Your 2¢ - Squatch Tire Wear

[freetors]

I have these tires on my jeep and have put about 12k miles on them. I don't get off the pavement as much as I'd like but mine are wearing really well. It seemed like they were wearing pretty quickly for the first couple thousand miles, but after that the wear has really slowed down. As other posters have said, they use a really soft rubber compound. This makes them grip really well in many different use cases but it does come at the cost of wear and less resistance to chunking. I do think the rubber compound heat cycles after a while and the tire wear becomes much slower and more stabilized. I'll probably get bored of them long before but I believe mine will make 30k miles pretty easily.

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[Broncotrax]

Normal for that tire. I’ve got some chunking and 4k miles so far. Doesn’t not handle rocks and compound too soft. Other wise they are great tires. Perform great on snow, mud, rocks, and quiet. My guess mine will need replaced by 20k-30k unless I blow a sidewall by then.

Agreed.

 

[dcaero]

Mine have 25k on them, good number of off-road and towing miles. They are spent. Have gotten three punctures this summer. Time for them to be replaced with something more robust.

 

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There is a TFL podcast with 2 Goodyear Tire representatives and they clarify the terminology. I can try to find the link...

This is the summary: "Goodyear wants the consumer to understand their Territory MT tire is a Maximum Traction tire not a Mud Terrain tire."

I feel like it’s intentionally confusing by GY. Manufacturers get to sell their trucks with “MT” tires that give the MPG and ride softness people want from an OEM tire.

On an unrelated note, isn’t the KO3 long overdue? I wonder when that will percolate through the Ford models once released. I have a feeling people will be unhappy losing their cheese puff tread

 

[projectbadlands]

They wear fast, one of the big complaints with the Territories. They're technically M/Ts.

Lol no they are not. They are All Terrain tires just like its predecessor and the MT stamped on the side stands for Max Traction. It is not a Mud Terrain tire. Real MT's have larger blocks and larger gaps between those blocks to handle mud.

 

[Imonamoose]

About 8k miles and about 1/4th of those have been doing moderate trail running.

I am in the "air down, dummy" group and am bad about that.... But the stock tire is not great to be honest.

 

[WeirdFlex]

The tires are made from soft rubber. These are great on the highway, but I really wouldnt offroad them too much. What type of wheeling have you been doing? Rocks are really going to chew them up, but even offroad trails are going to eat at them. My original KOs were toast after a moab adventure. They are much better now with the ko2s.

Been mainly doing dirt paths, but out on the SoCal trails I’ve done we have almost entirely hard pack dirt, dry dirt with gravel, sand. I haven’t done much on rocks but did do one climb that we did super slowly in mixed terrain.

 

[WeirdFlex]

I have recently passed 10,000 miles on mine with at least 2000 of those miles on unpaved roads. I'm not seeing the ragged stuff on my tires that are showing in the first photo. My tire wear looks totally normal to me.

And I often drive on roads that look like this:

Fascinating… that’s great to know. Thank you!

 

[Scott R Nelson]

Fascinating… that’s great to know. Thank you!

Funny that you would quote that post with that photo today. I just went back up there in my Bronco this afternoon. It's even rougher and rockier than I remember. And the Goodyears are holding up well to driving on stuff like that.

 

[da_jokker]

I have 10k on mine...fronts have worn down 2.5mm and backs 4.5mm

They were wearing so evenly, that I really didn't want to rotate them but I did... we'll see how bad that messes it up.

 

[carlonyc77]

now this is a piece missing! only 3k miles on them, GY R/T. I did 3 or 4 trails, nothing crazy just moderate. Not too happy with those tires TBH

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