wicked_xj

i heard theses tires suck there great for the street but thats it. Anyways my dads a pro at grooving he used to do big truck tires and he did his coopers

muddeprived

You know the forums, one bad experience equals 1000 bad experiences. No one around here runs them due to the rumors that they SUCK. I've researched them last year and almost considered them but somehow the guy at 4wd hardware talked me out of it cuz he had them and said the two words that everyone says "they suck". He convinced me to go with trxus again and whatdoyaknow, they suck too!

Teal96XJ

I still dont know why everybody hates them......

I had 31's on my nissan they did awesome off road and on the road as well i never had ANY problems with them at all........

ktmracer419

i have had problems with every tire i have ever ran.

everything is a tradeoff

black96xj

i loved them had a set of 35s on my old burban no shakes shimmys nothing but of course that thang was a tank and weighed alot too

jpdocdave

well since my post there's at least another first hand experience that liked them, i can personally compare them to bfg all terrain, bfg mud terrain, pep boys crap brand, and tsl. the thornbirds were my favorite, way better than bfg.

the only tire i will consider on my build other than them will be boggers

richxj89

my tires now are bald bfg a/t and i know they will fair much better than them. if they suck ill just groove em thats why i started this thread to see what u guys knew about grooving. if a grooving iron is only 60 bucks i may take a whack at it.

JakeWI

if they are cheap and you want to give them a shot just do it. i havent heard anything good about them, but if they are super cheap try syping them and see how they do. if they suck well, you didnt spend much money and try getting some other sucker do buy them from you.

aircruiser

ive got a friend with 33" thornbirds on his dakota and he likes em. never taken em offroad yet but they do look alright.

jpdocdave

i've heard you can use a dull sawzall to do it also.

chilixj99

This has nothing to do with thornbirds, but I watched this video after watching to one 93XJ posted. It's about 5 min long, but well worth the watch to me. This guy does some pretty crazy stuff with his XJ.

richxj89

maybe i could try this lol

jpdocdave

the wrangler or cj,(don't remember now) in the begining was an idiot. and the driver of the xj showed some skill at least. but did you see how bald his tires were from burning them up on the rocks all the time?

michigan_maniac1987

tire grooving is easy with a grooving iron, i bought one from a race shop, i cut my 42 inch tsl's with no problem, it just takes time go slow dont rush yourself and after a while you will find what works the best....what i recomend is getting a few different sized cutting heads and blades, i got two, a 1/4 inch width and 1/2 inch width, plan ahead before you cut make sure you keep the same pattern around the whole tire so it will be ballanced, i marked everything i wanted to cut with a tire crayon, or marker

good luck

whowey

I had a set of ThornTurds on one of my mud trucks.... BAD tire...Bad,Bad,Bad for anything but looking cool and driving on the street....

Luckily I lived in an area with alot of poseur trucks.....