Time to select NEW tires
Happy Memorial Day to you all, I need to get some recommendations for selecting my next set of tires for my Tow vehicle. The Vehicle is my trusty 2001 F350 Crew Cab Dually (with Air Bags) powered by ...
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Compared to the OPs tires, comparable Sailuns are only marginally cheaper. As Sailuns are about the least expensive tires out there and Transforce are also value priced.
They are however an option and appreciate hearing honest reviews on them. Especially as they are reasonably priced. As there are several brands in the same price range (discounting the super chinesium ones ).
OP didn’t mention price and Falkens are about the same price as the Firestones. Actually a bit more expensive likely.
up here they are almost 100 bucks a tire cheaper if you call that marginal, but my comparison was to the BFG's they replaced and they were 1/3rd the cost so I saved almost 2000 bucks switching to them. the other point was they are a much better tire than the BFG's I had (I was a die hard BFG fan before I found them) I had Falken wild peaks on my bronco, I wasn't impressed, and changed to the cooper discoverer road and trail as I have a odd ball tires size or I would have went with the sailun on it also, probably not the same tires you are thinking of.
the sailun run quiet, are snowflake rated and I have got pretty much twice the life out of them than I got out of my BFG All terrain ta's. I am pretty hard on tires as I still drive normal towing my 40 foot 5th so it tends to scrub rear tires pretty good, but the sailuns have handled it like champs.
$100/tire IS significant. Not like that in the States. I did a quick look before I posted and south of the Maple Syrup Curtain, it looked like $20-40/tire.
You may live way up in BC but this is why so many border dwelling Canucks drive south to buy “stuff.”
Well, at least until recently when many of them got offended….lol.oh you know it. I am 3 hours from the boarder and I have been tempted to go down a few times haha, problem is our dollar is sitting around $0.73US where historically it is above $0.90 or even higher than the US dollar. so the last 10 ish years anything imported from the US is way more expensive and to drive down all your saving is shipping, but that is a total rip off from the US also. if I can get places to ship USPS then it isn't bad as they only charge a 5 buck boarder crossing fee where UPS charges 30 to 40 bucks.
its not so much they got offended it that one young lady was sent to a detention place for no reason and was release a week or two later, the American boarder guards have set up a precheck and are searching 100% of the vehicles heading north before the Canadian customs checkpoint so people are just tired of the hassle and extra time and BS searches that are not driven by anything but political garbage, I love the US so don't get me wrong.. for 20 years I spent more time down there than in Canada while I was in the military, but with the current issues, why would I go there when I have many more unpopulated and beautiful places I can visit until this blows over.
