Tire choice

I like Toyo from Les Schwab and Coopers. They get over 60,000 miles a set and are quiet. I rarely run the rear tires at 80 psi, almost never.

Michelin tires are over rated in my opinion. Can't get more than 32K out of them with proper air and rotation on my 2007 HD 2500 Chevy. Had a four year old set and the sidewalls let go pulling my 5th wheel in El Centro on a Sunday. Only place to buy tires that day was Sears with more Michelin LT tires. Not a happy camper but had to keep moving. They were much better years ago but the new ones don't impress me. Now I am not sure what to purchase either. Firestone use to have the best tires with Steeltex radials but they had been discontinued years ago. The new truck came with Firestone Transforce so will see what they will do.
Curly

Bionic Man wrote:

v2k wrote:
I run 80 lbs in the tires. I will have to try running with less air when not pulling.
I am leaning toward the Continental Terrain A/T tire from Discount tire. I was hoping to get some reviews.

Every tire is going to ride rough at 80 psi when empty. Your current brand is not the problem. Your running psi is.

But hey the tire says 80psi.

v2k wrote:
I run 80 lbs in the tires. I will have to try running with less air when not pulling.
I am leaning toward the Continental Terrain A/T tire from Discount tire. I was hoping to get some reviews.

Every tire is going to ride rough at 80 psi when empty. Your current brand is not the problem. Your running psi is.

monkey44 wrote:
Be careful running too low on HD "E" tires, if you do, the sidewalls might crack and come apart while driving. I run mine at 65 empty and 75 hauling the TC. That seems to work fine, and I get a nice ride at both pressures. My truck wears BFG 285/70 "E" shoes ... :)

This might be true for the xx.5" tires. Not sure about even inch tires.the bead is shaped different on xx.5" tired. So running low psi effects them more than even inch tires.

Maryy

v2k wrote:
I run 80 lbs in the tires. I will have to try running with less air when not pulling.
I am leaning toward the Continental Terrain A/T tire from Discount tire. I was hoping to get some reviews.

I have a 2500 and I run 50 front 45 rear when the truck is empty.
Makes a HUGE difference in the ride vs 80 psi.

I have driven 85-87 mph for hours for thousands and thousands of miles on 5-6 different brands of tires on this truck and never had a single tire issue running at the lower tire pressures empty.

I now have Michelin Agilis CrossClimate tires and they are hands down the best tires I'v ever had on my truck.

link Agilis® CrossClimate®

I've had Hancook, BFG, Cooper, Big O (Cooper), Yokohama and now these Michelins.

I've got the Pep Boy brand of Coopers on my 2500 Duramax. Seem OK.

I had Firestones until I had a blow out left front when towing my 5th wheel. Found they rotted in between the tread, I have no idea why.

monkey44 wrote:
Be careful running too low on HD "E" tires, if you do, the sidewalls might crack and come apart while driving. I run mine at 65 empty and 75 hauling the TC. That seems to work fine, and I get a nice ride at both pressures. My truck wears BFG 285/70 "E" shoes ... :)

Uhhhh, nope. Not a thing.

Any doubt about Michelin tires cracking in the sidewall, just google Michelin sidewall cracking, and you will have more reading then you will care to read. I didn't need 20K to find out on a couple sets of Michelin tires . I didn't learn my lesson on the first set :S.

Bob E. wrote:
I have Firestone TransForce AT's on my truck ('13 Ram 2500) and most of my driving is just running around empty. So I drop rear pressures down to about 50psi. When I'm loaded or towing the camper, I up the pressures to 80psi per the sidewall max pressure. I'm on my 3rd set and got 50,000miles out of each of the first two sets (which is why I keep buying them)...and probably could have squeezed a bit more but snow was coming.

I had the OE Firestone Transforce HT's ,and I didn't get 30 K out of them on my 2014 Ram 3500. rotated every 5K . Many reports of terrible mileage out of the Firestone Transforce. You must have the touch :B