Mike Melton tests cheap off-road tires against quality ones using shop equipment, revealing construction flaws and vibration problems. Cheap Atturo tires showed 31+ pounds of force imbalance versus 1.75 ounces for a Toyo M/T. He warns against budget tires and demonstrates how improper mounting and balancing procedures damage wheels.
A little bit of what we mount up right here. So these are Turo Trailblade MTS. These are kind of like 50, 50. They're going to be balanced. Not good or bad, but they are an inexpensive tire. So what size are these things? 30, 37, 13, 50, 22s. Go mount them up on some Maverick hunter machine. You're not sure what that tire is. Turret Trailblade mts. Now, this is the tire. This one here, the Atturo imitates the Toyo empty. So this right here is the Toyo empty right here. These are set of 35, 12, 50, 20s. When it comes to quality night and day, difference between that tire and that tire, guys taking off these raggedy venoms, man, don't ever buy venom tires. These things are trash. So you can see these things got plenty of tread lifts still up on them. Yeah, so he got tired of just sitting there dealing with the vibration problems. Tires are trash. So of course we're gonna put some good stuff on there. Getting that mounted up on there, setting this thing up on the balancer. Let's see how these things come out. Then we're gonna show you how these compare to the Toyo's when they balance out. So here we use a flange plate system that balances by the lug holes. Even though the wheels are Huff centric. Doesn't matter. Gives you a better balance. For all the tire shops that are watching, this is going to be right there in my description. So if you want to purchase a set of these flange plates, all you do is hit that link in the description. Just a brand new set of wheels, no weights on it at all. So of course, before you bounce the tire, what do you got to do? You got to take that damn sticker off. Take it all the way off. Come on. See, they even cheap out on the glue and the stickers, man, the thing just tear up. So now we get everything set up on the road for us. Let's go ahead and rose, force these things out. See how these things come out. Now, like I said, The Atturo Trailblade MTs are going to be a 50, 50. For the 50, 50 chances you're going to get a good set or a bad set. So rollers about to come down on it, and it's going to detect any kind of vibration issues before the customer puts them on their vehicle. Give me one second. The roller's going to come off. Look at that. Exactly what I said. High road force these tires. I do not recommend getting the Atturo Trailblade mts at all. Now let's go over to the Toyos and we're going to show you the difference between the atturo trailblade mts. People try to cheap out on the money between a good tire. We got that otoyo mounted up. Now, we don't just do big old all terrain tires and mud tires. We do regular passenger stuff too. All right, so before we balance this thing out, let me show you the last coming that did this. Look, there's one weight there. Look at that balancing. Listen, people, y' all gotta watch where y' all take y' all stuff to, because these people don't know what the hell they doing around here at these tire shops. All right, now for the Toyo, we're gonna bounce this thing out. Yep. Just like all the other tire we got to do. First, you gotta take that damn sticker off of there. All right, so now ain't gonna be no cuts, no edits, none of that stuff on the tires like we did the ataro. Now let's see what the differences between the Toyo mt balancing out and then that atturo we just did. All right, Hear the roller about to come down again. Now, tires ain't tires. Just cause they black and round don't mean they're all the same. Now give it a second. That roller's gonna come off and we're gonna see how good this thing balances out. All right, rollers off of there. Look at that. Only an ounce and three quarters. It's got 31 pounds of force now, and we can bring that one down even more if we needed to. So for the people that tries to save money, like on venom tires or atturos, you wind up spending more money because you got all the aggravation you got to deal with. Just buy quality tires and you ain't gonna worry about none of that stuff. Let's take you around the shop. Now, like this one here is the hunter maverick machine. This is our touchless machine. You can mount any wheel up on this thing. Of course, we got the coach 70 max. We got a road force balancer there. Another road force here, the. Was that TC 39 or something like that? Yep. Another tufts machine. We got another coach 70 max and another roadforce balancing. Now this right here where a lot of shops mess up. So what they do, they put the gun to it and put a socket on there and don't even wind up, you know, screwing the lug nuts on there in at least six, seven threads. What they do, they put it on the end of the gun and just screw it right on there. They wind up damaging the studs. All right, now we're finishing the last couple. Got that one mounted up on there, and we're going to show you what these Toyos look like on this truck. All right, so if you want a set of the Toyo mts, this is what they would look like on your truck. Good aggressive tire, good aggressive tread. There's a close up of them. So this Toyo mt, they hadn't had to redesign this thing. This thing's been out for years. Still a good tire. So the Toyo MT is one of the best tires out there. The Nitto MT and the Toyo mt.
