by PhillipM » Tue Nov 28, 2017 4:08 pm
IonMan wrote:
If anyone out there has experience of the Mud tyres on the road or - preferably - experience of different types of tyres on the road, I'd really appreciate your thoughts!
They're very noisy at any speed over about 20-30mph, they vibrate at high speeds as the tread blocks start to move around, and they're awful come winter when you're braking in cold, wet conditions, much worse than an A/T or road tyre, it's like trying to stop on grease.
If you have any concrete roads near you instead of tarmac, all that +50%.
Come summer when the compound has actually got some grip due to no longer being harder than steel from the cold weather, the tread blocks will move around, and the tyre will generate a lot of heat, to the point where the surface goes back greasy because the rubber just melts, and the tyre wear shoots through the roof - I've run geolander pattern tyres at Oulton (albeit a bit heavier car) and even doing just short 5-6 laps stints, had to switch to rally tyres, as after a little longer stint, we parked up and the tyres got a big flat spot on the bottom as the tread rubber spread out and then cooled.
Saying that, right up until the surface actually melts, you can get quite a lot of grip out of a hot sticky M/T even if the tyre blocks are twisting so far that you're doing 4-wheel drifts at 20%+ slip angles to get it
If you want the off road look, and a bit of capability, I would say put an all season or maybe a gravel rally tyre on it for a daily. It'll still move around, but it'll be a lot better in the cold, wet conditions.
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If anyone out there has experience of the Mud tyres on the road or - preferably - experience of different types of tyres on the road, I'd really appreciate your thoughts!
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They're very noisy at any speed over about 20-30mph, they vibrate at high speeds as the tread blocks start to move around, and they're awful come winter when you're braking in cold, wet conditions, much worse than an A/T or road tyre, it's like trying to stop on grease.
If you have any concrete roads near you instead of tarmac, all that +50%.
Come summer when the compound has actually got some grip due to no longer being harder than steel from the cold weather, the tread blocks will move around, and the tyre will generate a lot of heat, to the point where the surface goes back greasy because the rubber just melts, and the tyre wear shoots through the roof - I've run geolander pattern tyres at Oulton (albeit a bit heavier car) and even doing just short 5-6 laps stints, had to switch to rally tyres, as after a little longer stint, we parked up and the tyres got a big flat spot on the bottom as the tread rubber spread out and then cooled.
Saying that, right up until the surface actually melts, you can get quite a lot of grip out of a hot sticky M/T even if the tyre blocks are twisting so far that you're doing 4-wheel drifts at 20%+ slip angles to get it :D
If you want the off road look, and a bit of capability, I would say put an all season or maybe a gravel rally tyre on it for a daily. It'll still move around, but it'll be a lot better in the cold, wet conditions.