going to have a good bit of sidewall lug built right into it, as well, and that's gonna do
a couple of different things. You're going to get a lot of traction from that lug on the sidewall,
so when you're crawling on the rocks, you're turning the wheels back and forth,
you are going to be able to grip in this whole shoulder area and even on the sidewall. But,
more than that, this is going to give you a lot of protection against any sort of puncture. The
area that tires fail the most is going to be in the sidewall, especially in the shoulder,
so what Nitto, as well as a lot of the other companies have done is build a tire that has
these sidewall lugs for the looks, for the performance and the traction, but also,
for the protection. That's going to help keep this tire intact and keep you rolling down the
road without having to worry about any sort of issue when you do take this thing wheeling.
As far as installation of this tire goes, you can install a tire like this on a wheel at home
if you choose to. It's going to, most likely, be a difficult process for you. I'm sure you guys have
all seen the videos where people set a bead with some brake clean and a lighter. I don't recommend
doing that. What most of us are gonna do, and the smart thing to do, is to have a shop install this
tire on whatever wheel you decide to run. They're going to be able to do it very easily, using a
tire mounting machine, and of course, they're going to be able to balance that tire out for
you. So once you have the wheel and tire package, it's really just a matter of unbolting your
existing wheel and tire, bolting these onto your Jeep, and the install is going to be very simple.
As far as the price goes, these tires are going to be like all of the other ones, dependent on
the wheel size, and also, the tire size that you choose. Actually, the bigger wheel you go with,
the more expensive the tire is going to be, and of course, the bigger tire you go with,
the more expensive it's going to be, so these are going to range kind of all over the place. Now,
you can expect any big mud terrain 33, 35 by 12.50 to be right around that $250 range and up,
and that's exactly where these are going to fall.
So if you're looking for a tire that's going to perform well both on-road and off-road,
I definitely recommend taking a look at this Nitto
Trail Grappler that you can find right here at extremeterrain.com.