Tire Recommendation
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...
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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?
