Great article that gives you a basic overview of a good portion of the tire selection out there. Would love to see something like this on here with some more details, specifically weight!
http://www.fourwheeler.com/techartic...e/viewall.html
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03-27-2012, 10:08 PM #1Senior JK Freak
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Four Wheeler - Massive Tire Guide
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03-27-2012, 10:15 PM #2Super JK Freak
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Great post!
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03-27-2012, 11:30 PM #3Freaking JK Guru
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Great thread. It gives me an Idea. I printed it to a PDF for future reference. Thanks for posting!
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03-28-2012, 06:55 AM #4Senior JK Freak
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i like it, but it left out the hankook dynapro!
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03-28-2012, 07:12 AM #5Freak of Knowledge
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....and mickey baja claws! what gives?
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03-28-2012, 04:12 PM #6Freaking JK Guru
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This report left out several popular tires including those listed above and...
- Nitto Terra Grappler
- Cooper Discovery STT
- Others?
No matter. The list of new tires is never ending and any report like this will always leave something out. But one has to wonder how all this fits together to determine the best overall product available for the items considered in the report. Well, kids I've done you all a HUGE favor. I compiled the list of tires and their relative ratings in the report. I then analyzed and ranked the tires based upon their ratings. In this case each condition was weighted the same. I didn't stop there though. No sir. I then chose each conditions as a key and then rated each tire against that key and the other secondary conditions. For example. For the street weighted key, I weighted the street condition (Wstreet) at 75% while each of the other conditions were weighted at 5%. For this scenario a given owner anticipates driving 75% of the time on the street. In doing this an individual can evaluate a given tire based upon the principal intended usage of that tire. For the street example, the idea is to allow someone who will target a primary condition such as street and allow them to look at the best overall tire based upon the fact that it is going to be a really good tire for street usage. According the the analysis, the best overall tire for the weighted street condition would be the Goodyear Silent Armor. I then went one step further and analyzed all the rankings and determined the overall best tire given all the conditions, and the reports ranking. I have the tires sorted by this overall ranking from 1 to 33. According to this analysis, the best overall tire is...The Goodyear MT/R with Kevlar. Have a look at the image below and see where your tire ranks. If your tire isn't on there, I'm sorry, it wasn't on the report. If the report is ever expanded to include other tires, then I'll see if I can't update the chart.
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03-28-2012, 04:43 PM #7Senior JK Freak
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WOW..... look at you busting out the Science!! Would it be possible to host that image somewhere so we can open it and see it at full size? ......WOW...awesome work!
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03-28-2012, 04:50 PM #8Banned
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Not sure where they got their info but my KM2's handled great on ice this winter. Never slid once
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03-28-2012, 04:50 PM #9Senior JK Freak
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heh I had been looking over the same thing. the problem with their rating system is no real bias towards what is bad but usuable. for instance, a number of the tires ranked 1 on ice, but only a few actually had any mention on how terrible they handled on the ice. in the same vein, a number of the ATs scored well overall, with ratings of 2 on the mud, but then reading the actual review would reveal the tire was actually fairly weak over any type of terrain. the goodyear MT/r was the tire I was gunning for, and this article re-affirm my desire to get a set, but the ranking system vs the actual review seems a bit off
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03-28-2012, 05:14 PM #10Freaking JK Guru
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Sure. I'll knock that out tomorrow.
Originally Posted by Bustedujoint
Originally Posted by hagausaf
I don't know where or how they arrived at their ratings. I think there are other important factors missing from their report too like weight, cost, and life expectancy. I would also like to see road noise factored into the mix somehow. Originally Posted by trialbysneck
I just analyzed what they provided. I did the analysis to try and quantitatively establish which tires would be better than others given certain criteria. All too often I hear people claiming their tire is the best. With this I figure I have some analytical basis to refute/affirm claims.
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