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When I had my 81 GMC Jimmy it came with some 34" tall Uniroyal Radials. They were called Radial 23° ATVs. The whole time I owned it I wanted to replace them with some BF Goodriches or super swmpers but the darn things just wouldn't wear and went thru EVERYTHING! They were amazing, mud, snow, ice, sand, dry, wet, it just didn't matter. The only negative was when driving down the highway and 70-80 mph there were couple of places with bumps that it would catch air on. Just a bit un-nerving.

Put a proper 4 inch suspension lift on it. When I got it the previous owner had lifted it just using big shocks to fit the big tires under it and the angle on the rear drive shaft ate the u-joints. When I tried to drive it using only the front wheels by throwing the drive shaft in the back and putting a spray can cap on the tranny, found the front hubs were full of mud instead of grease and the springs that locked out the hubs were rusted away. So it was off to the 4x4 shop.

When I went to pick up the truck from getting the lift kit put on, new rear drive shaft, locking hubs, springs, shocks etc. replaced it was super super clean. When I asked about it the guys at the shop said in order to check out the 4x4 they took it through the racing mud pit that had been set up for racing at the fair grounds and cleaned it up for me. Told me they were really impressed that it made it completely through the pit and that the Suburban they raced and most of the other trucks that raced wouldn't even make it all the way thru that mud pit like my Jimmy. Told me I should consider entering it in the mud races.

On time was cruising around in it when we had a huge snow storm. Came up on the one place where the snow had drifted over the road and was as deep as the truck was tall. The drift was about a block long. There were 3 other 4x4s that were attempting to go thru it when we came up on it. They were only getting all four wheels into the drift then getting stuck and pulling each other out. When we came up on it we just blazed thru it and kept on going saying those other 4x4's were just 4x4 wannabes.

As we were going thru the deep snow I noticed the truck would slow way down and start to sink. Then as the snow packed up under the tires it would get more bite and lurch fowards, then start slowing and sinking again and repeat. Did the same thing going thru everything I tried. It must have been the size of the tires and weight of the truck and traction of the tires was just right that the tires would get bite and move forwards just before it sank deep enough to get stuck.

My friends an I spent the week of all the now going around pulling people out of ditches. Well, unless they didn't offer to pay or say thank you. Then we pushed em back into the ditch and went on. There was only two guys that refused to thank us.

There was one guy in a Trans Am that we pushed a block in the deep snow back to his apartments. He cussed like crazy but not at us. We had a big inner tube hanging on the front bumper to keep from tearing cars up that we pushed, but he kept holding his brakes on and tearing up the back of his car while we were pushing him. Kept stopping and telling him to leave the brake alone and as soon as we would start moving, the brake lights lit up and bam, it would crush the inner tube and tear up the back of his car.

Just had all season tires on the Rover and it did fine. Same with the CayenneS. Going to have to replace the tires I was using on the S as I noticed the other day the tread is almost gone after 3 years. Have those wheels and tires on the Turbo now. Had high performance summer Pirellis on the BMW SUV (they were the only tires that size), but it got around on the snow and ice we have just fine.