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I don't know if the "legend" is a new designation, but I had the Baja MTZ on my '14 Ram. Nice tires, but they were pretty loud. Which says a lot because the Ram is pretty quiet inside so I can only imagine how loud they would be on a Wrangler. That is assuming it's the same tire design, of course.
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I'll rate the Maxxis RAZR MTs.

I've run many different tires in the decades I've been wheelin' Wranglers - STT Pro, KM3, Open Country, Fun Country, M/T2, IROK, TSL, and others. But the RAZR MTs are super quiet indestructible 10-ply bad a$$ tires. I will always have a pair on hand. No kidding. I've had nails, screws, bolts, and pieces of trees stuck in these tires and have yet to need a plug for repair. Nothing has gotten through - yet. Probably shouldn't have said that out loud. I'll get a flat now. :swear:

I stopped buying other tire brands 5 years ago and run these on everything I own now - even my wife's JT and she doesn't Offroad in it. I've run every size and width combination I can think of and they all have mostly the same characteristics. Well, as close as they can - I mean a 40 really is nothing like a 35" tire. But they are both rock solid is my point.
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This pair of 35x14.5x17 in this pic below have 43k miles on them and still have half their tread remaining. I took them off to put the 40s on my JL pictured above.

Jeep Wrangler JL Tire comparisons, Owner ratings chart.  What's good and what's hype Maxxis Razr MT tread.JPG


So, on to the ratings:

Noise - 10 because this is the quietest tire I've owned. I no longer drive with a top and you can hold a conversation peacefully while listening to the stereo. In fact, I hear the road noise of other trucks, cars, motorcycles, and vehicles over my Jeep.

Ride - 10 my JL rides better than it did off the dealer's lot with stock tires. My current tire is a 40x12.5x17 Maxxis RAZR MT and the ride is civilized. If you didn't need a step ladder and you were blind, you wouldn't even know my JL had mud tires on it.

Dry - 10 this tire handles perfectly on dry pavement - better than stock because it has more beef

Wet - 10 It's awesome in the rain unless you're the guy behind me :LOL:

Snow - 0

Trail - 10
because it's a 10 ply I usually run it at 4 psi - but I usually run around 5mph or less. The sidewalls are treaded heavily and super strong

Look - 10 I actually first gave this tire a try because of its looks

Overall - 10 This tire really is bullet proof and it's quiet. I can't believe I've found the perfect tire. And since nobody knows about it, it's not crazy expensive.

Wear - 10 The tire is only halfway through its tread wear at 43k miles. Come on - for a mud tire?
 

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I don't know if the "legend" is a new designation, but I had the Baja MTZ on my '14 Ram. Nice tires, but they were pretty loud. Which says a lot because the Ram is pretty quiet inside so I can only imagine how loud they would be on a Wrangler. That is assuming it's the same tire design, of course.
Basically the same tire design, different compound. Supposedly a bit quieter.
 

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I'll rate the Maxxis RAZR MTs.

I've run many different tires in the decades I've been wheelin' Wranglers - STT Pro, KM3, Open Country, Fun Country, M/T2, IROK, TSL, and others. But the RAZR MTs are super quiet indestructible 10-ply bad a$$ tires. I will always have a pair on hand. No kidding. I've had nails, screws, bolts, and pieces of trees stuck in these tires and have yet to need a plug for repair. Nothing has gotten through - yet. Probably shouldn't have said that out loud. I'll get a flat now. :swear:

I stopped buying other tire brands 5 years ago and run these on everything I own now - even my wife's JT and she doesn't Offroad in it. I've run every size and width combination I can think of and they all have mostly the same characteristics. Well, as close as they can - I mean a 40 really is nothing like a 35" tire. But they are both rock solid is my point.
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This pair of 35x14.5x17 in this pic below have 43k miles on them and still have half their tread remaining. I took them off to put the 40s on my JL pictured above.

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So, on to the ratings:

Noise - 10 because this is the quietest tire I've owned. I no longer drive with a top and you can hold a conversation peacefully while listening to the stereo. In fact, I hear the road noise of other trucks, cars, motorcycles, and vehicles over my Jeep.

Ride - 10 my JL rides better than it did off the dealer's lot with stock tires. My current tire is a 40x12.5x17 Maxxis RAZR MT and the ride is civilized. If you didn't need a step ladder and you were blind, you wouldn't even know my JL had mud tires on it.

Dry - 10 this tire handles perfectly on dry pavement - better than stock because it has more beef

Wet - 10 It's awesome in the rain unless you're the guy behind me :LOL:

Snow - 0

Trail - 10
because it's a 10 ply I usually run it at 4 psi - but I usually run around 5mph or less. The sidewalls are treaded heavily and super strong

Look - 10 I actually first gave this tire a try because of its looks

Overall - 10 This tire really is bullet proof and it's quiet. I can't believe I've found the perfect tire. And since nobody knows about it, it's not crazy expensive.

Wear - 10 The tire is only halfway through its tread wear at 43k miles. Come on - for a mud tire?
Nice Jeep right there, do you have a build thread on it by chance, lots of badassery on display, like how you roll!! Since you've been happy w/ the Maxxis MTs have you considered the Trepadors??
 

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Nice Jeep right there, do you have a build thread on it by chance, lots of badassery on display, like how you roll!! Since you've been happy w/ the Maxxis MTs have you considered the Trepadors??
Thanks. I always build them out of my garage at home so it takes some time. Yeah, here's a link to my build thread:
https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/2020-sarge-rubi-home-build.108609/

Funny you should ask about the Trepadors. @4xFredWilliams actually used the 42" version of the bias Trepadors on CODE1 in 2018. I plan on running that same tire on this rig when these RAZR MTs wear down. I've not run them before but I have run bias ply. I'm not a guy who run's down the highway so I've no issue with bias. I just wish they had 44s in the Trepadors - and maybe even 44x18x17.
 

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Anyone running the Mickey Thompson Baja Legend MTZ? Mainly looking for noise input.
Interested in this as well, looking to possibly purchase a set for summer use and Jeep my ko2’s for winter.
 

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Anyone have more than 30k miles on klever rts? How have they balanced? Mine seem to be going out of balance insanely fast for whatever reason. I have one that’s spinning around 29lbs on the road force but it seems like it’s just losing balance really quickly.
Other than the balancing issues wet, dry and noise performance is amazing.
 

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Noise = 6 acceptable for mud terrains but very loud at speed
Ride = 8 very good for an MT
Dry = 8 very good for an MT
Wet = 8 very good for an MT
Snow = 7 they've only seen snow once and did great, but ice they are average
Trail = 9 nothing bad but they aren't stickies lol
Look = 10
Overall = 10 Best on/offroad tires I've owned in 24 years of driving Jeeps
Wear = 8 20k miles on them with plenty of tread left
 

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Noise = 7

Ride = 8

Dry = 8

Wet = 6

Snow = 9

Trail = 10

Look = 9

Overall = 10

Wear = 9



Goodyear Wrangler A/T Adventure (Kevlar)

Noise = 10

Ride = 10

Dry = 8

Wet = 7

Snow = 4

Trail = 5

Look = 6

Overall = 7

Wear = 5
 

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Noise = 7

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Trail = 10

Look = 9

Overall = 10

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Goodyear Wrangler A/T Adventure (Kevlar)

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The Proof is where the Rubber Meets the Road. I have found the GY Duratrac to be the best overall Jeep tire I have ever owned. In the past I only ran GY MTRs and BFG KM2s, but that was my hardcore days of Rocks and did not mind buying a fresh set every year. Where I live know (Florida) rocks are not on the menu. So a great dry trail and some sand and super road and highway performance it the Druatrac.

Best over all tire I have ever driven...
 

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Noise = 6
Wear = 5
Ride = 6
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Wet = 7
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Mud = 7
Sand = 6
Trail = 5
Look = 5 sidewall pattern looks like a monster energy drink can
Overall = 6
Would I buy again? = Nope

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Noise = 7
Wear = 7
Ride = 7
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Wet = 7
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Mud = 8
Sand = 9
Trail = 9
Look = 10
Overall = 8
Would I buy again? = Yes, great tire

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Noise = 7
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Ride = 8
Dry =8
Wet = 8
Snow = 8
Mud = 8
Sand = 9
Trail = 10
Look = 10
Overall = 9
Would I buy again? = Yes, my favorite tire so far, I don’t see myself moving away from this brand/ model.

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Noise = 8
Wear = 6
Ride = 8
Dry = 8
Wet = 7
Snow = 8
Mud = 8
Sand = 8
Trail = 7
Look = 7
Overall = 8
Would I buy again? = No they run small and the traction gets progressively worse as they wear. I ran these on the rubicon when they were new and traction was great I thought “all the naysayers are full of crap” then understood what the complaints were about when I had about 10k miles on them. I began to struggle on obstacles everyone else on similar builds were making. Swapped to the STT pros and immediately felt a difference on the trail.
 

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The Proof is where the Rubber Meets the Road. I have found the GY Duratrac to be the best overall Jeep tire I have ever owned. In the past I only ran GY MTRs and BFG KM2s, but that was my hardcore days of Rocks and did not mind buying a fresh set every year. Where I live know (Florida) rocks are not on the menu. So a great dry trail and some sand and super road and highway performance it the Druatrac.

Best over all tire I have ever driven...
Coming from an old-timer like you, this definitely makes me feel even better about my choice to buy these later this fall or early winter. ? ?
 

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Coming from an old-timer like you, this definitely makes me feel even better about my choice to buy these later this fall or early winter. ? ?
I was really impressed with them, great wet traction also. Was just up in Tampa when we got hit on I 75 with a rain like 2 cows pizzing on a flat rock, Folks were pulling over and I could tell I had TRACTION. I do get off-road often, no mud, but back trails and they work GREAT dirt. I also have 4:88 gears and I can hammer the V 6 and they grab tight an they launch!

Good looking tire
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Coming from an old-timer like you, this definitely makes me feel even better about my choice to buy these later this fall or early winter. ? ?
Another thing people don't realize is that if you bank with USAA, or are a Veteran and sign up with Veteran Canteen Services through the VA, you get 25% off most Goodyear and Firestone tires.... Duratracs are included.
 

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I appreciate the diversity of opinions expressed in this thread. Lots of disagreement. There’s some agreement too, of course, but some folks hate tires that others love.

I think most differences can be explained by:
1) Different use balances (mostly highway with occasional trails? Mostly around town? For example, the drone of a loud mud tire is hardly noticeable if you’re seldom at highway speed. My brother’s use is about 50% trail, 45% around town at 45 mph and below, and 5% on the highway — so he almost never hears the irritating drone.)
2) Different environments. What do “mud”, ”wet traction”, “winter traction”, and “trails”, mean to you?
3) Different experience and frame of reference. Have you been driving offroad for three years in one place, or forty years all over the country?

I live in mountainous Oregon and my brother lives in mountainous Colorado. He never sees the slick, 18” deep, rock-embedded mud we deal with in Oregon’s coast range, so traction in “mud” means something different to him, and neither of us have anything like the bottomless, greasy, clay-based mud we knew as kids on the Georgia-Florida boarder (before Florida was converted to New York south). Similarly, when my brother wheels in snow, the good, large-lugged mud tires (like a Toyo MT) work great, because they’re almost always biting into packed snow, but those tires are a terrible choice for me, because much of our northwest snow is wetter, so it quickly compacts to ice, and the roads on the way to the trail are often covered in ice. The Toyo MT is the worst ice tire I have ever driven, bar none, because it’s a hard rubber compound with big lugs. They slip like football cleats on polished concrete. (On the other hand, the Toyo MT is a great tire if you live where there is no ice — they’re extremely quiet for such an aggressive tire, they wear forever, even on heavy diesel trucks, they aren’t prone to hydroplane, and they’re strong on mud and rocks.)

I’ve found the KO2s to be a great balance for trails as long as there’s no deep mud or snow, and they provide very good traction on ice and wet pavement, as long as there’s no standing water. Unfortunately, the comparatively tight tread pattern that improves their grip on ice and wet pavement also means they are less effective at evacuating water, so the big puddles on the interstate can be a real hazard, especially in a light jeep with oversized tires that want to float.

For my use in my current environment, the KO2 is the perfect summer tire. Studded Duratracs are the perfect winter tire. That’s the combination I run on my pickup. The Duratrac isn’t made in a 17 x 37, so I chose the studded Grabber ATX for the winter tire on the JLUR. Then, two years ago, I decided that I wouldn’t bother keeping studded tires for the Jeep, so I pulled the studs out of the ATXs and I’m using them as year-round rubber. When we have to travel in the ice we take the truck.

I’m two months shy of 47 years of Jeep ownership, almost all of which has been in Oregon’s various environments, but my opinions on tires have swung back and forth depending on environment, changes in my use, and my experience. We all tend to think the tires we have are great when they take us to amazing places and get us through sticky, scary spots, so I LOVED my old KO2s until one scary Thanksgiving episode in the mud (where we winched for hours to get home because I had no traction) and two terrifying hydroplane experiences in super-heavy diesel F-350 pickups running 35x12.50x16.5. I still think highly of the the KO2, but my opinion is tempered by it’s limitations. My opinion was very different before those three experiences.

All this rambling to say, all of our opinions should be taken with a grain of salt and considered through the lens of our use, experience, and environment.
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