Poped a tire today and it is time for new. I was thinking of Kevlar any input I live in AZ and rock crawling is big and some times sharp. I know there is no sure thing but I also know kevlar is tough but really heavy.
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- Thread starter Tony Moore
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I will say that the Cooper Discoverer STT tires are amazing for sharp rocks (at least so I hear). I'll wait for others with more experience to chime in.
I'd bet that @Jerry Bransford or @mrblaine would have some good recommendations, primarily because they wheel down there in Johnson Valley where there's lots of rocks!
I'd bet that @Jerry Bransford or @mrblaine would have some good recommendations, primarily because they wheel down there in Johnson Valley where there's lots of rocks!
Kevlar doesn’t add enough weight to be significant. I can say my kevlar reinforced Goodyear MT/Rs are the only tires I've run on my TJs the past 20 years the sharp SOCAL desert rocks have been unable to cut or puncture.
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Jerry I don't have any first hand experience with The GY Kevlar, but the last time I was at Wayne Hardwigs shop he related that last year he took 16 of them to King of the Hammers and only 1 lasted. When I ask what happened he said they were all sidewall failures.
Not sure what to think but enough to give me pause.
If I was running King of the Hammers, I'd probably run the $400 BFG Krawler or similar ungodly strong tire. And the KOH competitors carry spares even of that level of tire. Unless you've been to the KOH and seen it first-hand, you just can't imagine the conditions they have to survive. For us worldly people, the kevlar MT/R from Goodyear will survive anything we'll ever run.Jerry I don't have any first hand experience with The GY Kevlar, but the last time I was at Wayne Hardwigs shop he related that last year he took 16 of them to King of the Hammers and only 1 lasted. When I ask what happened he said they were all sidewall failures.
Not sure what to think but enough to give me pause.
The trails my $230 kevlar MT/Rs have survived damage-free on for over 6 years now are chock-full of big sharp rocks.
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I won't need tires anytime soon but this is good to know. I currently run the non Kevlar MT/R and have side walled two of them. One on a rock in Moab. The other was on a brick that stuck out from a retaining wall IN MY FREAKING DRIVEWAY
X2. My previous tires were the older first-generation non-Kevlar MT/Rs and I managed to slice a big hole in a sidewall on Sledgehammer in Johnson Valley... without a spare. It took 30-40 tire plugs to get that hole plugged enough to hold air and get back to camp where the spare was.
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