Finally got my new shoes on my Maverick + other mods

[Don's Maverick XL]

Have had the tires and wheels for a month waiting for my truck to come in picked it up Monday got new shoes on tell me what you think.

Mods list:
Tri-fold tonnaue cover
Rear window decal
Tailgate shock
Hood shocks
Maverick t-shirts for seat covers
Double cup holder in back seat
Center console padded cover.
Center console tray
Under lid tray for dashboard

Coming:
Mabett side lights/ turn signals

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[Decayed]

Looks great! The trail terrains are on my short list; how do you like them so far?

 

[Uglyoffroad]

Looks good. The chrome with the blue go well together!

 

[Don's Maverick XL]

Looks great! The trail terrains are on my short list; how do you like them so far?

They are great got a good deal at discount tire

 

[Don's Maverick XL]

Looks good. The chrome with the blue go well together!

Thanks but they are not really chrome they are virtual chrome they are aluminum wheels painted with chrome paint made by Drag

 

[Bobby Chapman]

Size and where did you get them, NICE

 

[littleMaverick]

Second that question - size and where did you get them. I went to the Drag website and nothing found for the hybrid

 

[not null]

Are the holes in the rims large enough to put your foot into? I'm on the lookout for 17" rims I can use to climb into the bed.

 

[Dmat]

These were one of my earlier picks for wheels too but I realized I wanted something with a little more beef to them.

 

[CurtisB]

Have had the tires and wheels for a month waiting for my truck to come in picked it up Monday got new shoes on tell me what you think.

Mods list:
Tri-fold tonnaue cover
Rear window decal
Tailgate shock
Hood shocks
Maverick t-shirts for seat covers
Double cup holder in back seat
Center console padded cover.
Center console tray
Under lid tray for dashboard

Coming:
Mabett side lights/ turn signals

I like the chrome rims with the white lettering.

 

[Mav truck lover]

Lovin it and I am partial to the blue and chrome! Nice job.

 

[Walter56]

Way to dress up an XL looks great

 

[Bobby Chapman]

I have always told my wife, shoes make the Lady, as tires and rims(shoes) make the Vehicle . Love the Atlas Blue Metallic. Kind of partial to it.

 

[LIL BLUE]

Have had the tires and wheels for a month waiting for my truck to come in picked it up Monday got new shoes on tell me what you think.

Mods list:
Tri-fold tonnaue cover
Rear window decal
Tailgate shock
Hood shocks
Maverick t-shirts for seat covers
Double cup holder in back seat
Center console padded cover.
Center console tray
Under lid tray for dashboard

Coming:
Mabett side lights/ turn signals

LOve the seat covers- what size are the T-shirts....the chrome paint on the wheel rims...did you buy the paint and then took to paint shop to have done? Did you repaint the steel wheel rims that came with the truck or are they new rims.....Let me know....interested..Lil Blue

 

[Bil13h]

Looks great! The trail terrains are on my short list; how do you like them so far?

Size and where did you get them, NICE

Second that question - size and where did you get them. I went to the Drag website and nothing found for the hybrid

Personally, there is so much information out there on these Trail Terrain style tires and they are really niche use-case. On paper they seem great but overall their hydroplane and wet performance is usually really bad which may or may not matter to you, the tread patterns are much too fine to really be useful on trail and gravel, let alone anything more rugged than that, but they usually also don't perform as well on road as a proper touring tire, and weigh more from what I have seen.

So, really, you aren't getting much of any benefit. If you intend on hardly ever going off the beaten path, it would be better to stay with a touring tire of relative quality that is just rugged enough to not pop from a slightly less rounded rock.

I ended up going with a Firestone Destination AT2 235/65/R17 and that weighs 2lbs per tire more than the OEM Continental ProContact 225/65/R17 and has been less than .4 L / 100kms distance so far in 3000kms. I went from 5.7L/100kms across 75,000kms lifetime and the same for the 5,000km trip it was on prior to purchase, to 6.1 in the 3,000 I have put on since. These feel like they are holding onto the earth with so much power, especially in the wet and gravel, where I now have to learn how to handle the truck again because everything I used to do to compensate the previous tires from making me soil myself, is now over-correcting and causing new issues that I have had to adjust because these actually grip the road, gravel, dirt, rocks, mud, whatever I have done with it so far, it has been great. My OEM tires slipped on wet grass. I have seen nothing but trouble out of Trail Terrains for what their naming suggests they can do. If you want them just for looks, that seems to be the play.

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