Duratracs for daily use and in the rocks?

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dentedvw

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Bountiful, UT
I have one vehicle with four wheels, the Wrangler. I need new tires soon, and have found some lightly used 33" Duratracs on 15" rims for $800, but I am wondering if they are going to be the right tire for use in Utah. I don't mind getting noisy mud tires as long as they work well off road, but I don't want mild AT tires that don't work worth a darn in the rocks. :rofl:
Can anyone weigh in on whether the tires are tough enough for use in Utah? It seems that they are primarily marketed for work trucks, but they seem to find a home on the occasional wheeling vehicle.

The tires in question:
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My other idea is to buy another set of the treadwright retreads, I have had two sets in the past and they worked well enough, but I haven't used them in rocks.

The vehicle is an average Rubicon, fwiw. My budget is as little as possible, as most everything I will make in the next few months will be used to move and make things ready to move to SLC. House, Jeep, motorcycles, bus.

Thoughts?
 
I'm running a set of Duratracks on my Daily driver (02 tacoma), in which I've also take it off road, although nothing too major (fins in moab, forest lake, rock garden in mineral basin, rattlesnake, etc).

As far as driving tires, they are quite a bit more quiet than my previous set of tires (Toyo MT). They are supposed to do fantastic in the snow and I didn't have any complaints this last winter. They seem to do ok in the mud, although you do have to spin them once in a while to clear them out. They definately do chuck large pieces of mud/snow while driving.

The one major downfall about them is the sidewall. It really isn't the thickest and I've punchered it on one of tires already. If you do go with these, I'd recommend not airing down much because of this. I really haven't run into anything I really needed to air down to on any of the trails above though, but I'm only running 265/75R16 (31"-32") on that truck, so cant really take the hardest lines all the time either.

As far as how they last on the road for driving, I've only had them for about 5000 miles or so, but they still seem like new.
 
I have run Duratracs (315/70/17) for the last year on my '08 Rubicon Unlimited. Overall, I am very happy with them. They are excellent on snow, sand, and slickrock. I avoid mud like the plague, but those few times it was unavoidable they performed well. I've put about 18,000 mi. on them, rotated 3 times, and they appear to be good for another 18,000 before I'll think of replacements. The sidewalls are flexy and the tread is sticky. I only air them down to 16 psi for rocks, and they flex very well. So far, no chunking or failures. I've done some pretty steep smooth faces on the St. George trails regularly, and they have not had life too easy. For a daily driver and all around tire, I think they've performed very well. I may be replacing them with the same tire... although I always want to broaden my experience... so I may try another. Who knows!
 
If only you had posted a few days earlier, I might have been swayed. :0)

I ordered a set of five retreads for a bit under $800 from Treadwright. The last two sets of them I had worked great, so they were a frontrunner in my book. Still, having those aluminum wheels would have been nice, they were my favorite style.

Heh!

Next time maybe.
 
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