Looking to get a decent tire for my 91 ranger i know this is a jeep forum but the all the ranger forums suck and you guys are fun to talk to and you know your stuff (i also have a 96 cherokee) so i am looking for tires that are good for minor off roading so i can go to my hunting spots in the woods yet good on the road i live in Pa. so they also have to be good in snow (not much highway driving) currently running BF Goodrich A/T 31" 10.50" i like them but not good in rain
being that I have wheeled in probably at least half the states and actually hail from Pennsylvania (Southwest, I belive I would be qualified enough to answer this question. Bottom line, you can't do what you want to do with just one tire. A/T's are excellent out here on the slickrock of Utah as well as the snowy/icey roads of SWPA, but the suck at channeling water out and I know that SWPA is actually one of the wettest areas in the US (little unknown fact), and when it rains it really rains. They as well are horrible at spittign out that clay packed mud that you'll find there.
Mud terrians with very wide voids (wider than the BFG or MT/R are excellent in the mud, but are downright dangerous on the roads in SWPA, not to mention they sound like a C-130 coming down the highway.
Street tires isn't going to get you 10 feet off road in the Allegheny's are the Apps.
So my suggestion would be stick with a street tire for the street, pick yourself up some used swampers for off-road. Heck even out here where we get rain maybe 12 times a year and half as many days of snow in the valley, I still run two sets.
