Radial, $350 yes, but more than likely decrease in value eventually like the 37MT/Rs did.

I have no idea at this time. I am sure by the time I am ready for a new set there will be more of a selection, but, I can assure you will will not be these egg shaped MT/Rs.

Gadget

Not gadget but here's what I'm buying next to run off road and in the winter -

http://tires2.digiknow.com/dunlop/d...rea=Light+Truck

They're a "commercial traction" tire so their road manners and wear should be better than the typical MT. I think they'll be better than a typical AT for wheeling also...

I use BFG all terrain ko's. Very nice tire. Excellent on and off road. I live in B.C Canada so we get every kind of weather imaginable. Highly recomment BFG. I have heard mention of BFG having very soft sidewalls. Unless your doing some serious rock crawling thats not even a factor.

The drive out price is currently $286 - the waiting period is 3 weeks.

As the others said, they are radials and really the only thing that will come close to competing with the MT/R. I hope that they will start spiralling in price like the 37's did. By the book, people are paying less for the 37 MT/R's than I did for my 33's. Also hope that when the time comes, someone has had the time or balls to daily drive them to see how soft the compound is.

I have during various balances, ended up with as much as 1 pound on the outside of the wheel. My wheels are black steel, so it is really easy to see the shiny weights which prompts a lot of OH MY's.

The MT/R's have done some sick things at low pressues hugging rocks, they are a great tire to wheel and I think that anything else that will come even close for the wheeling that I do will either cost twice as much or ride 100 times worse.

Just out of curiosity, are you guys rotating front to back or cross rotating? My father had his local honda dealer rotate his tires. They only do a front to rear, and the steering started to pull hard to one side. I did a cross rotation for him and all was well. I usually move the driver's side rear tire to the front, driver's front to the passenger's rear, passenger's rear to passenger's front,passenger's front to the spare, spare to driver's rear. With a 4-tire rotation, I go rear to front, then crossover the fronts to the opposite rear. So far, I've gotten good results on all my cars doing this. This, of course, assumes you're not using those uni-directional performance tires!

BTW, a toyota tech told me that they compensate on the caster (or camber, forgot which one) so the vehicle tracks straight straight when the road has some lateral tilt (for drainage). In other words, the settings for the front tires are offset by a fraction of a degree, meaning tire wear on the driver and passenger side front is uneven.

Anyways, I just mentioned this as a possible remedy you could try yourself for free.

The proper X rotation is drive tires straight forward or back depending on front or rear drive. Then none drive tires to the other side oposite end.

Gadget