Or you could just arrange all your off-road trips to be relatively close
to Jon's place and use his lift & air wrench :)
Jason Bleazard wrote:
>
> The other disadvantage to running two sets of tires (as I've
> discovered) is the overhead in switching all four every time you want
> to go off-roading. Actually, putting the muds on isn't that bad, the
> part I hate is stopping to put the street tires back on after I've
> been driving on the trails all day. I'm usually pretty exhausted by
> that point, and I end up driving home on the Swampers and changing
> back the next day.
>
> --- "Mr. Plow" <adam_is_mr_plow@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > The best way to avoid this is to get a "true" off-road tire on a
> > totally
> > separate set of rims. And then a "true" street set on your stock
> > rims. You
> > can pick up cheap rims that look crappy--you shouldn't care since
> > they'll
> > only be used in the winter and in the mud. With this scenario, you
> > get
> > better fuel economy while on the street tires, and better traction
> > on the
> > trails.
> > Drawbacks--gotta have somewhere to store one set of rims/tires,
> > have to pay
> > for second set of tires (like i said, rims can be cheap).
> >
> > But then again, it all depends how much you're off-road, good luck
> > in any
> > case.
> >
> > The Adam Blaster
>
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