The different types of tyres available for 4x4's - HT, AT and MT

Four wheel drives are a big thing, and there's a wide variety of tyres to fit them. But what the heck is the difference between HT, AT and MT? Well, to start with they stand for Highway Terrain, All Terrain and Mud Terrain, but we'll go into the differences more in this video.

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- G'day and welcome back to Tyre Review and today we're gonna talk about the sort of tyre that you can get for your four wheel drive. And, to talk about that, we've got Captain Leeson over here, our tyre and wheel guru. And, Leeson, what sort of four wheel tyres do we got here in front of us today?

- Okay, cool. So, today we have, starting over there with you, we've got the highway terrain tyre. Moving over to what they call an all terrain and then, we have a mud terrain. So, HT, AT, MT.

- Cool. So, highway terrains are good for pretty much on the road, all the time. Though, you can do a little bit off road within gravel tracks, sand, that sort of stuff. Little bit, but they're a nice quite tyre, they're a comfortable tyre, and so they're really meant for four wheel drive tyres, four wheel drive cars that spend most of their time on the road. All terrain tyres, they're a bit of a blend between the two. They're for, you know, if you take your car to work during the week and then you go out off road on the weekend. So, they've got a much deeper tread. So you can see, that's about a finger nail worth there, versus half a finger nail worth there. So they're gonna be able to bite into the terrain a lot better and they'll deal better with sand and mud and rock and all that sort of stuff. So, they're all around tougher tyre. The mud terrain, that's pretty much for your weekend warrior. They're gonna be a lot nosier than these two tyres. So, these two tyres... This one's gonna be marginally nosier than this one. But this one, particularly once they get a bit of wear on them, most dirt different mud terrains patterns get fairly noisy.

- They do.

- Yeah, so.

- You get a bit of a howl coming down the road sometimes when you hear them coming.

- That's right.

- But you know, that's for their intended application, which is in the mud.

- Yeah.

- Perfect.

- So, you can see here, these massive gaps between the tread locks and just really good for biting into all sorts of different terrain. And, they're also gonna have heavier build. So, I almost threw my back out lifting this, where as this one here is quite light and it's even, it's got wheel. So, really your choice depends on what your car is going to be used for. You'll get probably, you'll get a heck a lot of use out of an all terrain, because you can use that for everything, where as the mud terrain, is more for your weekend warrior, sort of, you know, pucker up.

- Yep, loves the abuse.

- That's right, chuck it at it.

- Yes.

- And I think that's about it.

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