I've gotten my moneys worth (and a bit) from the tires on my Cherokee and when one went flat today decided rather than put a plug in it I'd go ahead and get new tire$.
BJ's generally has pretty good prices on tires and they are on the way home so I stopped there. Told the kid behind the counter what I had and what size tire I wanted and he showed me his list of what they had in stock in the size i wanted (235x70x15).
He started writing it up and then grabbed a book and started looking the Jeep up, the asked me if was a Sport, an SE, or a Grand... It's not any of those, it's just a basic real Cherokee. So then he tells me the biggest tire they can put on it is a 225x70x15).
Never mind that every tire that's been on that thing except the factory ones, for the last 250,000 miles or so, have been 235's, he said they couldn't put on anything bigger than what his silly book said.
I'm not a kid any more, and I wouldn't accept his answer... my money, my Jeep, so I asked to speak with his boss. He got an older guy and we went back and fourth a bit, finally telling him I've got over a quarter million miles on that Jeep with that size tire and I wasn't changing now. He finally told the kid the size I wanted was OK, and I got my new
235x70x15 Michelins. Sometimes stubbornness pays off .This is a 2 wheel drive (I know, don't say it!), basic 2 door six cylinder 5 speed Cherokee, what size tires would you guys (or gals) run on it? Being a 2 wheel drive obviously it spends its time on the street, and a lot of highway miles.
What it lacks in off road prowess it makes up for in reliability and the ability to surprise stupid kids in Mustangs and rice burners... shortly after I got the thing it dawned on me that if I was to order a Jeep to be as fast as possible it would be my little Cherokee!
Jeff DeWitt