4 x 4 sand tire recommendations

so you won't drive it on the road at all?

 

just get a good all terrain like BFG. I drive on the sand a lot and they work fine. unless you are going to really root around in the soft stuff, you don't need an aggressive tread. the one thing you are really going to want to watch is keeping the underside clean. sand and salt kills vehicles.

 

I had BFG All Terrains (P285/R17) on my Ram 1500. They worked great. That said, the best sand tire is the one you take air out of. I always air down to 20psi initially.

 

bfg all the way as other dudes said.

 

im selling some 32s right now with 10k on them if your interested.

 

I had a 82 jeep scrambler and put farm use tires on it. 3 treads. killer on the beach but hell going across bridges with the steel grate. Any tire will do as long as you deflate them.

 

I currently use Firestone Destination AT. They're great on sand. I do air down to 20ish. I have a lighter truck than you though. Mine comes in at 4300 LBS Ram 1500 is like 6500 right?

 

I had Micky Tompson Baja Claws on my old ram 1500. they were the best tires i have ever had on a truck. I did alot of off roading and it was unreal the things i could get through with them. they have and extrmely agressive tred pattern yet they make little noise on the pavement. best of all they lasted me 40,000 miles

 

Lots of good info mentioned so far. MTs are no good since they dig for traction. On sand, you want to float and that's why we air down. The BFG ATs should be pretty much what you need for sand and street and looks. 10 to 25psi should work. Pssssssssssssssstttt air down buoys! I just got the Wrangler Duratracs a few months back and they look like MTs but perform like ATs. Interested to see how they are on sand in Nantucket. I go with 285/17s like an earlier poster and those are just about 33"s. This forum just got that much cooler. The football threads get no love but at least you guys like trucks and beer and wahines.

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You don't wan at s for sand. You want a big bald flat tire. 20 psi any less and you risk derimming.

 

I have Michelin lt ms2 on my runner and they are great in the sand and road.

 

Yes but he said he also wants street function for them I think. Can't go bald in that case.

 

The BFG's (all terrain) aren't bad, and the Mickey Thompsons are really good but pricey.

EmassSpicoli summed it up.... you need a wider tire with less aggressive tread and when you're off road in the sand you want to really air them down. You can get stuck in the sand and a lot of times if you just let the air out of your tires you can drive right out!

 

In the days of my youth, my family would vacation every year in Buxton. We would take our old International Travelall (the original SUV) out to the point to fish all the time. This was in the days before Piping Plovers and all the restrictions. Anybody who's been out there knows that sand is about as soft as it gets. Always had plain old bias ply street tread tires, not even M&S. The only thing we'd ever do is air down to about 20 psi. The only time we ever got stuck was our very first time out. Discovered we didn't have the balky transfer case fully engaged into 4WD. Made it most of the way in 2WD and soft tires. What you want is a big footprint to spread the weight around, maintain forward speed and not dig in. Sure do miss those days...

 

We met an old fisherman down on the point one time who had a 2WD van out there. He would air down almost to the point of riding on the rims and drive super slow.

 

We were on the beach in Corolla, and heard a roaring coming from the other side of the ramp. A black camero came blasting over the dune, across at least 50 yards of beach, down to the water line and headed N. we turned around, and attempted to follow, but he was long gone.

 

Ahh the days of youth...used to take my friends subaru 4wd CAR on the beach around Rodanthe and Oregon inlet. That thang had no clearance and no business tackling all the soft sand before you get near the water but we had no brains and plenty of energy. Everyone except the driver had to pile out and wait for the driver to hit the sand about 50mph, glide almost to a stop and then everyone push until we got to hard sand.

The return trip was even more fun due to having to reach speed on an angled, camel humped incoming tide beach then make the off camber turn toward the ramp.

My mom and grandparents used to take the station wagon to carova from the Va. side of the NC/VA line before the back bay wildlife refuge was there.

From my observations, if you get stuck on the beach, the number of minutes or yards it took you to get stuck is roughly equivalent to your I.Q.