General tire grabber
Something, dare we say, trendy, and no tire segment fits that bill quite like aggressive all terrains. Last year I logged over 15,000 miles on a set of M/T’s in my Ford Excursion, but for 2019 I wanted to try something new. Not a great way to start a trip, but a fantastic beginning to my evaluation of these tires. I cringed as the rubber curled and distorted, seeming to flow around the boulder rather than slip by, but to my amazement it held strong, and the Excursion clawed its way up and onto the main track once more. The Generals turned slowly, grappling for traction in the icy rocks. I dropped the Excursion into low range and applied a hair of throttle to the 7.3L diesel. Well, time to find out if these new tires are worth their salt. I peered back through the mirror and saw the sidewall of my brand new A/Tx wrapped around a rock like a balloon ready to burst. Just a few hours earlier I had been in Phoenix under sunny skies, but now I was further north, and heavy snow had covered most of the road’s obstacles, including the one that I had failed to see. The truck stopped with a thud, and I sighed in annoyance at the situation. Crap was about the only word my brain could process as I felt the rock shift beneath the Excursion’s mass, letting the rear end slip from its precarious perch down into a ditch.