Simex Centipede tyres

Heres a bit of a comparo another list about JT2's and Extremes..

Personal opinion, apart from needing to get your car engineered to be legal, or have any insurance (now around $5-700 for engineers - except Qld where you cant run 35's legally), your better running 2 sets of rims and tires. Then if you do that, go Swampers instead of Pedes for weekends, and AT's for the road.. ATs are so much better on road than Pedes or swampers its not funny.

Anyway read on.

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These are on Shanes serious GU ute

My ET(pedes)s have done around 25,000 and are down to 40 to 50 percent.
the only others i can compare too is the bias claws, the ET's seem better all round except straight line loose dirt traction.

i only had the claws for one trip though and ripped off a couple of lugs.
the ets grip better on road wet or dry than my bfg mt's and absolutely blitz them off road.

the et's are very noisy if that sort of thing worries you, no more sneaking home late cos the whole neiborhood hears you coming

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jeep tj (15-1600kg) - 34" JT2's - 15-20,000k's

These were a great tyre

mud - awesome, plain and simple. Never had a problem with lateral traction. Splitting hairs between ET and JT2's here

rock - I didn't like them that much on rock as already stated. Especially wet rock, they would only walk up stuff when the lugs were gripping and on really cut up rock shelves would not work very well. ET's just take the cake here

Snow - Could crawl on deep dry powder so that it compressed, drive along through 1-2 foot deep without a problem. JT2's were damn good in snow, and so were the ET's. Too hard to call

Road - JT2's are noisier. Didn't really matter what psi they were at. Just changed the sweet spot for noise. ET's ride worse, but I think that is because I have them on beadlocks

They are both damn good tires
ET's are directional though
JT2's are cheaper

I had a set of Q78 Swampers on my GU, whilst my brothewrt (identical GU) had CEntipedes.

A quick comparo would indicate the Swampers a little better offload, bag up more when air'd down, and work better on rock by far. both are excellent in mud, and both priced roughly the same, $400 a tyre.

The 'Pede drives a lot better than the Swamper.

I personally would fit Swampers over a Centipede every time.

I would NOT recommend either these 2 tyres, or JT's as a daily driver... they are a PURE offroad tyre, used only for 4wding in hard area's.