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I need a new set of tires. The ones I have, Mud King, just aren't holding up for what I will be doing to them. Just from normal use and only one trip to an off road park one tire is destroyed. They are 35x12.5r15. I want to keep the same size.
I can use my discount through work for BFGoodrich but want some opinions on others.

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Bfg km2's. If you don't encounter much snow these tires would be the best for whatever you do!!! In my opinion atleast.
 

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Price wise, the km2 is what I might get. My second choice is the MTR kevlar.

Yes we get snow here along with a lot of ice. I would like to get some BFG a/t for just winter use around here.

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My BFG KM1s went to hell rather quick. I've seen mixed reviews about the KM2s and severe tread chunking (what happened to my KM1s), however I got a buddy running the KM2s on his Jeep and his seem to be holding up better then my KM1s did.
I don't care much for the KM2's appearance now though (I think they messed with a good thing, they only needed to make the rubber compound more chunk-resistant). I went with the Goodyear MT/R-Ks and couldn't be happier.
 

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If I didn't work for BFGoodrich and get a nice discount from them, then I would definitely get the MTR kevlars
 

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I've got a friend running KM2's on his full size and he really likes them.
 

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My BFG KM1s went to hell rather quick. I've seen mixed reviews about the KM2s and severe tread chunking (what happened to my KM1s), however I got a buddy running the KM2s on his Jeep and his seem to be holding up better then my KM1s did.
I don't care much for the KM2's appearance now though (I think they messed with a good thing, they only needed to make the rubber compound more chunk-resistant). I went with the Goodyear MT/R-Ks and couldn't be happier.
My cousin in law has Goodyears on his 2500 Chevy pickup, gravel has pretty well mangled them IMO.
 

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What about the ProComp extreme MT? I found a set on CL but they are 33's on 18" rims though. Good price with rims that came off a ZJ.

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The MT/R-Kevlar??
Yup, he does drive quite a bit of gravel too though. I have never seen a set of tires shredded that bad though, even his old truck still sporting the old pattern look better.
 

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I have KM2's on my Super Duty. I had KM1's on it before these, and the KM2s are a vast improvement over the KM1's. I have yet to have them in the snow, but they do very well in the muck and on road under my diesel.
 

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