Rugged terrain tires offer excellent terrain versatility with their tread design and durability. They are the only tire model which can securely perform both on- and off-road and it ensures high driving safety levels. These tires combine the aggressive traction needed for off-road terrain with a comfortable on-road performance.
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Quick Review
- Season: All Season
- Type: Rugged Terrain
- Car Type: Light Truck
- Run Flat: NO
- In Stock: No
Priority Tire has a wide range of various terrain light trucks tires for sale. One of the favorites in our lineup is Mickey Thompson’s Baja ATZP3. This tire features a rugged tread design, a durable compound and a reinforced structure to guarantee a secure performing capability.
Furthermore, the Baja ATZP3 comes with a 45,000 mile treadwear warranty, which is usually not given with light truck tires.
Rugged Terrain Performance
Rugged terrain tires are capable of, as their name states, conquering various terrain conditions. The optimal tread pattern, the durable compound and the reinforced construction combined ensure the tire’s exceptional traction and performing capability.
The Baja ATZP3 features a wide footprint with large, staggered tread blocks, wide lateral shoulder voids and grooves that increase the model’s soft, loose and uneven terrain gripping ability. This allows the tire to improve traction on various terrain surfaces with ease, as the tire upgrades the gripping capability. The special upper sidewall tread design enables the tire’s forward motion in deep mud and loose dirt, preventing them from being stuck in such conditions. The durable compound enables the tire’s rocky surface performance as it increases the traction and gripping ability on such surfaces.
The tire’s self-cleaning nature ensures constant terrain contact. The staggered tread blocks, wide grooves and open shoulder pattern eliminate mud stuck between the tread elements. This prevents it from blocking the tire’s contact with the terrain surface and ensures a safer driving experience in such conditions.
All Season Performance
Most light truck tires have excellent all weather traction. Their durable rubber construction and detailed tread pattern enable their use throughout the year. The better controllability in varied weather improves their versatile application and promotes a safer performance.
The Baja ATZP3 features an aggressive tread pattern molded from a durable all season silica-compound. They work together to increase the tire’s dry, wet and winter weather road and terrain surface gripping ability. The tread design with the large tread blocks and wide grooves find a firm grip on the surface in all weather, while the compound keeps its flexible traction. The tread pattern also keeps the footprint clean. These elements prevent snow from packing into the grooves and cutting off the tire’s contact with the road and terrain surface. In this manner, the tire guarantees a secure year round performing capability.
The tire also helps resists on-road hydroplaning. When driving on concrete surfaces, the water and slush that is stuck on the road can cut off the tire’s contact with the road. If this happens the driver loses control over the vehicle and it can cause accidents. The tread pattern of the Baja ATZP3 is designed to channel this water and slush away from the footprint to maintain constant road contact. This actively resists hydroplaning during the tire’s performance and guarantees a safer driving experience.
Damage Resistance
During a tire’s off-road performance, numerous road hazards are lying in wait. Different terrains are capable of harming the tire in different ways and rugged terrain tires must have reinforced damage protection to survive such conditions.
The Baja ATZP3 features a special self-cleaning tread pattern. This pattern’s stone ejecting ribs, staggered tread blocks and high void ratio manage to maintain a clean footprint. They eject rocks stuck between the tread elements to keep the footprint clean. This successfully prevents stone retention from drilling rocks into the tire’s casing and harming the tire in the process.
The model’s damage prevention is further improved with the reinforced sidewall structure and tread pattern. The sidewall’s ply construction avoids damage to the tire and enhances its controllability. It maintains the optimal tire shape under the driving and load pressure, which improves the steering responsiveness to the driver’s commands. This, along with the detailed sidewall pattern, also resists punctures and impact damage from shortening the tire’s usability.
On-Road Comfort
Even rugged terrain tires can offer high on-road driving comfort levels. Their tread pattern is designed to handle the harsh off-road terrain conditions, while it helps decrease the road noise heard during the tire’s highway performance.
The Baja ATZP3 was manufactured with an optimized tread pattern that offers both comfort and traction. During the tire’s on-road driving, the tread pattern’s special low optimized pitch sequence, located on the shoulder tread area, lowers the road noise heard while the tires are in motion. The variable pitch sequence generates a unique sound frequency during the drive, which negates the road and tread pattern noise created. In this manner, the soundwaves are cancelled out before they can reach the vehicle’s cabin and ruin the driving comfort. The reduced road noise levels ensure quiet and comfortable driving experience.
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