Bionic Man wrote:
In particular, my experience with the 68RFE is that it will also run 200* in normal driving conditions. The person I hear significantly lower temps from also claims 100,000 miles out of a set of Michelins so they either have/had a real special truck or are full of it. Either way, those claims are suspect at best.
Mine consistently runs 168 towing or not. It will climb a bit in some circumstances, most dramatically when I'm climbing a forest service road grade in hot weather at lower speeds, but that's outside the norm. I assume at highway speeds the temp is held in check better because of good airflow. I've never seen it get up near 200 under any circumstances. I don't know if 2012 to 2015 makes a difference or not.
FWIW, I got 20k miles on my stock Firestones and will be lucky to get 35k on my BFG AT/KO2s. Maybe I need to get some of those Michelins you're taking about.
