Re: Best "tough looking" tires for highway
 

"Phinz" <Phinzzzz@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<1bafab347988399967bb2a26a468e704@news.terane ws.com>...
> My 2002 Saharas factory tires are getting ready to be replaced soon, and I
> want to get some "tougher" loking tires. I use this jeep as my primary
> vehicle so It gets more highway time than tril time. Truth is that I dont
> usually off-road as much as I used to with the kids now, and when I do, its
Because I haul kids I put Michilin APT on my 99 TJ. It has twice been
caught in turd-floating, frog-strangeling torrential downpours -
driving along fine at 60 to 65 mph in light rain and then POW, can't
see the end of the the hood. Both times I was hauling kids and glad I
had good tires.

They work well offroad. I went with the 235's and the extra height is
nice. I put 50 miles a day freeway/big city commute and am well
satisfied. Too bad you only get them at NTB, but they look nice and
hold the road in the rain.

Where do you live and what do you do off road? I live in Houston. We
get tropical nightmares all the time. I do mud, hills, and log
hopping mostly. That and bolting from the freeway to the feeder to
dodge traffic jams... Not much rock crawling.

Re: Best "tough looking" tires for highway
 

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 03:13:22 UTC jcwelch@hal-pc.org (John Welch) wrote:

> "Phinz" <Phinzzzz@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<1bafab347988399967bb2a26a468e704@news.terane ws.com>...
> > My 2002 Saharas factory tires are getting ready to be replaced soon, and I
> > want to get some "tougher" loking tires. I use this jeep as my primary
> > vehicle so It gets more highway time than tril time. Truth is that I dont
> > usually off-road as much as I used to with the kids now, and when I do, its
> Because I haul kids I put Michilin APT on my 99 TJ. It has twice been
> caught in turd-floating, frog-strangeling torrential downpours -
> driving along fine at 60 to 65 mph in light rain and then POW, can't
> see the end of the the hood. Both times I was hauling kids and glad I
> had good tires.
>
> They work well offroad. I went with the 235's and the extra height is
> nice. I put 50 miles a day freeway/big city commute and am well
> satisfied. Too bad you only get them at NTB, but they look nice and
> hold the road in the rain.
>
> Where do you live and what do you do off road? I live in Houston. We
> get tropical nightmares all the time. I do mud, hills, and log
> hopping mostly. That and bolting from the freeway to the feeder to
> dodge traffic jams... Not much rock crawling.

I was pretty skeptical about wet road performance of the BFG AT until
I hit a thunderstorm north of Amarillo not long after put them on.
It was raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock with serveral inches
of water across the road when I ran into it (fat dumb and happy) at
about 70-75. Never a wiggle out of the beast and I was feeling the
brakes for all I could get out of them since that !@#$% MJ (XJ
probably does it too) wants to make sure the windshield is clean if
you hit any reasonably deep water going just a tad too fast. After
slowing down, I worked it out a bit and was really impressed at how
that AT handled the water.

--
Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>

Re: Best "tough looking" tires for highway
 

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 03:13:22 UTC jcwelch@hal-pc.org (John Welch) wrote:

> "Phinz" <Phinzzzz@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<1bafab347988399967bb2a26a468e704@news.terane ws.com>...
> > My 2002 Saharas factory tires are getting ready to be replaced soon, and I
> > want to get some "tougher" loking tires. I use this jeep as my primary
> > vehicle so It gets more highway time than tril time. Truth is that I dont
> > usually off-road as much as I used to with the kids now, and when I do, its
> Because I haul kids I put Michilin APT on my 99 TJ. It has twice been
> caught in turd-floating, frog-strangeling torrential downpours -
> driving along fine at 60 to 65 mph in light rain and then POW, can't
> see the end of the the hood. Both times I was hauling kids and glad I
> had good tires.
>
> They work well offroad. I went with the 235's and the extra height is
> nice. I put 50 miles a day freeway/big city commute and am well
> satisfied. Too bad you only get them at NTB, but they look nice and
> hold the road in the rain.
>
> Where do you live and what do you do off road? I live in Houston. We
> get tropical nightmares all the time. I do mud, hills, and log
> hopping mostly. That and bolting from the freeway to the feeder to
> dodge traffic jams... Not much rock crawling.

I was pretty skeptical about wet road performance of the BFG AT until
I hit a thunderstorm north of Amarillo not long after put them on.
It was raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock with serveral inches
of water across the road when I ran into it (fat dumb and happy) at
about 70-75. Never a wiggle out of the beast and I was feeling the
brakes for all I could get out of them since that !@#$% MJ (XJ
probably does it too) wants to make sure the windshield is clean if
you hit any reasonably deep water going just a tad too fast. After
slowing down, I worked it out a bit and was really impressed at how
that AT handled the water.

--
Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>

Re: Best "tough looking" tires for highway
 

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 03:13:22 UTC jcwelch@hal-pc.org (John Welch) wrote:

> "Phinz" <Phinzzzz@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<1bafab347988399967bb2a26a468e704@news.terane ws.com>...
> > My 2002 Saharas factory tires are getting ready to be replaced soon, and I
> > want to get some "tougher" loking tires. I use this jeep as my primary
> > vehicle so It gets more highway time than tril time. Truth is that I dont
> > usually off-road as much as I used to with the kids now, and when I do, its
> Because I haul kids I put Michilin APT on my 99 TJ. It has twice been
> caught in turd-floating, frog-strangeling torrential downpours -
> driving along fine at 60 to 65 mph in light rain and then POW, can't
> see the end of the the hood. Both times I was hauling kids and glad I
> had good tires.
>
> They work well offroad. I went with the 235's and the extra height is
> nice. I put 50 miles a day freeway/big city commute and am well
> satisfied. Too bad you only get them at NTB, but they look nice and
> hold the road in the rain.
>
> Where do you live and what do you do off road? I live in Houston. We
> get tropical nightmares all the time. I do mud, hills, and log
> hopping mostly. That and bolting from the freeway to the feeder to
> dodge traffic jams... Not much rock crawling.

I was pretty skeptical about wet road performance of the BFG AT until
I hit a thunderstorm north of Amarillo not long after put them on.
It was raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock with serveral inches
of water across the road when I ran into it (fat dumb and happy) at
about 70-75. Never a wiggle out of the beast and I was feeling the
brakes for all I could get out of them since that !@#$% MJ (XJ
probably does it too) wants to make sure the windshield is clean if
you hit any reasonably deep water going just a tad too fast. After
slowing down, I worked it out a bit and was really impressed at how
that AT handled the water.

--
Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>

Re: Best "tough looking" tires for highway
 

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 03:13:22 UTC jcwelch@hal-pc.org (John Welch) wrote:

> "Phinz" <Phinzzzz@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<1bafab347988399967bb2a26a468e704@news.terane ws.com>...
> > My 2002 Saharas factory tires are getting ready to be replaced soon, and I
> > want to get some "tougher" loking tires. I use this jeep as my primary
> > vehicle so It gets more highway time than tril time. Truth is that I dont
> > usually off-road as much as I used to with the kids now, and when I do, its
> Because I haul kids I put Michilin APT on my 99 TJ. It has twice been
> caught in turd-floating, frog-strangeling torrential downpours -
> driving along fine at 60 to 65 mph in light rain and then POW, can't
> see the end of the the hood. Both times I was hauling kids and glad I
> had good tires.
>
> They work well offroad. I went with the 235's and the extra height is
> nice. I put 50 miles a day freeway/big city commute and am well
> satisfied. Too bad you only get them at NTB, but they look nice and
> hold the road in the rain.
>
> Where do you live and what do you do off road? I live in Houston. We
> get tropical nightmares all the time. I do mud, hills, and log
> hopping mostly. That and bolting from the freeway to the feeder to
> dodge traffic jams... Not much rock crawling.

I was pretty skeptical about wet road performance of the BFG AT until
I hit a thunderstorm north of Amarillo not long after put them on.
It was raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock with serveral inches
of water across the road when I ran into it (fat dumb and happy) at
about 70-75. Never a wiggle out of the beast and I was feeling the
brakes for all I could get out of them since that !@#$% MJ (XJ
probably does it too) wants to make sure the windshield is clean if
you hit any reasonably deep water going just a tad too fast. After
slowing down, I worked it out a bit and was really impressed at how
that AT handled the water.

--
Will Honea <whonea@codenet.net>