New tire decision

I run the 32x11.50 BFG Mud Terrain tires, the old style not the new KMs that roughly correlate to the All Terrain KO. You might recall that the A/Ts recently became A/T KO, well the M/Ts are now M/T KM. Your choice of rim size is good.

I do not think the MTs wear as well as the ATs, but others will disagree with me on this point. My CJ is not my daily driver, so when I take it out of the barn, I generally drive it slow and easy on the street. If I drove it everyday, I would drive it differently, and could give you a better report on the manners. Since I drive slow, the manners are great.

I bought my jeep a year ago, give or take a couple days. It already had the 33x12.5 Pro-Comp MT tires on it at that time. The tread looked good; it was definitely a half inch deep, if not close to that.

Well, after a year of driving (approx. 12 to 15 thousand miles as a daily driver, often seeing 70 MPH on the freeway, but also going off-road at 15psi every weekend for 4+ months during the summer), the MTs are looking pretty thin. The tread depth is getting pretty low (sorry, no exact measurement for you); it must be no more than 1/8" or so (best guess). I've kept it aligned and rotated the tires, so the wear would seem to be what would be expected "par for the course".

I have not tried the BFG tires, though, so I can't speak to the comparison between the two brands. I would be interested to hear from people who do use BFG MT tires as well, so I can decide if I want to use them when I replace my tires (which will most likely happen this next spring).

/Bob

So what is the difference between the old BFG MTs and the new KMs?

They changed the lugs on the edges. The KM has roughtly equivelent changes as the KO.

Okay. So you are saying the KMs are more like the A/T KOs on the edges. Well not really but I know what you mean. The A/T edges are more closely spaced.

The KMs still look different enough.

Now if there was a pic of the old M/Ts :)

What I thought I said is the AT was changed to the AT KO. The same changes that were done to the AT to make it the AT KO were done to the MT to make it the MT KM. Obviously, the changes were not the same because the tires are remarkably different, but the changes are in the same vein. I think I would need the AT and the AT KO to be side by side to point out the differences, and presumably improvements. I would also need theMT and the MT KM to be side by side to point out the differences. I think the main difference is the tread is more aggressive where it wraps around and becomes the sidewall.

The tread is slightly more aggressive out at the edge and the rim has a beefier ridge to it to supposedly stop it from packing up with dirt when aired down.

Mike

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