4 Reasons I Chose All-Terrain Tires over Mud

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When I took in my Uncle's 2006 Jeep Wrangler TJ two years ago, the first thing he told me was that it wouldn't need tires for a while, because he'd just replaced them. Since he bought it nearly 15 years ago, he'd lifted it by four inches and fitted it with 35-inch tires on 15-inch wheels, swearing by BFGoodrich KO2 All-Terrain (AT) tires . In his hometown of Moab, Utah, the KO2s had performed beautifully on the most challenging of trails–including Hell's Revenge and Fins n' Things–without breaking a sweat. Before selling it to me, he'd gone through two sets of them.

There was one major problem with his claim: looking at the manufacturer date, the KO2s on my Jeep were from 2011. They had plenty of tread left, but they were rock hard, and cracks were forming in bet