All-Terrain Tires
The definitions of All-Terrain / Mud-Terrain (AT / MT, respectively) came to us from North America, where wet soil in mountainous terrain mixed with stones, etc., is considered to be serious off-road. Let's look at what is called a "universal" and what is a "mud" tread.
Let's start with AT class rubber - All-Terrain - which means "all-terrain."
Typically, a variety of the best all-terrain tires models are sold under the All-Terrain definition, from Hankook AT to GoodYear Wrangler Duratrac. The first is a more developed highway rubber, and the second is closer in properties to "mud" tires.
The most popular model in Ukraine is the BFGoodrich All-Terrain model, and with the advent of the KO2 model with more developed side blocks, many began to perceive it as more universal.
The mistake of many owners of SUVs is that they too believe in their strengths, and even worse - in the possibility of "magic four-wheel drive." Less likely is the belief in stories that someone on the AT-shka depicted the owners of the Simex and did not experience difficulties.
Do you believe that yourself? Then the question is, why does a jeep on 30 MT class tires go where another car drags itself on a winch on 35 AT buses?
Let's be realistic - only an experienced driver will be able to ride All-Terrain tires on serious off-road conditions, but he will also experience difficulties depending on conditions and ground. Tires simply get wet and lose all their properties.However, AT class tires are indeed relatively universal for SUVs, but with great limitations.
This implies that you can ride them everywhere, but any step should be deliberate and balanced. It has rained, and you are going to ride on a timber truck? Hmm ... check the winch, you need it!
Let's start with AT class rubber - All-Terrain - which means "all-terrain."
Typically, a variety of the best all-terrain tires models are sold under the All-Terrain definition, from Hankook AT to GoodYear Wrangler Duratrac. The first is a more developed highway rubber, and the second is closer in properties to "mud" tires.
The most popular model in Ukraine is the BFGoodrich All-Terrain model, and with the advent of the KO2 model with more developed side blocks, many began to perceive it as more universal.
The mistake of many owners of SUVs is that they too believe in their strengths, and even worse - in the possibility of "magic four-wheel drive." Less likely is the belief in stories that someone on the AT-shka depicted the owners of the Simex and did not experience difficulties.
Do you believe that yourself? Then the question is, why does a jeep on 30 MT class tires go where another car drags itself on a winch on 35 AT buses?
Let's be realistic - only an experienced driver will be able to ride All-Terrain tires on serious off-road conditions, but he will also experience difficulties depending on conditions and ground. Tires simply get wet and lose all their properties.However, AT class tires are indeed relatively universal for SUVs, but with great limitations.
This implies that you can ride them everywhere, but any step should be deliberate and balanced. It has rained, and you are going to ride on a timber truck? Hmm ... check the winch, you need it!
Mud-Terrain Tires
With mud tires - even bigger misunderstandings. We have developed that it is on these tires that most trained crooks ride. It all started again with the advent and availability of the BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain KM1 tires.
There are many options for MT class tires, but all this is now, and once the BFGs were a jeep's dream and the choice was very small.
Drivers who switched from the BFG Mud-Terrain KM1 model to the KM2 model complained that the new model became less off-road, however, they estimated that it became less noisy and the behavior on hard soils changed for the better.
This, by the way, is a key point in determining the purpose of MT tires.
Let's take a classic example of why owners of serious SUVs and lovers of serious offroad riding choose MT tires. On the same BFG MT you can comfortably get to the exit from the asphalt, and then vent and ride along the “shit”.
Most likely, a winch will still be needed, but you can drive on such tires much further, unless, of course, you try to drive along the muddy clay, where the MT-cabinet is washed off just as quickly
Why not put Simex, for example !? Because on Simaki it will not work out on the asphalt as comfortably as on MT-shahs. At a speed of 120, if you accelerate to it, the noise from the Simex will be similar to the sound of a flying fighter, and the sensations of vibrations are abruptly more expensive than the most expensive vibrator.