egarant wrote:
It's finally time to replace my GY Wrangler's with Kevlar that have almost 40K on them, all of them with the TC on them with a full 14K load.
I think they have been an outstanding highway tire, I've hit many a serious pothole crossing the US and never had any tire issues.
I am not looking for an even more aggressive off-road tread pattern.
Along those lines I have narrowed it down to TWO tires:
Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac
Duratrac
and the Yokohama Geolander M/T G003
Yokohama Geolander
There is a lot of data on the Duratrac's as they have been around for awhile and they do have the snowflake symbol for added snow traction ability.
The Geolander's on the other hand only came out last year so there is no long term data as of yet.
It's a long shot, but anyone have the Geolander MT G003's on their rig?
The Duratracs are noisier, provide a much sloppier ride (due to huge unsupported tread blocks), and wear faster (again, probably largely due to tread squirm) than the Wrangler All-Terrain Adventure with Kevlar tires. The Duratracs have slightly better traction in slush or mud (they can clear the tread better), but are worse in snow and rain.
If I could only choose one of the two, I'd go with the All-Terrain Adventure tires unless I was to be regularly driving in the aforementioned slushy or muddy conditions. As it is, I have two sets of rims and swap the two types of tires out depending on where I'm going to be going.
BTW, I don't know what size tires you are running, but some sizes of the All-Terrain Adventure with Kevlar - like their predecessor, the Goodyear ProGrade SilentArmor - do have the mountain/snowflake symbol. Unfortunately GY doesn't bother to provide good information on this on their website and you have to call to find out if your size is rated as such.
