America's Tires Pathfinder A/T

Maximus Ram

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I thought I saw these mentioned in another thread , but a search turned up nothing. I am looking at these for my XJ and since my daughters ZJ needs need tread , too, am trying to a double deal with America's. The counter guy says they are good for about 55,000 miles and have good character on and off road. Oh, XJ's are 31's and ZJ's are 235's..
Has anyone had any experience with these tires ?
Impressions ?

Thanks,
Matt
 

Maximus Ram

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I had not seen the first link , corbin8or...Thanks.
Since my daughter isn't going to do any hard or even mild offroad right now and the XJ is a weekend-mobile, I think I'll give them a try.
I too had thought I heard the they were made by BFG for America's and the counter guy told me Goodyear.

Thaks for the info..:beer:
 

ExpoMike

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I had a set on my old GEO Tracker and never had any problems. Buddy bought a set for a Toyota 2WD pickup and liked them.

Not sure about now but when I had mine, they were built by Kelly Tires.
 

T.Low

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I have the Pathfinder AT's that are shown in the your link.

Mine were purchsed at Discount Tire. Supplied by Kelly Springfield which is now owned by BFG blah blah blah, who the heck knows.

Knock on wood, I've got 13k on my 255/70 16's and am very impressed with them.

I bought them to excel in the rain going thru the mountain passes at freeway speeds and they have done that very well. No problems on the wet pavement. I would grade them as a great hwy tire (quiet, too).

I also wanted to be able to do light off roading with them. They have a heavy duty nylon sidewall that is plenty strong (for the weight of my modified 4x4 Astro van) to guard against rock cuts. The nylon also keeps the tire 15 lbs lighter than the BFG AT, so less rotational weight and less stress on my lighter duty axels and drive train in general. So far, I've traveled off road in many places in Eastern Washington and Oregon that are known to eat tires (lava rock etc) and so far so good. No problems.

I often air down to 20 lbs, and have had no traction problems whatsoever (I do have an Eaton posi in the rear) in any type of terrain, except for the time we found some high quality Gumbo mud in Owyhee, southeast Oregon. Watching all the vehicles in our group, I would say my tires were doing as well as the Yokohama Geolanders and Toyo Open Country ATs, and not quite as well as the BFG ATs, all though everyone without MTs complained heavily. I didn't get stuck or anything at that time, it was just a little less secure feeling.

They really suprised me in the deep snow, and are fine in the 3" snow and ice and slush.

Overall, I am enthusiastically satisfied with them, and would recomend them over the BFG if your looking to excel on pavement or logging road or sand rather than mud. If you want to emphasis the latter over the former but don't want an MT, then get the BFG AT.

For what its worth, I've made it thru mud and snow where I had to pull a stock Explorer out that could not follow me. Not that I'm saying the Pathfinder is superior in those conditions than a BFG, but the Explorer did have new BFG AT's.

In the bottom picture, I took the mud/snow line off the side of the Forest Service rd because there were two trucks stuck in the snow at the time, and I had to go all the way around the tree in deep mud.

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mdnky

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Supplied by Kelly Springfield which is now owned by BFG blah blah blah, who the heck knows.

They're made by Kelly, which is a subsidiary of Goodyear. BFG is a subsidiary of Michelin. Everybody owns everybody now in the tire world.

Michelin (Michelin/BFG/Uniroyal/Riken)
Goodyear (Goodyear/Dunlop/Kelly Springfield/Fierce)
Bridgestone (Bridgestone/Firestone/Fuzion)
Cooper (Cooper/Avon/Mastercraft)
 
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