General tires are JUNK!!!!!

Cummins12V98 wrote:
I am disgusted with the tires that came on my 2011 Ram Dually. General Ameritrack made in Mexico.

I have 23K on them and they are more than 1/2 worn out. If that was not bad enough the last couple days the front end started acting up and today it got real bad. I checked the tires and there was about a 1/2" high raised area on the tread of the passenger front tire.

I looked up General distributors and Discount Tire was listed. The sales guy measured all the tires and since one of the other tires were more than 2/32" thinner than the others he said he could only warrant the bad tire if I bought the other.

No way was I going to throw good money after bad. I went to Costco and got a price for just over $1,800 for 6 Michelins. Called Discount and got a better grade Michelin for about $350 less. I was very surprised. So I told them to get them in and I will have them installed tomorrow.

Time will tell but I always get over 100K on a set of Michelins.

I tried to get Dave Smith to swap the POS tires for Michelins when I bought it but they said they all come with Generals.

Now the truck will be the way it should have been from the factory.

I'm surprised that this is news to you. All manufactures really don't put that good of tires on anyways. We've had the same thing with our cars and other trucks from Toyota and Ford with Goodyears, Michlins, etc... The original Generals on my 2011 Ram 3500 dually were worn out and replaced at 38K with Goodyear Duratracs before winter hit six months ago. I kept the rotated and had two alignments done. They wore evenly and I never had a flat or tire issue.