Ya I do like the LTBs but they are bias ply. I'll look for a bfg in a 34-10. I think they are only avail in a 33 though.

Goodyear Duratracs review well from what I've seen, but I'm not sure if they're in the size you're looking for.


-- Edited by ChevelleSSLS6 on Sunday 21st of February 2010 11:27:49 PM

Any specific reason you only want a 10.5" wide tire? Assumption is to save on gas?

I don't feel that a skinny tire on a lifted XJ is the solution to saving on gas. It has way to many downfalls. The major one is that a lifted XJ needs to have a wider stance to feel "safe" to me on the road, and more stable on the trails. The only way to get the wider stance is to use a different offset rims. To get it to sit wider your using a very low offset rim and will shorten the life of other parts (ball joints/wheel bearings).

If your willing to spend the $$ on new tires to just get better gas mileage, why not spend that money on gears instead that will help more in the long run?

What that being said,

Interco SS-M16 available in 33x10.5
Interco TSL Radial available in 33x10.5
Interco TSL Thornbird available in 33x10.5
Interco SSR available in 35x10.5
Interco Narrow TSL available in 34x9.5
Interco LTB available in 34x10.5
BFG MT KM1 is available in 33x10.5 (no longer made, so need to find it on the shelf somewhere).
BFG MT KM2 available in 33x10.5
BFG TA KO available in 33x10.5

All the above are a 15" rim. I'm sure there are more but those are the one's we stock/sell so I know of them off the top of my head.

I have a 10.5 inch wide 31 and it feels very safe to me. I have a 4.5 inch offset and it pretty much puts the tire right at the lip of the flare. Unless you are doing some hardcore mud running or need a wider tire for rock crawling a 10.5 inch tire is just fine. Also the 10.5 wide is measured different from mfg to mfg. For instance a 235 Michelin is wider than a 235 Dayton Quadra. The Michelin measures at the tread width while the cheapy Dayton like to measure at the radial bulge in the sidewall. I actually worked at a tire store a long time ago and one day we lined up our cheapest tires and most expensive ones all were same aize in numbers but were very different is tread width. My tires have tread on the sidewall so when you air them down they have more width. probably closer to a 12.5 or so. Here is a pic of me at full stuff in front with full dangle in rear with 31x10.50-15 Goodyear MT-R with Kevlar. I was not a goodyear fan but these tires are awesome.

The tread pattern is asemetrical to help with tread wear and noise. The tread blocks are not the same size they go from larger to smaller and back to large again thus canceling out any harmonic frequency cause by larger tread blocks. :)These make a ton less noise than my old BFG mud terrains and yeah I still listen to CD's too and have no skip problems.

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I was actually mad when I got my new Squad.  It has CD player.  My old one was a tape deck.  Loved to plug that thing into the computer and listen to music on Pandora.com.  I only listen to CD's too.

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When my dad got his 1999 Cadillac back when it was new he was p/o'd because it had no tape deck and so he had to special order a tape deck for it. When he bought his 2008 Caddy it only came with a CD player so he was kind of mad. All of us kids went out and joined BMG CD club and got him somethig like 60 CDs for Christmas one year. Its funny because I think we all spent $30 each because we all got 10 for a penny and had to buy only two at the regular price.  >>>>>>OOPS  Sorry for the hijacked thread.