This Mud Claw M/T tire is for those of you with a 1987 and up Wrangler that are looking
for a big, knobby mud tire to put on your Jeep.
This tire is available for wheels sizes 15 to 17, and in tire sizes, 31 to 35, so that
is going to cover what most of you are going to be running on your Jeep.
This tire here is going to be a little bit less expensive than some of the other ones
out there, simply because it doesn't carry one of the big name brands with it.
However, it's still going to be a very good tire.
So, if you're looking to save a little bit of money, I think this is a really nice place
to look.
Now, when you end up with getting a tire that isn't one of those name brands, you can expect
that maybe not as much R&D has gone into the rubber compound, or the tread pattern, but
this is still going to work very, very well, both on-road and off-road, and, again, save
you a little bit of money, so I definitely think it's going to be worth a look.
So, this is Mud Claw's M/T tire.
They also have an Extreme M/T, which has a little bit of a different tread pattern.
The M/T here is going to be actually a little bit of a more expensive tire.
It, in my opinion, looks to be a little bit more aggressive, but they are going to be
a fairly similar tire.
Now, as with most M/T tires, this is going to have some lugs that come around onto the
sidewall a little bit, not quite as much as some of the more aggressive mud terrain tires
from some of the other brands out there, but it is going to give you a little bit of sidewall
protection, as well as a little bit of sidewall grip, especially when you're airing down that
tire.
The lugs are alternating in both size and in shape, and that's really just designed
to give you as much traction as possible.
They do have a little bit of siping in them right from the factory, that allows those
lugs to bend and really grab onto rocks, but it's not really deep siping, and that's actually
a pretty good thing, because it's going to eliminate a lot of the chunking that you can
get if you had really deep siping down the center of the lug, and a softer compound,
especially if you're working these tires really hard off-road.
In general, they're going to have self-cleaning technology.
The way that these lugs are designed is that do clean themselves out very easily and very
well.
And essentially, that's for when you're in that soft dirt, when you're in the mud off-road.
If a tire gets caked-up with mud, it essentially becomes slick.
You have zero traction, so you get a little bit of wheel speed-up.
It starts to fling that mud out of the treads, giving you traction again, and that's really
the big benefit to a mud terrain tire like this.
Now, when you are looking at different wheel sizes, and tire sizes, of course, the max
tire size that you can run is dependent on your lift and the type of driving that you
do.
The wheel size is really more of a function of aesthetics, but it is a little bit functional
as well.
The smaller wheel you have, the more sidewall you're gonna have on your tire, and that can
be good when you're airing down, giving you a little bit of additional sidewall pressure,
a little bit more of a comfortable right off-road, and just more rubber here that you can grip
the rocks with the sidewall of the tire.
So, a lot of things to consider when choosing a tire, as far as the size goes.
In general, a mud terrain tire is going to wear a little bit faster if you're doing a
lot of on-road driving.
It's, of course, going to be a little bit noisier than an all-terrain tire, on the road.
But, when it comes to off-road traction, a mud tire is going to definitely beat out an
all-terrain every day of the week.
Now, getting a tire installed is going to be something that you're going to want to
leave to a shop.
Of course, we've all seen the videos where people will install and set the bead of a
tire using brake cleaner, starter fluid, definitely, not recommended unless you absolutely have
to for a trail repair.
What you're gonna wanna do is take these to a shop, have them mounted, have them balanced
up with the wheels that you want to run on your Jeep, get them home, and bolt them up.
Of course, we also have wheel-tire packages available.
So, if you are purchasing wheels from us and tires, you can get them mounted and balanced.
They come right out of the box, ready to bolt onto your jeep, skipping the need to go to
a tire shop.
This tire here is going to run you anywhere from about $150 to a little bit north of $300,
and that is going to be dependent on the size of the tire, and the size of the wheel.
Generally, the larger wheel you go with, the more expensive the tire is.
So, that's going to be toward the bottom of the price range for a big, knobby mud terrain
tire like this, and basically, that's just because this is by the Mud Claw brand, and
not by one of the bigger, more well-known brands.
I don't think that the price actually reflects the off-road performance or even the on-road
performance of this tire.
I still think you're getting a very good tire, and you're getting it at a lower price, so
this is going to be a really good buy for a lot of you.
So, if you're looking for a big mud terrain for your Jeep, but you're looking to save
a little bit of money, I would definitely look at the Mud Claw brand, that you can find
right here at extremeterrain.com.