About
Who writes this
Mud Tires is written and maintained by the Mud Tires Editorial Team. This page says what the work actually consists of and, just as importantly, what it does not.
Cole Harlan
We compile and audit the published specifications behind mud-terrain tires. That is the whole job description, and we want to be precise about it, because the phrase “tire review site” usually implies something we are not doing.
We do not test tires. Mud Tires has never run a tread-wear test, a braking test, or a noise measurement, and nothing on this site is presented as our own measurement. The methodology page states this in more detail and we would rather you read it than take our word here.
What the work actually is
Every figure published here is traced to one of two places: a manufacturer’s own specification, or a third-party rating platform. Each one is recorded with the date it was retrieved, so you can check whether it still says what we say it said. Research and drafting are assisted by AI tools; every figure is checked against that dated source before it is published. The ideas are ours, though: reconciling spec sheets that disagree, the monthly price tracker, and refusing to rank tires on data I don’t have are choices the editorial team made, not a tool.
The useful part is the reconciliation. Manufacturers publish a great deal, and a surprising amount of it disagrees: with a competitor’s figures, with a rating platform, and sometimes with the marketing copy printed beside it on the same page. Finding those contradictions and documenting them is what this site is actually for.
The same principle drives the price tracker. Tire prices move, published prices go stale quietly, and almost nobody records what a tire cost a year ago. We take a dated reading every month so that in a year there is a record worth having.
What I will not do
We will not describe a tire as though we have driven it. We will not fill a gap in a manufacturer’s data from memory or from forum consensus. Where a manufacturer publishes nothing, the page says so. And we will not rank tires on data we do not have. Inventing a ranking would be easy and it would make the page worse.
Corrections
If a number here is wrong, or a source has changed since we recorded it, we want to know. Corrections are made to the page itself with the date updated, not quietly. The fastest way to reach us is through the contact details in the footer.
See also: how we test and compare · privacy policy