Mike,
Over the years, I've always known you as a staunch advocate of thinner
tires. Not sure why I like that but I do:) I'd go with thin tires myself
for a couple of reasons but the sand terrain down here reminds us pretty
quickly that, sometimes, we can dig down all we want and it won't help us a
bit. Heck, in the real sand, you can dig down to the water table somewhere
just past the axles. Haha!
When I was younger, I could usually make a couple of bucks from snowbirds
out on the island who got stuck five feet from the pavement. It was always
the same story. They'd leave a bar on vacation and instead of driving back
out, they'd look at the fluffy white beach sand and think, "These rednecks
don't know how to drive on snow!" After bogging their 2WD S10's down to the
body, they'd look for the guy with the big Jeep and offer some walk-around
money for a tug instead of waiting for cops to ask questions... Hehe.
Drink
"Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:43BBDCBE.37632D81@sympatico.ca...
> We offroad trail run our 88 Cherokee and regularly run for hours on the
> highway in 4x4 and have BFG AT's on our Cherokee (our trip last weekend
> was 5 hours in 4x4 in a snowstorm to get to camp).
>
> Unfortunately for us, we had a chance to swap rims with someone who had
> just as new tires on so we did a direct swap. We ended up going from a
> P225/75 R15 to a P235/75 R15.
>
> Are we ever disappointed with the degradation of the traction! We lost
> very noticeable amounts of start up traction with the wider tire and
> lost about 10 mph of 'safe' control on the highway. It starts to float
> about 10 mph lower with the wider tires on it. It also spins easier in
> mud and sand.
>
> Oh well, live and learn, I won't oversize tires on anything again
> without a lot more thought or at least trying them on someone else's to
> compare.
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
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