Tires for Overlanding: Selecting a Mud Tire

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How to Select a Mud Tire for Overlanding:
A mild mud pattern will serve most travelers, as highway manners are still a consideration.
Select a mud tire with siping on the tread face for improved wet rock and road traction.
A chamfered lug profile will reduce mud retention and improve lug integrity
Shoulder lugs will increase traction in ruts and also reduce sidewall punctures
Look for mud and store ejectors between the side lugs
Favor a taller, narrower tire for muddy conditions
Mud tires also excel in most rocky conditions, due to the mechanical keying between the large lugs and irregularities in the rocks surface
Use a Light Truck tire (LT) with a two or three ply sidewall and a load rating appropriate to your curb weight
Mud tires will have higher road noise than a typical all-terrain due to the lug spacing. This can increase driver fatigue.
Mud tires will typically have longer stopping distances on road, particularly in wet conditions
Mud tires also reduce fuel economy (and ultimately range) due to increased rolling resistance and weight over an all-terrain
Mud tires will have a shorter tread wear life than a typical all-terrain

[@davidharden8469]

Florida is a great place for muddy overlanding. This looks like Ocala National Forest.

[@johnwalker3263]

Nice commando green jeep. Best color ever!

[@ExpeditionPortal]

We agree!

[@Quinn18t]

Genuine question: is this an advertisement?

[@chriskenmotsu9]

Appreciate your heads up on overlanding tires, all I have is a subaru forester with falken wildpeak tires not planning on going where you guys are going, keep doing what your doing brah 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙

[@skiptheroad]

Was that a fast turtle or did you increase the playback speed?

[@ExpeditionPortal]

He was fast! LOL

[@davidharden8469]

Gopher tortoises are surprisingly fast.

[@marauderhot]

Mud tires are terrible in the snow. An all-terrain tire is much better.

[@ExpeditionPortal]

It all depends on the vehicle and conditions. In our crossing of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Antarctica, and the glaciers of Iceland, so much of it is temperature and surface composition-dependent. It is also difficult to obtain all-terrains in sizes conducive to polar and glacier travel (i.e. 44" diameter). We were careful to only advise that mud-terrains are suitable for snow, not that they were the superior choice.

[@benjaminwilley3578]

Here is one for you, best mud tyre for clay?

[@ExpeditionPortal]

The larger the lug void the better, in the hopes that wheelspin will aid in evacuating the sticky and heavy clay. Clay is certainly one of the most challenging mud compositions to drive in.

[@benjaminwilley3578]

@@ExpeditionPortal I've found, and this is not scientific at all, but often a part worn mud tyre is even better than a new mud tyre, because theres is less grip trapping in the dirt?? Has anyone else thought this. But much better than an AT. Coopers Stt pros for me at present in UK mud and clay.