Truck Tires

CTDiesel

Where are your standards set, as high as NASA for the tires on the space shuttles?

The OE's on my last truck were BFG and lasted a long time and were great. They were on an 03 Ram 2500. Aside from my first truck all my rigs have been 3/4 or 1 ton, with tires capable of heavy loads in all weather conditions.

What I meant by OE's was the whole tire/wheel combo, mainly for the newer OE wheels which are leagues ahead in looks vs the OE's from back in the day.

Inner10

[QUOTE][What I meant by OE's was the whole tire/wheel combo/QUOTE]

Sorry I though you just meant the boots, typically most vehicles are sold with very low quality tires which have a very short lifespan.

Aluminum rims? Clean em and bead seal em.

Or did you happen to go to a hack shop like Canadian Tire where they always leak at the valve stem.

CTDiesel

I dunno, maybe so on the half tons but I'm big into the HD truck segment and I've seen OE tires last well beyond 50-60k when properly maintained.

XanadooLTD

pulling 14k trailer you wont. Especially diesel. I bought new SIerra Diesel a year ago and the bridgestones are bald. Had to get new A/T today.

CTDiesel

Maybe so, but any tire's life is going to decrease with more load more often.

XanadooLTD

tru dat

hughjazz

Hilti makes at's now?......

CTDiesel

Also I don't see where the diesel makes that much of a difference on tire wear when pulling a 14k +/- trailer. Unless you mean that the engines are heavier, about 8-900 or so lbs on the V8's and the Cummins at around 1200.

Jack A. Trades

neat- I was wondering what happened to hi-tech retreads. Cool to see that they are alive under a different name.

My tire experiences are as follows:
kumho- cheap average wear
bfgs - expensive, excellent wear
goodyear - midrange, wear varies
procomp - cheap, poor wear

Dan_Watson

Tread Wrights came this am, they look great, beefy tire, bf goodrich sidewalls.

Hopefully installed tomorrow am.

Dan_Watson

TreadWrights awesome...

Just Tires....assholes...whined the whole time that the tires are heavy...took 3 and a half hrs this am and the alignment is still way off

BobsLandscaping

I love Tread Wrights, and they are flippin heavy.

XanadooLTD

I think it is the start stop. In v8 gas you ease into driving. Diesel seems to spin tires off of the start. Thats what i heard.

dougger222

I don't know. On the 70K and 80K mile BFG's quite of few of those miles were towing the dump trailers. More miles were towing the fish house, camper and boats though.

If you think about it towing a trailer may actually make your front tires last longer on a diesel because with more tounge weight you get less weight on the front wheels.

As far as towing the dump trailer that job goes to the dually. Once you tow big with a dually you don't go back to a srw. This morning didn't have a problem keeping up with traffic at 70 mph with the DRW and loaded dump trailer. You can load the trailer very poorly and still have a lot of stability with the DRW. You put too much weight in the back of the trailer with a SRW and you better hang onto the wheel very tightly and keep it under 60 mph.

Rotating tires helps a lot for longevity. The tires that aren't rotated won't last as long as rotated tires.

BCConstruction

Each company who makes tires has a specialty tire they are known for being good on. Goodyear have great high performance road tires, Toyo the same and also Michelin, BFG great off road tires, Pirelli great cross over tires and so on. It all depends on your needs for a tire. But never get sucked into the OE tires are no good. I have seen many people say that the OE tires are of lower quality than the ones from a tire shop as they are not. I know a guy who is a quality control tech for Michelin and he says that it used to be like that many years ago but now the tire companys are so worried about a law suit that they make sure that all pass the minimum inspections which are way above what we would put any tire through. Ford even have a deal with the tire companys that they get the best of the bunch as they dont want any future lawsuits from bad tires.

Inner10

High torque vehicles seem to eat up tires fast when you really put your foot into it.

Have you tried all thoes tires? I've had a much different expierience.

BCConstruction

I have had a few of the good known tires, I used to have the goodyear eagle f1's, michelin pilot exalto 2's, Yokohama parada spec 2's and i am now using the pirelli scorpion atr's which is my frist cross over tires and so far all the tires above have functioned extremly well. The ATR's come with the truck and i was a bit worried about how good they were going to be after reading some reviews about the STR's but the ATR's are a totally different beast. They aint let me down on one bad surface yet and dry condition performance is unreal for a crossover tire. They are a failry low profile truck tire though so some may not like the low sidewalls but the ride is the best i have ever felt in a truck and extremly quite. def gonna go with them when they need changeing.

Tellurideroof

I ran cooper st's on my work trucks and they lasted for well lets see..... almost 90k on the 1500 z71, on the 2500 about 75k. currently i am running procomp xtreme mud terrains. the day after i got them i drove from ohio to colorado, and had no problems at all, i have been to moab, ut and trail road with a bunch of jeeps over slick rock, or not so slick rock, i live where it snows in feet not inches, and my drive required 4wheel drive just to get up it. The tires clean out nicely and they don't hydroplane. Road noise is tollerable, but that is a small price to pay.. check out offroaders dot com. They have great reviews

strathd

Bought Uniroyal liberators for my 2-wheel drive F-250 last winter so far they have been great.

This is off topic but I used cooper tires for years being they are made here in Findlay, Ohio. Last year Cooper was threatening to move their plant. So the city offered free water, huge tax breaks, free this, free that.

The city's view was once they leave they won't be back so let's keep them here. So our (my) city tax dollars are going to keep these 1500 employees employed. I will add that they have one of the strongest unions I have ever seen. Unskilled workers average 60-70k a year and up !

Most locals think it was a ploy but the city was unwilling to gamble.
I will buy Cooper tires no more.

Dan_Watson