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I am not looking for an all around tire with good road performance, although I don't want them to be nightmarish rough ride on the road considering i have to drive mostly highway to get out West. I was actually looking at the Goodyear Wrangler Duratrecs online the other day, and the tread pattern looks pretty aggressive. I need to figure how to determine the thickness of the sidewall on those.disallow wrote:Duratracs seem to be the consensus for an aggressive tire with decent manners on road as well.
I want something that is good off road and on semi rough dirt road terrain (and I suppose mud), but also good in the snow. Maybe I am going to have to compromise on one side of this.Kestral wrote:. If you want good in the snow skip the mud tires most of them are not good in the snow..
Any rugged tire is going to have a stronger sidewall you should not have any problems in this area considering the R51 Pathy is not that heavy of a truck.rangeoflight32 wrote:I want something that is good off road and on semi rough dirt road terrain (and I suppose mud), but also good in the snow. Maybe I am going to have to compromise on one side of this.Kestral wrote:. If you want good in the snow skip the mud tires most of them are not good in the snow..
Yes my friend recommended 16" size as well. And a stiffer side wall is what I'm looking for, but how do I determine that from the tire specs?
Thanks for all the info..very helpful. I was planning to go with 265/70R16, just because the calculator on https://tiresize.com/calculator/ said that was the equivalent overall size to the 265/65R17s that are on there now.NVSteve wrote:265/75/16 is the max oem size that was installed on the Pathfinder-I probably would not want anything smaller than that myself.
Ok thanks and I had no idea that was a possibility. But you and the previous poster said that, so I will take your word for it, even though the tires have a larger diameter than what is on there right now.disallow wrote:You can run up to 265/75/R16s. This was a factory size for 05-07 on the SE OFFROAD version of the truck.
There are a few more options in that size as it is pretty common.