anyone else noticed MTRs to be bad in wet relative to other muddies?

Have they grown to be noisy or were they like that from the start. I have heard that regular balancing is necessary to keep them quiet. Mine were very quiet from the start, still quiet 15k later.

Hi, I have found that all big block tyres get noisier as they wear, but I just had my gearbox rebuilt and now everything seems noisy, just shut the windows turn on the AC and up the volume on the radio, great if you are anti-social one like me.

I haven't had to have a tyre rebalanced in years, I have them off regularly and check them for uneven wear and if I don't see any and their is no vibration I can not see the point.

Have fun

Craig

Yeah I'm with you Daveo, mine are getting a little long in the tooth and I have noticed they are not as good in the wet this winter as they have been previously, but personally I foudn their perfomance on wet roads to be amazingly good. I really thought that was one of their strongest points in my mind.

But yeah I've got about 40k on mine and they'd prob have another 10 in them but mine are wearing unevenly because my steering idler is worn. 80k is pretty full on, I wouldn't get close to that out of mine!

from what the missus has been telling me you should have had no worries testing out the wet weather capabilities lately (especially as you are further south now)
absaluuutly perfect weather here in the Pilbarra nights are cool but not cold with clear days in the mid to low 20s

Hehe, yeah I just about needed the snorkel to get out of the driveway the other day! The "puddle" at the end of the drive was creeping closer and closer to the house... It's a bit of a worry when you have non-stop rain, the entire street is underwater and your GPS reads that your house is -1m above sea level!??

The kids can do slippery dips on the back lawn, I don't even have to have a slippery dip! Your feet just sink into the lawn in some kind of black pete type sludge that just looks like lawn.

You probably just answered your own question. Running preasures a little high will often improve the wear but normally at the expense of road holding, braking & traction. I would personally rather have those 3 attributes than have tyres that last more than 50K which is about all we are getting out of our MTR's. Even on a heavily loaded Cruiser we would rarely pump them up much over 40psi.
You could possibly do a test letting your's down to 34 & see if there is any improvement in wet road holding although at 80,000KM I would suggest they would be well past their prime.
Both at home & at work all our vehicles shod with MTR's have handled better than other mud patterns in the wet.
Cheers Craig..................

I've got to agree with Crackles. I run my MTRs between 34-36psi on road and think they are very good in the wet for an off road type tyre.

I think mileage is an important factor - given the amount of rubber tied up in a lot of 4WD tyres, it's pretty environmentally unfriendly (not to mention costly) to be throwing them out every 50K kays... Having said that, safety shouldn't be compromised on, and I have probably been running my pressures a bit high for wet conditions...

Cheers

I know what you're saying about less need for two spares - I can't believe how much punishment these things take and they don't seem to 'chip' like BFG lugs... I've run them at everything from 10-40psi on all services without a single problem.