Tire Recommendation

I have put a lot of miles on the Hankook ATM towing. They wear really well. I went from the Hankook to the Nitto EXO grappler because I wanted better traction off road. I got it. The EXO is a really good tire and seems to wear well. I have 40K on mine and they are half gone. I will buy them again. I have a set of Kelly TSR on my dually. Great off road traction but they have not lasted as long as would like. The pickup runs at or over max GVW everywhere it goes, and I will be lucky to see 40K out of them. If the Hankook ATM is aggressive enough for you, I would go that route.

WyoTraveler wrote:
I like Hankook. I have about 12,000 on mine and like them. Will know more after winter and see how they do on snow. Very aggressiive tread. I have a 2008 F250. I changed my tires out at 50,000 miles. My PU came with Goodyear.

X-2 on Hankooks

I've heard same thing - the factory tires are different/cheaper compounds and yes I was expecting 60k out of these..

Michelin or BFG 3rd gen take offs I easily could get 100K out of a set of OE tires.

Last RAM Dually dumped OE General POS tires at 25K. Added MS2's they wore MUCH better. Pic at 40K width no rotation.

Need-A-Vacation wrote:
Something to remember about oem tires is the truck/ car manufacture may ask for model "X", but request the rubber compound to be different than the aftermarket model of that tire. That is why some oem tires wear out so quickly.

My tire gurus told me pretty much the same thing when we bought our daughter a used car couple -3 years ago. Stock tires and 23K and they were all down prit near the wear bars. Car is a '11 Cruze. Wanted dealer to put tires on from her old car (which were like new) ,but they wouldn't cuz not the same size. Would've worked but they they cited liability reason BS. Mentioned this to my tire shop and the above quote was said. Aftermarket tires have a higher tread depth and different compounds that what factory gets, hence the quicker wearing out of them.

FWIW, the dealer put on a set of 4 used tires off another car that had 9K on them. Daughter now has close to 40-50K miles on it (uses regular winter tires so summers aren't indicative of cars miles), but the summers will need to be replaced next year. No abnormal wear that I see and no pulling L/R.

AS for reg truck tires for this post, are all season tires avail? Seems everyone is talking about A/T's but didn't see anything about using all seasons. I will run the stock tires one more winter (11K on 'em now), and get reg snows come winter of '16-'17 and run current tires in summer only. Anyone have 18" steel rims they want to get rid of?

Something to remember about oem tires is the truck/ car manufacture may ask for model "X", but request the rubber compound to be different than the aftermarket model of that tire. That is why some oem tires wear out so quickly.

I have 30-40K on the front tires with Firestone HT's. Rears got replaced a bit ago due to having a 3/8" bolt going thru the tread. So both rears were replaced as I am about half worn out. This is on a Sprinter van, LONG WB, about 5500 empty, upwards of 8-9000 fully loaded. Mostly freeway or main 2 lane hwys from seattle south to Olympia, up and down both sides of sound to Bremerton, then up to port Angelas and port townsend a lot too. Do a minimum of 500 miles to upwards of 1000 miles a week. Put these on last fall.

Found them to be good overall in rain and dry weather. Get about 1 mpg more than the stock Continental VanDura that came stock. Also quieter too. I am hard of hearing, but could hear more road noise with initial tires vs Firestones.

Like all things great and small, you mileage may vary!

marty

Vanished wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

Me Again wrote:

Vanished wrote:
First off let me express my concern on my current tires - Firestone Transforce AT's LT275/70R18 on my 3500 SRW Cummins.. Truck only has 6500 miles on it and I rotated the tires - front is down to 12/32nd and rears had 9/32, new was 15/32nd! At this rate I won't get 20k miles out of these.. This is riduculous for a $200 'upgrade' to A/T commerical tires, and based on other reviews from Dodge owners this complaint seems quite common...

Anyways - I'm looking for a higher mileage A/T truck tire, that still gets good tread life and has some traction available.. I've run the BFG A/T KO2's before with good luck, but never towing this much and this often (13k trailer)... I was looking at the tirerack reviews as well but I'm guessing most people aren't as concerned about towing performance and wear as we are.

So - question is, what heavy duty truck tires do you recommend for towing 'heavy' 50% of the time and still having some off road traction? I'm afraid of the all terrain tires getting 'squirmy' on me and costing some significant MPG's...

Having the same tire, I am curious on what air pressure you run empty and with the trailer? Chris

Exactly and how aggressive he takes off from a start.

Agressive? With all the torque management I can't even get them to chirp from a standstill... LOL Never been spun any..
I looked thru a BUNCH of comments on tirerack from other Ram owners - seems 20-25k is normal for these tires..

That's a shame... Severe torque management and less than 20k miles on tires.

I like Michelins or BFG Goodrich Rugged Terrain 2. My last set of Michelins that came with my truck I got 43k miles. My current BFG's (E rated) look like they'll get ~50k miles. This is while running 65 psi and including several massive burnouts. :B

X2 on the Cooper AT3's

Vanished wrote:
I looked thru a BUNCH of comments on tirerack from other Ram owners - seems 20-25k is normal for these tires..

Guess I will start throwing all my change in a tub so I am ready for tires in two years. New way to assure tires don't age out! Chris