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Old 10-01-2012, 10:20 PM   #60 (permalink)
TheEnemy
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The Truck - '99 Nissan Frontier xe
90 day: 25.74 mpg (US)

The Ugly Duck - '84 Jeep CJ7 Rock crawler
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Most mud tires are very soft compounds, and are wider giving the same contact patch with gripier rubber.

My Jeep will outstop my wifes car that has higher end brakes and tires because the tires grip so well as long as it isn't icy. I'm running 31" mud tires which is as tall as I can run and still not stress the front brakes. The back brakes though can't handle even the stock tires so they will get upgraded before I go up to 35's which will also need an upgrade to the front brakes.
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