- Mud tires and snow are a little bit like fire
and gasoline, right?
They're a little bit explosive,
they're fun at a Friday night party
and they look really cool,
but they're not exactly great for getting anything done.
But just how bad our mud tires in the snow,
you guys might ask?
Well, good news, I'm Dustin with the Customer Offsets.
And today we're here live on location.
We've actually got a set of mud tires
and a set of all-terrains.
And we're gonna put them both to the test
in a series of a couple of different challenges
and truly find out just how much better
is an all-terrain than a mud tire in the snow.
Let's get it.
So the first setup we're gonna look at today
of wheels and tires is a set of 20x12 black and milled
fuel Mavericks, of course, an iconic wheel,
it's been around for a long time.
And then wrapped around that is a set
of 35x12.5R20 Nitto Mud Grapplers, right.
So a mud tire and honestly, a pretty noisy tire at that.
So we drove this one over here, made a quite a bit of noise.
Massive centered lugs, of course,
our centered channels in the tire.
So really, just a really aggressive tire
when it comes to mud tires.
One of the most aggressive on the market.
So we're gonna put this one to the test,
and then compare it to the all-terrain today.
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So that was absolutely not fun.
We just ran the first test here,
and you can see Ryan's right there actually,
he's very blown out.
Hold on Ryan.
There, look at you!
So anyway, we just ran the first test
and it was absolutely not fun at all,
we had no traction whatsoever.
I tried to go to 40, we did about 30,
and I think about 15 miles an hour of that
was actually just wheel spin.
So it wasn't a lot of fun,
but yeah, we're gonna get lined up for the second test.
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You know, that was impressive.
Honestly, I expected that to be way worse than it was,
but it stopped relatively well. Let's pace it off
So about 11 paces actually, which is, I mean like 30 feet,
20 feet from my short little legs,
which actually isn't too bad.
I expected this to be way worse.
We are in a pretty snow covered environment.
So I expected these to just skid right over the top,
but actually under braking force, they did stop really well.
Now getting up to speed was not fun.
The truck was all over the board.
It was sideways and it was nuts and all we did a spin.
So I'll be really interested to see how the all-terrain does
in comparison.
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So in terms of the all-terrain tire today, guys,
we're gonna have this set of 20 by 12 T I S five,
four fours in black and milk,
and then wrapped around it as a set of 35 at 12 and a half
venom power, Tara hunter XTS.
So that's gonna be venom powers hybrid.
All-terrain right. A little bit more close tread pattern.
Definitely doesn't make as much road noise as what the,
the mud grapplers did. So we're excited.
We're gonna dive right into the test and see how this one
compares to the a Matar
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We just ran the all-terrain tire test here as well.
And quite honestly it was okay at best. Right?
So it definitely grabbed a little bit better than the mud
tires did. However we did notice,
or I did notice that we did spin a little bit more off the
line than the mud tires,
where the mud tires kind of dove down and grabbed into that,
that pavement. The all-terrain kind of floated on top.
Once we got going, though,
I definitely had more traction because they were gripping a
little bit better as we were going. So super interesting.
We're gonna get through the next two tests. See what happens
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Now that was a turn of events.
So you guys probably can't see it just judged on the fact of
the angle of the camera,
but we are definitely further from the line with the,
the altar. And then we were at the mud tire actually.
So let's go take a walk quick.
We're gonna pace this one out and see where it ended up.
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So this is where the all-terrain tire ended
or where the mud tire ended.
Excuse me, this is where the mud tire ended.
So it's actually about 18 and a half paces off,
which is another, roughly 20 feet, actually 15 feet from,
from where we stopped with the mud tire.
So super interesting.
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All right, guys.
So we're here in the shop.
It's a little cold out in Wisconsin today,
so we thought we'd come back and actually get into the shop
and go over this stuff.
So we're gonna go over each of the two tires there and
then the three tests break it down
and then ultimately kind of give you guys our feedback.
So we're gonna rate them on a scale of zero to five,
zero being the worst.
That's like you have this nice little sad smiley face five
it's good, right?
Green smiley face. So starting with the mud tire,
we have the Excel test.
We have the stopping test and we have the slalom otherwise
known as agility.
Perfect. So up first is the acceleration test.
A couple of things we noticed here,
when you look at that mud tire,
I noticed that it spun a lot more off the line and that's by
design.
So those mud tires are really designed to dig straight down
in the mud in the clay and find good traction.
And that's exactly what it did. Even in the snow.
Now the traction test we did, of course,
we on a little bit more hard packed snow, right?
So unfortunately the mud tire didn't do super great.
I'm gonna give that a two, but that comes with a caveat,
right? So in hard-packed snow like that,
a mud tire, really not the best option. Again,
it wants to dig down so much.
So in fact that when we try to do doughnuts in the snow,
we ended up just doing a big fat burn-out
and roasting the tires off in the back.
So where that mud tire is really gonna shine though,
guys, as in that thick powdery, snow, very deep, right?
Cause it's gonna cut straight through.
It's gonna cut down.
That's why a lot of the guys in Canada loved the Yokohama GL
Landers or needle trail grapplers for example, right?
They like a tire that just digs down,
gets down to the traction and then goes so with that,
switching gears,
gonna the all-terrain then we noticed with the
all-terrain that it did seem to kind of float on top of that
ice pack, that snow pack a little bit better.
So where the mud tire dug down the snow tire kind of,
or the all-terrain tire kind of stayed on top and really
floated across there.
We did notice a little bit of wheel spin on,
on takeoff and stuff like that.
It did feel a little bit more squirrely
and kind of slidy as we did that.
However, we did pick up more speed
in the all-terrain than we did it the mud tire as well.
So for that reason,
we're gonna give that one a four. It did fairly well, right?
It did Okay.
Moving on, talking the stopping test.
Now this one actually surprised the hell out of me.
The mud tire actually outperformed the all-terrain.
If you guys are familiar,
that that mud tire actually stopped about seven to eight
paces shorter than what the all-terrain tire did.
So pretty incredible how all that worked for that reason,
the mud tire is gonna get a four here. Right?
It stopped pretty well.
The all-terrain getting a three in last,
but not least is that slalom test,
the agility tests where we actually ran around
the two buckets. Right?
And then came back around there.
So starting with the mud tire,
what we saw there is a lot of spin.
Again, that's that mud tire really trying
to throw the snow out of
the way and get down to that pavement. It works good.
However,
it also means that the truck tends to kind of slide around a
little bit and you don't get as much speed there for that
reason that one's gonna get a three, right?
It did Okay.
But it wasn't great.
And then in terms of the all-terrain tire, right, again,
really sat on top of that snow pack where they kind of
floated over the top and worked super, super well,
honestly was a bit of a handful of drive,
but did pick up more speed. So again,
we're gonna give that one a four.
So when you add all these up, you have 2, 6, 9.
All right. So for seven 11 on that one.
So obviously that makes your all-terrain your winner, right?
We kind of expected that coming into this. However,
it was really interesting for us to actually go through
these tests with you guys and see what actually the
breakdown was, how each tire performed in the snow.
Now again, very circumstantial, right?
Because we were on more of a hard pack in some deeper
powdery snow. I think that you'd have some other results.
So there's our results.
Which one have you guys taken in the snow,
a mud tire or an all-terrain tire?
Let us know down in the comment section below.
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