KOH spec trail grapplers

sfrubicon

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• Oct 10, 2013

• #1

quick question, ive searched the interweb for a while and cant find the how much one of these tires weighs. Again im talking about the 40 inch K specs. if anyone knows it would be great.

 

wayoflife

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Staff member

• Oct 11, 2013

• #2

Honestly, I've looked too and can't seem to find specs on it anywhere. Maybe Discount Tire will chime in with an answer :yup:

BTW, any reason why you need to know it's weight or just curious?

 

bl17z90

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #3

Curious, is there a normal 40 inch trail grappler or are all 49 inch tg's going to be the k spec ones?


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JK12

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #4

bl17z90 said:

Curious, is there a normal 40 inch trail grappler or are all 49 inch tg's going to be the k spec ones?


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I'm pretty sure discount tire has the normal trail grappler in a 40"

 

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ChaosNein

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #5

if i remember tomorrow, i will throw one on the scale for you.

 

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rtguy1

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #6

bl17z90 said:

Curious, is there a normal 40 inch trail grappler or are all 49 inch tg's going to be the k spec ones?


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The new 40" is the only version. It is k spec.

 

JK12

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #7

rtguy1 said:

The new 40" is the only version. It is k spec.

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Hmm discount told me there were two 40" trail grappler and the k spec was a just a different rubber compound and that the k spec wasn't available to general public

 

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Chairokey

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #8

JK12 said:

Hmm discount told me there were two 40" trail grappler and the k spec was a just a different rubber compound and that the k spec wasn't available to general public

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When were you told this? The k spec has been available for a few months now

 

JK12

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #9

Chairokey said:

When were you told this? The k spec has been available for a few months now

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About a month ago

 

sfrubicon

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #10

Well good to see no one else could find it, I was starting to think my google skills were getting worse

 

sfrubicon

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #11

And just curious, wanted to see weight to compare. Plus a friend and I were talking about it yesterday and it's like when you can't remember something you should, then you have to know

 

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ChaosNein

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #12

These weight 105# PER tire

 

sfrubicon

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #13

Thanks for weighing them for me

 

Rubitron

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• Oct 11, 2013

• #14

drew@offroadevolution said:

if i remember tomorrow, i will throw one on the scale for you.

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I wish that I can work at ORE!!


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Discount Tire

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• Oct 14, 2013

• #15

JK12 said:

Hmm discount told me there were two 40" trail grappler and the k spec was a just a different rubber compound and that the k spec wasn't available to general public

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This is correct. The K-Spec is not DOT approved.

 

jeek.olllllllo

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• Oct 14, 2013

• #16

Discount Tire said:

This is correct. The K-Spec is not DOT approved.

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I though Mel had said it was on a video he posted a while back

 

sfrubicon

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• Oct 14, 2013

• #17

Well that kinda kills a lot of hype of the tire if it isn't dot approved, I thought that was the big appeal of it

 

Discount Tire

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• Oct 14, 2013

• #18

The K-Spec model is for competition use. The 40x13.50-17 Trail Grappler linked below however is DOT approved and is of course available to the general public.

40x13.50-17 Nitto Trail Grappler

 

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sfrubicon

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• Oct 14, 2013

• #19

Is the k spec considered a "sticky compound" that's why it's racing only or is there something else

 

CarsonCindy

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• Oct 14, 2013

• #20

sfrubicon said:

Well that kinda kills a lot of hype of the tire if it isn't dot approved, I thought that was the big appeal of it

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I am pretty sure that the new 40" Nitto Trail Grappler is DOT approved. Here is a pic of one of Moby's new tires showing as much:

I am pretty sure that the only difference between the K-spec 40 and the DOT 40 is the rubber compound. The K-spec is a softer compound meant for racing.

One other difference between the new 40" Trail Grappler and the other 37" and smaller trail grappler is the side lugs. The new 40 has bigger blocks as you can see here:

This is a pic of the the 37"

EDIT: What Discount Tire said