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The Cooper Discoverer S/T Maxx Tire is for those of you who that have a 1987 all the

way up through the most current model year Wrangler, that are looking for a mud-terrain

tire that's just a little bit less aggressive than some of the other options out there.

This tire's gonna be available from a 15 inch wheel to a 20 inch wheel, and in sizes from

31 to 35 inches tall.

Now, when you talk about tires, you have a mud-terrain tire.

Your more traditional mud-terrain tire has these huge lugs with big spaces in between

them that give you a ton of traction, and also the ability to clean out the tire when

it gets caked up with mud when you're off-road, giving you that bite back to the tire.

Now, this is still gonna do that for you.

This has some big lugs, with some big clean out areas in between it, but this is a little

bit more of a hybrid tread.

So the center section of the tire, here, is actually a little bit more all-terrain looking

in my opinion.

And the benefit to that is the fact that this is gonna be a little bit quieter, and it's

gonna wear a little bit better on the road than some of those more traditional-looking

tread patterns on your more traditional mud-terrain tires.

So, this is gonna be a great tire.

This is gonna give you the ability to have these big lugs that are gonna be self-cleaning

off-road, giving you a ton of traction, a ton of grip.

It's also going to have this sidewall that has a little bit of tread on it as well, giving

you the ability to grip with the sidewall, also giving you the ability to have a nice

cut-resistant sidewall.

The rest of the sidewall that doesn't have the tread on it is going to be a three-ply

sidewall, so giving you a ton of strength there.

So, in all those ways, this is going to be a very good tire off-road.

But because it does have that hybrid tread, when you're on-road it's gonna to wear a little

bit better and it's gonna to be a little bit quieter, which are going to be some pretty

nice features.

So, as far as construction goes, pretty much what I already mentioned here.

You're gonna have a three-ply sidewall.

A little bit of tread on the sidewall for grip, and for strength, and for puncture resistance.

You're also gonna be able to air this tire down a good bit, and get some really nice

traction.

Now, speaking of airing down, the big lugs that you do have on the tread here, they are

siped, and what that means is they basically have a cut in them.

So, that allows that lug to flex and really grip when you do have this aired down off-road.

So you're gonna have those big lugs with the big self-cleaning spaces.

Like a lot of the other tires out there, this is designed not to chip, not to chunk, which

is a problem you can have with some of the cheaper sort of no-name-brand tires.

When you have a mud-terrain like this, some of these points, some of these ares of these

big lugs kind of wanna break off on you when you're off-road.

This tire, and a lot of the other tires that we carry, those well-known, well-built tires,

they're not gonna have that problem, this one included.

As far as getting this installed, you are gonna want to take the tire and your wheels

to a mount and balance shop.

If you do get a big 35 inch tire, sometimes the shop won't want to balance that tire out

until you put about 500 to 1,000 miles on it.

A lot of rubber does come off the tire in those first 500 to 1,000 miles, and the balance

is gonna change.

So, sometimes they'll just have you drive around for a while, come back, then get them

balanced.

If your shop does wanna do that, don't worry.

It's a completely normal thing when you're talking about a big mud-terrain tire like

this one.

Now, we've all seen the YouTube videos of people mounting up tires in their driveway,

using some sort of combustible.

I definitely do not recommend that.

That's a trail fix, at best.

You're definitely gonna want to go a mount and balance shop and have them put these on

your wheels for you.

The pricing on this tire's gonna fall anywhere between $200 a tire and $300 a tire, and that

is, of course, going to depend on the overall size of the tire.

The bigger the tire, the more rubber is there, the more expensive it's going to be.

But, also, the wheel that you're going to mount the tire on affects the price.

If you're mounting it on a big 20 inch wheel, that tire's going to be more expensive than

a tire designed for a 15 inch wheel.

It's just the way it goes, you would think it'd be the opposite.

So, do keep that in mind.

If you're going with a bigger wheel and a bigger tire, it's going to be more expensive

than a smaller tire designed to be mounted on a smaller wheel.

Overall, I think that for a mud-terrain tire that has a three-ply sidewall, I think that

this is going to fall right in the range of where you would expect it to be.

There are some less expensive tires out there, but some of those only have a two-ply sidewall,

which is going to be a little bit of a detriment when you're off-road.

You're gonna be able to puncture that sidewall a little bit easier.

So, again, for what you're getting here, I think it's very fairly priced and I think

it's going to be a good deal.

So, if you're looking for a slightly less-aggressive mud-terrain tire that's gonna wear well and

be a little bit quieter on the street for you, I would recommend taking a look at this

Cooper S/T Maxx that you can find right here at extremeterrain.com.