14" All Terrain tires

[FRQ]

I've found some outdated threads on the subject, but was wondering what 14" all terrain tires people here are using in 2017/2018? While I'm at it, I figured it might be useful to document what i've discovered so far after a few hours of searching. Brace yourselves, this is going to be a long one...

I hoped being in Europe might actually be to my advantage for once since we have lots of smaller cars with 14" wheels on our roads, but to my surprise, in terms of A/T tires, it's slim pickings. The obvious "solution" seems to be a regular winter tire.

All I could find in mainstream brand A/T type tires are 165/75R14 BRIDGESTONE DUELER A/T 693 II, but would prefer 185/60 or 185/65, 195 seems a bit wide.



Some out of the box thinking later, I ended up looking at light commercial truck and rally gravel tires.

Fedima Winter M+S 185/75R14, 75€


Fedima F/OR 175/65R14, 55€


Fedima F4 175/60R14, 120€


Fedima F5 Rallye 185/60R14, 103€


Malatesta M35 185/60R14, 105€


Malatesta Polaris 185/60R14, 50€


Nortenha N4 185/60R14, 85€


DMACK DMG3 185/65R14, 120€


Downsides to most of these:
- severely reinforced sidewalls, affecting ride
- probably LOTS of rolling noise
- not available at a regular tire shop
- depending on type, soft compound (low mileage)

Remember about 5 years ago, when you could still get BFG A/T in 14"? Good times... Really hoping some members here can steer me in the direction of some "regular" 14" A/Ts!

[Petros]

those aggressive blockly treads may be good off road or on snow and ice, but will be very rough and noisy on pavement. An open tread with lots of fine lines (sipping) in the larger tread blocks would be your best bet (like the first and seventh ones pictured). They should wear better too since the tread blocks are a bit more flexible.

[FRQ]

My daily driver is a HJ61 60 series running 31x10.5 BFG A/T KO2, so I'm used to a bit of noise, but I think all listed tires here will be worse (other than 1 and 7 as you said).

I plan on running 2 sets of tires though, one summer and one off road/winter, which is why I'm looking at more aggressive thread patterns, but I'm having a hard time convincing myself to fork over more than 50€ a corner for a 14" tire...

[KZ750]

Here in the US we have general grabber AT-2s in a size 14. I’m pretty sure they’re the only ones available now. 27” tall
I used to have a set of BFG AT 195-75r14 on my tercel