Weekend rigs
Off-road and ATV tires
ATV, UTV and side-by-side tires and rims, mud and off-road sets, and the alignment work that goes with a lifted truck.
Chapter 01
Off-road tires fail in their own ways
Aggressive mud tires are cut and chunked rather than worn smooth. Rock and root tear lugs off the shoulder, and a sidewall that meets a stump at the wrong angle is finished in a way no highway tire ever is.
The other half of the problem is on the road. A big off-road set on a daily-driven truck gets noisy, wears fast at the shoulders and can pull badly if the geometry has not been reset after a lift.
A custom-built Polaris RZR on oversized mud tires under the covered structure at D H Tire
Matching rubber and rim to the machine
For ATVs, UTVs and side-by-sides it is tire and rim together, and the combination matters as much as the tread. We do a lot of this work, and the shop has ATV alignment on the wall because the setup on a side-by-side is not an afterthought.
On lifted trucks, the tire size and the lift have to agree with each other and with the steering geometry. Getting a set of thirty-fives under a truck is easy, getting them under it without rubbing or scrubbing is the part worth paying for.
Call (713) 234-0629 or come to 6903 Lyons Ave and we will work out sizes and pricing with you. People come across Houston for this corner of the shop.
Chapter 03
Making an off-road set last
Pressure is the thing people get wrong. Running an aggressive tire at the wrong pressure on pavement wears the centre or the shoulders off it in a season, and the correct on-road pressure is usually higher than what feels right after a weekend aired down.
Rotate them, and look at the lugs after a hard run. A cut caught while it is small is a tire that carries on. A cut left to open up lets grit into the casing and ends it early.
D H Tire, Family owned in Houston since 1987. Call (713) 234-0629.