Mud King tires

I lived up in Northern WV for 12 years or so, they were really popular there. It seemed anybody with a 4WD ran Mud Kings. Cheap, good traction, and lasted a good while.

I prefer the Cooper brand tire too, and have had much luck with the Discoverer series.

Spdloader

Have ya checked out the new Cooper STT's with the new tread pattern, quite a bit more aggresive than the old STT's and sexy side lugging not to mention the re-enforced sidewalls...been running them on my wife's ZJ for the last year and a half...GREAT tire!

Jeff

According to that chart the Kumho MT are the best value in my size.

Also see:

A neighbor up the road has Mud Kings on his CJ5 and he seems happy with them .

Mud Kings are not a switched or new name, but a BFG second line they sell under the 'kings' logo. I had them on my CJ7 when I got it 10 years ago.

The tread is the same style, but seems noisier than the first line BFG muds.

The sidewalls are only 2 ply where the BFG's have 3 ply sidewalls.

They seem to wear well, though I don't know the miles mine got because I don't know how old they were. I got 3 years out of the ones the Jeep came with (I figured less than 50% was left on them) and I am now going on 7 years with the BFG muds and still have about 50% left.

I had no real complaints about them other than the 10.5" wide at the tread was really too large a footprint for the 'best' traction in my CJ7. I radically increased the wheel bite when I went to 33x9.5's that have a 7.5" tread width.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail >

Been running them for about 6 months now. They work great on and off road.

Jeff (4X4PLAY) wrote:

I don't put any faith in the TireRack's customer surveys. Most drivers can't tell if they have a low pressure tire, much less compare the performance to other tires. New tires are always better than the old ones. Mud kings are supposedly the same tire as the old MT, with one less sidewall ply. That makes it a great tire, but for a vehicle driven mostly on pavement, something with smaller lugs will work better, like an AT.

TireRack surveys need to be taken with a grain of salt slightly smaller than a cowlick.

However, it's fairly easy to read the reviews and determine if the rating is credible.

I have been running them since 95 & I like them.. they are in expensive, not a lot of road noise, & for the wheeling I do they work fine!