If you’ve got a 4WD-equipped light truck, Jeep or SUV and like to go off-road now and then, all-terrain tires are great. They’re durable and deliver great traction and control in mud, gravel, loose dirt, sand and snow. But if you are keen to indulge in more extreme off-roading in deep, soupy mud or wish to take your truck rock crawling across logs, obstacles, boulders and steep grades with aired-down tires, all-terrain tires are likely to fall short of your expectations. That’s exactly where a mud-terrain tire becomes your only savior, to get the job done.

Mud-terrain tires are designed with a tougher tread compound, featuring a robust internal construction, a deeper and more aggressive block tread design, and a shoulder with wraparound lugs that extend down onto the sidewall for better lateral traction (great for clawing out of deep ruts). They’re also designed for durability, traction and control when used aired-down for rock crawling. The Versatyre Mud Terrain is a great example of a mud-terrain tire that checks many of those boxes for you and is not too expensive to maintain.

But why take our word for it at face value? Let’s go in for a closer look with this Versatyre Mud Terrain review:

Features and Benefits

Here are a few of the innovations and features that make the Versatyre Mud Terrain a great performer on heavy off-road tracks and enable it to provide high value:

• Reinforced casing with cut-and-chip resistant tread formulation for rough use
• 2 or 3-ply sidewall
• Aggressive tread pattern with high void ratio to easily eject mud, gravel and debris, protecting the casing while ensuring there’s always a clear section of tire to dig in as the wheel turns
• The symmetric tread pattern is computer-tuned to help keep road noise low
• Staggered tread blocks with V-shaped side biters at the shoulder, extending down onto the sidewall

Pros and Cons

PROS:

• Unbeatable traction in deep mud, loose dirt
• Innovative mud-terrain design
• Tough construction and tread formulation
• Good for aired-down performance

CONS:

• No treadwear warranty
• Not 3 Peak Mountain Snowflake rated for severe winter service

SimpleTire’s view on Versatyre Mud Terrain tires

When it comes to mud-terrain tires for 4WD trucks, there are plenty to choose from but it’s our opinion that the Versatyre Mud Terrain brings a lot to the game. Are you familiar with SimpleScore? The SimpleScore rating system is what the SimpleTire team developed to give you a quick at-a-glance idea of a tire’s strengths and weaknesses. We look at a tire’s specs, reviews, and other data points, then distill that information down to a numerical value for the categories of traction, handling and longevity for any given tire, along with an overall average SimpleScore. For the Versatyre Mud Terrain, the numbers come out as follows:

Traction: 8.0 Handling: 8.4 Longevity: 7.6 Overall average SimpleScore: 8.0

With a high tread depth , the Versatyre Mud Terrain is designed for long wear as well as dependable traction. Its mud-terrain tread features staggered lugs, V-shaped crest sidebiters at the shoulder, and “chisel”-shaped lugs in a stairstep pattern for good handling on or off pavement. The Mud Terrain is also designed for ease of tire rotations and is surprisingly quiet on the highway (as mud-terrain tires go). This is also a tire that looks great on a variety of trucks, especially with a lift kit for extra ground clearance. Granted, the Versatyre Mud Terrain doesn’t come with a manufacturer’s treadwear warranty, but most mud-terrain tires don’t. And no, the Mud Terrain doesn’t have the 3PMSF certification for winter traction, but it’s a capable performer in deep snow nonetheless. We’d recommend the Versatyre Mud Terrain wholeheartedly for anyone who needs that level of performance for off-road conditions.

Vehicles the Versatyre Mud Terrain is a replacement tire for

• Chevrolet Trailblazer
• Ford Bronco
• Nissan Titan
• Toyota Land Cruiser