- Hey, what's going on guys?
Josh from Trail Built,
and in the beginning of September,
we had announced the brand new BFG Trail Terrain
as BFG's newest model in their all-terrain lineup.
The Trail Terrain was designed
for the adventure enthusiast,
who loves to go over-landing, camping,
and just get to those remote off-road locations,
but still have a desirable tire that performs well on road.
I think BFG nailed it with their new Trail Terrain
as I've been running them on my Highlander now
for about a month and a half.
First off guys, when we announced the Trail Terrain
originally back in September, we did only have a couple
of different sizes on our website.
Whereas now we actually have 24 different variation
of sizes, starting with 16 inch wheel diameters,
17 inch, eighteens and twenties.
And you can check them out.
They're right on our website at Trail Built Off-Road.
And we do plan on getting more inventory
of those on our website here in the next few months,
as BFG releases new tire sizes.
So make sure and stay tuned for that.
So, one of the things that we talked about
in our initial video
of the introduction of the Trail Terrains,
was not only the on-road handling
and on-road performance of them
and what they were designed for.
For example, they are an all-weather rated tire,
which basically is like your M plus S rating.
And then,
there's also the three peak mountain snowflake rating,
which we had talked about before as well.
If you're not familiar with the 3PMS rating,
it just means that the tire has met certain criteria
that is set forth by the ASTM
to make sure that they're performing the way they should be
in severe winter driving conditions,
like snow and on ice.
So they are 3PMS rated.
And the nice thing about these tires,
not only are they all-weather rated,
but they have a 60,000 mile tread wear warranty,
which for a 3PMS rated tire is really exceptional.
Because, by theory, the softer the compound,
the stickier it is in colder temperatures,
which should mean that the tire should wear out faster,
but on these Trail Terrains they don't.
They still have a 60,000 mile tread wear warranty
and the 3PMS rated symbol.
So pretty good for BFG to accomplish that.
Another thing too is with that combination of the silica
and rubber in the compound,
it does create them to not only last longer
and be a little bit softer at the same time,
but that also enhances the off-road performance.
When you're off-roading, you have a tire tread compound
that is a little bit grippier, a little bit stickier
while off-roading.
Well that's just going to end up giving you more traction,
whether it's in the rocks, in the dirt, snow, sand,
whatever it may be.
You're just going to have that additional,
more traction off-road.
I had a feeling they were going to perform really well,
but I thought there was going
to be a lot more tire slippage out in the trails,
especially on some of the obstacles that were covered
with just a little bit of layer of water and mud,
where you sort of build up that extra slippery layer
of dirt and mud.
And we were able to, with the Highlander here,
half loaded with gear 'cause most of the gear was
at the campsite, we're still able to maintain
all sorts of awesome traction out in the trails.
Now I did air down to 18 PSI,
whereas street pressures in the Highlander here,
I'm running 32 PSI as I am right now,
but before we hit the trail at the trail head,
we air down to 18 PSI,
both front and rear
just to grab some of that additional traction.
Nice thing about these Trail Terrains is
they still maintain some of the side biters that are more
traditional to the KO2 model.
So being aired down,
that gives you a little extra footprint
on some of the sidewall there where those side biters or
those side cleats are to help grip and bite and get you
that additional traction from the sidewall
when you're aired down, out in the trail.
So there were some obstacles where they had logs
and there was some mud and water covering the logs.
And even with the Highlander,
with the automatic four wheel drive system
and the Trail Terrains,
it literally had no issues with getting over any of the
obstacles out on the trail.
We hit a couple of mud holes that we were able
to walk right through.
And it really set the pace for how well
an all-terrain tire, an all weather all-terrain tire
with the 3PMS rating could perform off-road.
Although BFG did not specifically design
these Trail Terrains to be an off-road tire,
if that's something you're looking for,
obviously they have the KO2 and the KM3
to get you that true hardcore off-road performance.
But the Trail Terrain really is the best of all worlds.
If you're doing mild to moderate off-roading,
you're doing a lot of road driving and street driving,
daily driving, or any situation like that,
The Trail Terrains really absolutely have impressed me more
than any tire that I've ever had on a passenger vehicle
that I've taken off road.
This isn't just being said,
just to sell you guys these tires,
we literally have thousands of other tires on our website,
but from giving you a firsthand experience so far,
I have not been able to pick out any sort of negative issue
with these tires that I've had so far.
So we're going to keep giving you guys updates
as we go along,
but to reiterate what I said
with the Trail Terrains' tread pattern,
with the siping that's involved with them,
with the side biters or the side cleats,
similar to the KO2s, the robustness of the construction
of the tire, the fact that there are 3PMS rated
with a 60,000 mile warranty,
and just the fact that they've exceeded all
of my expectations so far really does put them
at the top of my list at one of the most desired
and preferred tires that I've ran to date.
However, we're still waiting for the snow to fly.
We still really want to put these to the test
here in the winter.
We do want to get a bunch of different on-road and variation
tests to show you guys.
Plus we want to take these things off road,
hit the trails with them covered with snow and ice,
and really show you guys how well they perform.
That's where I really want to see them excel the most,
because well, because if they do well in the snow
or on the ice,
then they're going to do well just about everywhere else.
So make sure and stay along with us
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And guys to find all of the pricing,
all of the different variations of sizes of them,
all of their specs,
you can find them right on our website
at Trail Built Off-Road.
And guys, as always, we appreciate all of you for watching
and all of your support.
I'm Josh with Trail Built,
and we'll see you guys out on the trails.
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