Thread: 70 series - what mod or what mod NOT to get

Originally Posted by Vault

Yep all true, i went everywhere on AT's untill one day I didnt.. bought a set of Hi-fly Vigorous MT's and never looked back.

Sure you need some experience and nouce to drive a good line, use the right gear and ratio but generally unless extreme where diff lockers, winches are needed a good set of MT's will get you further than road tyres.

Ive seen people in Dunedin stuck on their own front lawns with AT's.

Next to modern diff technology, knobbly tyres were the next level of tech..

I ran a lifted xj cherokee with Maxxis Muds, I pulled a lot of hilux's, surfs, bighorns even few land cruisers out of a lot of mud and rivers with just raw 4 litre petrol power grunt and good tyres

Looking at the photo of the truck mentioned above, in my opinion it wont be less capable with a decent set of tyres and a 2 inch lift

Yes, but also no. You haven’t mentioned tyre pressures.

Tyre pressure and footprint trumps a fully inflated MT tread pattern pretty much every time.

The sensible money is on a decent AT tyre that you can really run effectively on all terrains, with the proviso that you are adjusting your tyre pressures accordingly.

We’ve all rescued pillocks who have got themselves into trouble and the common denominator pretty much every time is that they are running their tyres fully inflated. The last recovery we did was a Disco II out of soft wet sand and an incoming tide. A flash rig with big flash fuckwit tyres an’ all. I refused to drive onto the beach and the guy was getting really toey with us. All I needed was my tyre pressure gauge and a sea shell - dropped his tyres down to 10psi and I drove the fucking thing straight out. (Wouldn’t let him do it.)

MTs are shit on the bitumen, shit in sand, shit pretty much all the time except in proper mud, assuming you’ve got your pressures right. And even then it’s very easy to get into trouble in mud with MTs. 95% of 4WD drivers spend 95% of the time on bitumen or prepared gravel roads, so I cannot get my head around why we would advise this fella to put MTs on his truck (when he doesn’t even want a bullbar).

I run F&R lockers, winch, lifted, manual 4WD as a general purpose go anywhere vehicle and I don’t run MTs, for good reason. End of rant!