Best tire for driving Alaskan Highway
I have a 2015 F-150 with a Northstar Vista camper (1,500 loaded) and would like to know what your opinions are for the best tire to have for driving from Texas to Alaska. Your input will be apprecia...
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Grit dog wrote:
Soren, while I don't doubt your past experience, Cherry picking responses to provide an argument or entertainment is kinda, well, very rvnet ish. No one was talking about brodozers, but nice comparison.
I also believe you can make it to AK and back without a side arm and some nice un-macho looking baloney skins on the truck, but, umm, I don't know, being prepared for some crappy roads or having a bit tougher tires for when you accidentally tag a sharp rock from one of the countless rock slides ON the highway doesn't seem like a big stretch in feasibility to me.
I don't like changing tires anywhere but in my shop.
Sounds logical, but in 20K+ miles of actually driving in the Yukon, and AK, I really have had zero tire problems. I always assumed the low grade ST rated, imported, junk trailer tires would get me, but it just didn't happen. Not like the roads were wonderful, I bent two axles on fairly light trailers (24' 4600lb UVW) and did other damage from extreme stone chipping, to broken welds, wiring torn off an axle, etc... Another thing to consider is that the road system generally gets better, straighter, and less like it was "back in the day" with every passing year. Our first trip was nearing two decades ago, and it was far worse than the latest adventure.
