It was the MD. Rides like a new car.

 

Here's the link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mesh-Car-Roo...8f4a80&vxp=mtr

I had to drill some whole and modify the mounts that came with it to get it to follow the roof rails and not sink down in, You'll see from the picture that the supplied mounts are meant to attached to roof rails that go side to side. You just look at my pictures and you'll see how I made it work.

I originally went with this rack because I needed to fit under 7" to access a parking garage. Now longer a requirement so I went with the lift kit which puts me about 7'2"

 

I went a head and took the chance anyway. Bought 5 Mud Claw 265/75R/16 Despite your warning on lower quality. I'm glad I did. Here's a side by side of the original re-treads I bought from them a couple years ago, as you can see the white areas were they looks like it wasn't covered fully on the old tires plus they say BF Goodrich.



As you can see from the new tires, the sidewalls say Treadwright and they looks superior in quality compared the old ones still mounted. At $129 a piece for all five, I ordered late in the day on May 1st and they were delivered today May 6th, for only $56 in shipping. Needless to say I'm pretty happy so far. Now let me get them mounted and balanced and see how they perform, if you watched the video I posted in this thread I'll be going back to that long stretch of water and trying it again with these tires!!!

 

People have mixed results on the retreads for sure. I've never personally had a bad experience when I've ridden in other's vehicles that had them. I don't run them because of potential delamination, but that's not to say they'll all fail(or any). They'll look good on there!

 

I got my guard dogs from tread wright about a year ago. So far they have been great, they still look like they are brand new after putting 10,000 miles on them. I had used them in the past on a different truck and had a great experience. Getting the new ones though I can say without a doubt that the new tires coming out are better quality then the old ones. I will also go on record that when I did have a problem in the past, they sent me two new tires for one that went bad.

 

I am not a fan of retreads, but your discovery looks nice. Nice to see one of these in Destin

 

I have to agree, after buying a set of retreads from them in the past, I learned my local PepBoys wouldn't install "retreads" today in 2015 when they did in 2013.. I brought them all five new Treadwright Tires with the sticker still in tacked and they installed, balanced, and did a front end alignment with no issue.

I think it looks pretty damn good with the new rubber..



I can't wait to get in the mud and see how they Perform..

 

very nice

 

Is that an optical delusion or does the new tire look quite a lot larger than the old one when the only difference is the width??

Is it correct that the old is a 245/75/16 and the new is 265/75/16?

What makes the new one look so much taller i guess is my question...

Looks great though, i'm about to pull the trigger on tires but my Michelins still got tread at 90k!!

 

the 265 has an extra .75 in side wall and 1.25 in Diameter.
but it does look like more