Recommend tires for my Jeep Wrangler

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Can anyone recomment some good All-Terrain tires for my beloved 1991 Jeep Wrangler, 4.0 li./6-cyl.?

The time has come to replace my tires, and I am befuddled by the choices. I mean, its easy to simply select the most expensive set (prices seem to range anything from $50-175/tire)--but does that mean you're getting a good value? My Wrangler spends 80% of time doing City Driving, and 20% of the time off-road.

The local tire guy (cool guy, not pushy salesman) recommends the Bridgestone Dueler A/T's. Says for $113/tire they're a good value and most popular one they sell for 4x4's.

Anyway, any/all help, suggestions, recommendations appreciated.
 
What kind of off-road does your Jeep see?
If light work... logging roads, shallow mud, snow...etc. I've used a BF Goodrich "Trail TA" on a Jeep Cherokee and had great results... good traction, quiet on the road, good long life.

For heavy off-road I used a set of BF Goodrich "All Terrain TA" on my Jeep YJ for years and ran through all manner of tough trail abuse and never had a stuck or a problem... again a nice quiet road tire with enough bite to get you through most anything.

Then if you get real serious about off-road, I went with a set of Goodyear Wrangler MT's... these are noisy, rough riding, sling mud in your eye tires. Air them down to 10 psi and I doubt there is anything they wouldn't climb over or cut through.

All these tires have been great... for the money the Trail TA is hands down the best bargin for the money. IMHO

Goodluck...
 
I have to second the suggestion to go 'all terrain.' I had to replace all five of my wife's tires on her Explorer. I was the one driving when the tread let go. Fortunately, it was at 20 MPH.

Even though it snows where I live I recommend tires that handle rain. 90% of the time vehicles are driven on the road, and then briefly off road when camping. Driving on rain slick roads will be a problem that you run into a lot.

I have 17" tires on my truck, and they're about due to be replaced. My selection will be further limited by the smaller selection of tires in that size. At one time they only made two kinds. My first question will be on how they handle wet roads.

Now, if you do drive off road a lot, or live in an area with many dirt roads, that's another matter to consider.
 
For seriously cool looking tires, the way to go as has been suggested is the BF Goodrich All-Terrain T/A. Many people buy their SUVs and trucks and immediately take the new tires off and put the T/As on.

That being said, if the T/A is too all terrain for you, some good suggestions from Goodyear are Wrangler RT/S, GS-A, SR-A, and AT/S. These are popular standard issue tires on Wranglers, Durangos, Grand Cherokees, and Avalanches. For what it is worth the GS-A is the standard issue off-road tire on Wranglers currently.

Bucky
 
Guncollector,
Did you talk to a sales guy at a "Mastercare Firestone" or just some tire store?? I work for Mastercare Bridgestone/Firestone Inc as the "Manager of Tire Sales". We have the nationwide warranty, free rotations every 5000 miles and excllent tires(I'm paid to say that. :) ) The Bridgestone Dueler A/T is an excellent tire, but what I'm getting to is our "30 Day" test drive for Bridgestone/Firestone tires. Ask about it. Buy a set of Duelers(at a corporate owned store), drive around for 3 weeks, if you don't like them, take them back. Any reason or no reason. :)


Blades
 
well my first suggestion is going to be TSL Super Swamper radials (SSRs)
But since you said A/Ts id say get the BF goodrich all-terrain T/As NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE LONG TRAIL T/As!!, the Long Trail T/As are great for onroad but HORRIBLE offroad, my dad had them on his yukon and he got it stuck in our front yard with 3 inches of snow!


like as stated before, one of the things you definetaly want to consider is the type of offroad terrain you traverse, if its rocky and somewhat dry, then A/Ts will probably be fine, but if its mostly mud and water, the treads on A/Ts tend to pack up and turn into slicks in the mud.

oh and M/Ts arent THAT bad onroad, besides, YJs arent all that quiet to begin with, thats why he bought a wrangler in the first place, cause it does so well offroad! not cause its quiet!:rolleyes:
 
Thanks everyone for the replies and advice!

I think I'm going to go with the A/T, seeing that 80% of my driving is on City roads, and the other 20% off-road is mostly logging or fire roads--and occasional trips up into snow country in the Winter.

The knowledge base of this Community never ceases to amaze.
 
Blades-

Can you tell me the plain-speak difference between Bridgestone Dueler H/L's and Dueler A/T's. The reason I ask, is my local tireship mistakenly put on H/L's when I asked for A/T's. When I pointed out the problem, the Sales Manager said the H/L's would be better for the majority of the City driving that I do--and said the A/T's would be "noisy like crazy".

I tended to doubt his unbiased opinion, and am a little uneasy about having been "talked into" keeping the H/L's. But I have 30-days to return them for the A/T's.

BTW, I want good performance off-road tires for the 20% of the driving I do off-road--and I don't mind a bit of noise on the highway as the Wrangler isn't that quiet anyways.

Your advise as a Bridgestone dealer is greatly appreciated. :)
 
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