If you give it any thought at all it won’t surprise you to know that there are actually a wide range of mud tyre types available on the market today. Just think about how variable mud tends to be to drive on and you will see why there needs to be such a wide selection of tyres available to help users deal with the conditions.
Slippery mud, deep mud, shallow mud, dried mud – all give very different driving conditions that mud tyres have to contend with. Which is why there has to be a wide selection.
Types of Mud Tyres
General mud tyres. The ‘middle of the road’ option. The mud tyres are an effort to be able to deal with all sorts of mud, and often some road use as well. They have a wide tread and relatively thick rubber which leads to good grip in mud but can make road use a bit noisy. Often also used for driving in snowy conditions as well.
All Terrain Tyres. These are designed specifically for offroading – but again cover a wide range of terrain (hence the name) from slippery mud through to hard packed dirt and gravel. These all purpose terrain tyres tend to have wide treads to help grip and provide traction and very hard and rigid sides of the tyre to protect the tyre from being burst by the terrain.
Mud specific tyres. These are the most specialist of all the types of mud tyre that you are likely to come across. In a lot of cases rather than having treads they have what can only be described as paddles carved into the thick tyres, helping to almost scoop the car forward through mud in almost the same way as oars in a boat work.