Well I've had my Trxus 31x10.5x15's for a couple of weeks now. I was going to wait a little longer before I posted anything about them because I still have an issue with one of my tires... I don't know if I have just a flat spot or the tread is running untrue. I know that I vibrate pretty bad at times. After a lot of trial and error mounting and balancing, my friend at the tire shop and I determined that it was the tire and he has ordered a replacement. The tire in question has a different sound than the others. We tried re-mounting and balancing, moving the wheel etc.
I don't want to sound like I'm flaming Interco at all, I think I just happened to get a tire that the tread doesn't run true to the center of the tire. You can visually see it as it's being balanced. The rest of the tires sounded good and kept their balance well. (we checked that too). I feel this is a minor problem and as long as I can get the tire replaced, I'll be happy with my purchase.

I've been out in the mud three times since I got them, I think they kick ass in the soup. I went to the proving grounds because I knew I could go to the muck pit and it would still be pretty wet. We haven't had too much rain here. Anyway, I had a blast in the muck pit! I think I can say that the Trxus will be a great tire for the money with good properties for both on and off-road.

As far as noise, well it is a MT. My neighbor has 33" BFG/MT's. In his opinion, he says they are a lot quieter than his tires. He also says that it will be interesting to see how they sound as they start to wear. he love the tread pattern, especially the siping and the center groove in the tread. he says that will make it where I will be able to spin the mud away. I trust his opinion totally, He has never owned another vehicle other than a 4WD besides his motorcycles. He tried to sway me to buy the BFG's but I couldn't find them any cheaper than about $625.00. I ended up paying around $500.00 for the Trxus after all was said and done.

I wish I had some better photo's of our romp in the muck, my photographer wasted all the pic's we had left in about the first twenty minutes. I'm going to buy a digital camera soon and that should fix that.

another,

The proving grounds were bone dry, I found the only muck holes and tried to make the best of them!

After I was finished going through the muckpit, notice how the tread seems to be clear of most of the mud.

did you blast through this one or crawl?

Thanks for the post. If you don't mind I would like to add it to the xterra4x4.com mods list. I'll do all the formatting etc.

4-wheel parts did a terrible balance job on my SSR's. After getting nowhere with that shop I took my tires to Les Shuab and they were able to get them all balanced to "reasonable" for a MT.

From talking with the guys they mentioned being able to do a patch balance where they balance the tire before mounting it using some sort of material on the inside of the tire. After that they use normal weights to take care of any remaining inbalance.

I'm curious to hear what Interco does with your tire. One of the local 4-wheeling mail lists was having difficulty getting Interco to replace a bad tire.

No, that last hole if you notice the mud is the consistancy of peanut butter, there is a pretty steep berm on the other side so I went pretty slow to keep from plowing my frontend into it. The mud you see slinging is me climbing up and out of the hole. the mud is about mid axle deep. It looks like I'm going fast I guess because the mud is so thick and gooey it stands for a few seconds.

Can you also post a picture of the tread pattern? I think I've seen it before but don't have the link.

yeah, I think that my friend who owns the tire place, has exausted all his resources in trying to get this one tire inparticular right. I don't know how but he said I should have the new one by Monday. Thanks for forwarding my post to the 4x4.com_mods list. I'm buying a new digital camera real soon, for the purpose of getting the coolest off-roading pics I can!

Sure Schlud, I'll look around and see if I can find a good one if not, give me a couple of days and i will get one.

P.S. who can host my pics now that photopoint has become greedy?

Was the mud like this?

This stuff was nasty.

http://xterra4x4.com/Trips/Manastash/rimrock/schludmud.jpg

Kinda, I think my goo was just a little more wet, not to mention that I ran through it many times in an attempt to get it stuck. No luck. that last picture was the only time I had to get into 4WD to get over the berm

but not a real good view of the tread

heheh I would have been stuck as soon as the rear got in it. Here is to hoping Schuab gets them in the system quickly :evillaugh

GOOD GOD YOU GUYS!! It's Les Schwab!! Not shoo-ab :)

If you have an Americas Tire/Discount store ( www.tires.com ) in your area, I would go to them before Schwab... better prices and the service is the same if not better.

Nope, no Americas Tire/Discount here. Just Schwab.

In that pic you posted, did your SSR's actualy clog, or did they clear once they were rolling again?

I haven't gotten my SSR's to really clog yet, they have packed up a few times but have cleared by themselves once I hit to gas.

From what I understand it's fairly common for Swampers to have defects from the factory...fortunately for me I've been lucky, my SSR's were balanced well from the get-go and I haven't had any real vibration/shimmy w/ them at speed.

Let us know if your opinion changes any once you get your new tire.

they were cleaning everytime he hit the gas HUGE chunks of mud flying off

Originally posted by Antitree_hugger
they were cleaning everytime he hit the gas HUGE chunks of mud flying off

Heh, heh.

Ben should know. I fired about 20 rounds of 2" mud-lugs at him in one area. :silly:

Originally posted by Mosi
If you have an Americas Tire/Discount store ( www.tires.com ) in your area, I would go to them before Schwab... better prices and the service is the same if not better.

I ordered a set of Nitto N460 Touring tires for my Civic from them. Great price and to my door in 2 days flat. I would purchase from them again.

Here you go Schlud, I got some better pics with my new Olympus camedia c-3000 zoom baby!!!

please forgive me I had to try it out....

Well, I got a call yesterday from my tire friend. He told me he had my replacement tire and I should promptly leave work and report to his shop so he could put it on.

(my boss knew that was killing me so he let me split)

First off, I could tell when the bad tire was on the truck it had a audible pulsating whir. We pulled the tire off the truck, and put it on the balancer. Maybe it was me, but I could see the tread wasn't running true. Some folks may think that is BS but I think if the tread deviates too far from center, it will have the propensity to wobble. Anyway, bad tire gone... new tire on, and I'm pleased to report that the wobble has been exorcized from my machine. No wobble, no weird sound. Just quality riding.

Like I said, I in no way wanted to flame a reputable tire company like Interco. I do think that one may have slipped the QC dept. That happens at times. The important thing to remember is that someone somewhere wanted to please me (the customer) and I'm satisfied that my problem was corrected in a timely manner.

They work great in the mud too! :D

Glad to hear you got the problem solved!
I'd really like to ride with someone who has the TrXus's to compare just how loud they are vs. my SSR's, and also to compare them directly against the BFG MT's (probably their closest direct competitor I'd guess...)

With all that siping I bet they'll be the best of the bunch in light snow and rain! The SSR's are siped but only in the center lugs...

Come on down Gothamist, your welcome at our campfire anytime bro...

My neighbor and I went for a ride, he has 33"MT's on his Toyota. He thinks that the Trxus tires are much quieter than his MT's. Don't know how they will wear compared to BFG's, I'm pretty good about rotating my tires every other oil change. I also have a lifetime alignment from firestone of all people. (the technician has a Pathy w/BFG MT's) I payed $99.00 and it's good for as many times as I need it for as long as I own the truck. I have the feeling I'll be using that as much as possible!!

I sure wish it would rain so I can have some muck to slop around in!

:D

Just a FYI, Interco recommends only rotating your tires front to back.

I will be getting my SSR's fully siped when I buy them, the guy with the Pathy at the Nissanet run had his muds siped for $5 a tire...something others might want to look into as well if you want better rain/snow performance.

How did that guy's tires hold up? I'm actually glad my SSR's aren't fully siped just because I'm afraid if the outer lugs were siped they would chunk easier...definitely be interested to see how yours do once you get them, though...maybe next winter, if your have held up okay, I could look into siping mine as well.

Waitaminute, the way these things wear...next winter I could look into siping my next set. :D

The truck is not his daily driver anymore..just his trail truck and there was no chunking whatsoever. He was worried about that too when he bought them but Discount Tire did the siping for him and said as long as it is done right you will not have chunks of tire flying off.

I saw a Jeep at Mt. Rainier today with large TSL's. They were siped across all the chevrons.

Just a look, but the tires seemed like they would get great traction over the solid lugs I usually see.

So gothamist, you rode in mine, with the Trxus, what do you think they sound like?

You probably forgot that you were riding on them as they are so friggin quiet.

Gotta call tires international today about my side slice..

I'd say your tires are about half as loud, maybe less, than my SSR's. Especially noticeable that time you rolled the window down--all I hear is tire when I do that, with your TrXus's, all I could really hear was the wind.

I still love my SSR's, but then again I swapped my AT's on since I won't be wheeling for another month or so (got some mods to take care of, and some fixing-the-truck.) If I had TrXus tires swapping wouldn't even be a possility, they seem much more street friendly. I wonder how well they'll wear--if they can match the wear of something like BFG AT's or MT's, they'll definitely be a major contender. (i.e. it would be great to see 45K out of them, not 30K like other Swampers.)

And that sidewall tread sure does kick ass.

Originally posted by Matt Peckham

Gotta call tires international today about my side slice..



Matt we don't need to hear about the slice you are getting on the side, ok? :D

Here is a good review on the TrXus:

http://www.gis.net/~zacharer/jeep/reviews/trxusreview.html