Switch to 19.5" wheels & tires
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F350/RR wrote:
I have a set of 5 Rickson steel 19.5” Wheels with Continental Hybrid load range H tires. Wheels rated 5000 lbs and tires 4800 lbs on an 2016 F350 truck.
Tires took about 1500-1800 miles to settle in. They were a little squirmy to start but not something that bothered me. I have the road tire but this tire is also available in an all- terrain version which are noisier. I do 5 tire rotation about every 6000 mi. The empty truck rides like one would expect with a truck tire. I put the OEM LT tires back on for the winter unless we decide to go south to warm up.
The 6000 mile tire rotation makes even less sense than the 3000 mile oil change. 6000 miles is a very small fraction of the expected life of the tire. Next if there is an issue causing rapid tire wear, rotating tires is not the solution and will only cover up the problem. I can see a tire rotation of maybe something like 30000 miles. Actually I have often gone several times that number of miles and never done a rotation. My current tires are not 19.5 commercial tires and they wear relatively quickly. I move the rear tires to the front and replace the rear tires with new tires roughly every 30-40k miles.
