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Old 12-24-2005, 11:50 AM
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Re: Re: Bfg Land Terrain

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Originally Posted by wolfox
I got mine fitted at Walmart. It took me having to go to another shop down the road to re-balance the tires to get it rolling smooth though. The clowns at Wallyworld couldn't balance thier own checkbook, let alone SUV tires. But so far, even in the snow we had that stuck many cars and trucks and saw others in the ditch, I was trucking along happily in 2-wheel modes. I only engaged the 4x4 when I had to climb some of the steeper hills in the area. On my Land Terrain tires, she tracked good. They are a quiet tire too, they do not make any noise going down the road or highway unles they get a little low. Try them, and at worse, work the warranty that Walmart puts on them to get you something more suitable. However, I am hard pressed to find much of a better tire in my experience for the price of $80 mounted, balanced, lifetime road hazard warantee per wheel.

Next time though, I want to try the BFG All terrain 7-ply LTs, but I am going to go to a specialty shop. Walmart tire Nazis would not mount truck tires on my rig because the door pillar specified "P" rated radials - Passenger tires. The BFG Land Terrains are a 3 or 4-ply tires, I am not certain on that though - and would be durable enough for light, off-road duty. I would not use them for rock crawling or sandy terrain where one would be best to deflate and run on low tires. The lighter, thinner side-wall construction and the slightly thinner bias plies *will not* stand up to that sort of use for long. For that sort of action, buy the LTs and skip over the "P" rated passenger radial ply tires.
That is exactly why I run the 30 X 9.5 x 15 BFG All Terrains LT's on both my Blazer and my S-10. Sometimes in really soft, deep sand I air down to as low as 10 psi and still run short distances on pavement. Never had a problem with the three sets I have owned. Also get between 70,000 and 80,000 miles per set.
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