Mud Tire Price Tracker

Why this page exists

Every comparison on this site quotes a price, and every one of those prices is stamped with the date it was read. That is honest, and it is also a slowly rotting asset — a figure captured in September is misleading by spring, and nobody goes back to check.

So we are going back to check, on a schedule, and publishing what we find. Same tires, same sizes, same retailer, re-read monthly. Over a year that becomes something that does not currently exist anywhere: a record of what mud-terrain tires actually cost over time, rather than what they cost on the day someone happened to write an article.

What is tracked

Two baskets. The first is six mud-terrains in LT285/70R17, the most commonly compared size on this site and a real fitment on a Tacoma, a Wrangler and an F-150 alike. The second is the BFGoodrich KM3 across 33, 35 and 37 inches on 17-inch wheels, which is the cost curve people actually feel when they size up.

All readings from the same retailer’s model pages, so month-to-month movement reflects price rather than a change of source. Prices exclude fitting, balancing and disposal.

What the baseline already shows

In one size, on one day, from one retailer, the spread across six tires is $170 per tire — $680 across a set of four. The Milestar is 61% of the price of the Toyo. Our budget comparison goes through what that difference actually buys, and the answer is not tread depth.

The size curve is steeper still. The same KM3 runs $404.99 in a 33, $528.99 in a 35 and $585.99 in a 37 — $181 per tire between the smallest and largest, or $905 across five including a spare. That is before wheels, lift, gears or labour, which our 37-inch guide covers.

How the readings are taken

Each month the same nine listings are re-read and the figures appended to a stored history. Where a price cannot be read — a page moved, a size discontinued, a retailer blocking automated requests — the reading is recorded as missing rather than carried forward from last month. A gap in the data is information; a stale number pretending to be current is not.

We publish the retailer and the date on every figure, as we do everywhere else on this site. The methodology page covers the general rule; the only thing different here is the frequency.

A caution about what this measures

This is one retailer’s listed price, not a market average. We know from our own research that the same tire in the same size can differ by 32% between retailers on the same day — a Maxxis RAZR MT in 35×12.50R20 was $487.91 at one and $369.35 at another on 10 September 2026.

So read this page for the trend, not the absolute. If you are buying today, shop the size across several retailers; the spread between them is routinely larger than the spread between brands.