I’ve followed the discussion on snow tires. Do the conclusions (softer rubber wearing shorter periods of time on highways) hold true for mud tires? Secondly, I can not find a mud tire for my 2001 Suzuki Grand Vitara. Is a lift kit and coil spacers my only solution to “fit” a larger mud tire?

I have Goodyear MT/R’s on my Bronco and haven’t gotten stuck yet. If you are tackling some real tough terrain, lockers are your best friend. Air lockers or electric lockers are the easiest to live with.

Is your Suzuki in Nicaragua now? If not, how do you propose to get it there? Drive it?

I have read that with a mud tire you want a design that minimizes the amount of mud that clings to the tire (self cleaning) With a snow tire this self cleaning feature is not so much desirable.

I worked in Central America for many years, and mud was generally not my biggest problem. Blown shocks and cord separations in the tires were my biggest problem, but that was mostly due to the fact that I was young and I drove too fast. Volcanic soils do not make very problematic mud. A lift kit …

Mud tires for Nicaraguan back roads

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GreasyJack October 19, 2008, 6:00pm 6

B.F. Goodrich makes the KO radial, which is probably just about the most aggressive tread you can get in a tire that’s still an on-road all-terrain tire that drives well on paved roads and has fairly good tread life. It’s available in pretty much every SUV tire size. They’re also a triple-ply tire so they’re pretty good about resisting punctures.

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