Tires---Ouch

I really liked the BFG KO AT's down to about the 50% wear out point. They are in my view one of the best AT tires on ice in that first 50%. Probably do to all the sipes and cuts they just do a great job planting the pickup on snow packed/icy roads. My issue was how fast they would wear out. Every year (for 9 years) I would replace two of the tires due to wear, right before Winter. It seems like towing really wore them down fast. Not great cutting fresh snow, even when new, but decent enough.

I’ve been super happy with my Cooper tires. Reasonable price, good traction, good wear.

I would get 100k out of BFG 3rd gen take offs and still have tread left.

FishOnOne wrote:

monkey44 wrote:
BFG Has been our brand consistantly since the 1980's ... We also try to save money when practical, but our lives and those of our kids and grandkids ride on our tires.

Tires, whether on a truck or on a trailer or on a MH, is not the place we'd choose save a buck. Didn't scrimp on MC tires either. :)

I was a fan of BFG AT tires and had excellent durability from them until I purchased a set of BFG AT 2 tires. My truck exhibited death wobble 2 times with them and was lucky to get 40k miles out of them. We don't even use them on our farm/ranch trucks anymore. Crazy thing is BFG is owned by Michelin which doesn't make any sense.

I know, but have bought two sets recently - four each time - and have no issues. I know it kills to have one-two fail. But over the lifetime of BFG and my trucks - forty years ... have had only one bad tire, a rear SW 2500HD - after several thousand miles - and BFG replaced TWO so wear would match on the partner tire. Can't complain :)

monkey44 wrote:
BFG Has been our brand consistantly since the 1980's ... We also try to save money when practical, but our lives and those of our kids and grandkids ride on our tires.

Tires, whether on a truck or on a trailer or on a MH, is not the place we'd choose save a buck. Didn't scrimp on MC tires either. :)

Well there’s scrimping and then there’s SCRIMPING. Save for some no name chinesium or tiawanesium tires, I strongly question brand loyalty based on the “safety” of one brand name tire vs another.
It’s simple economics. If ANY tire company made a tire that didn’t have an industry standard factor of safety ( which is a very conservative FoS) they would be bankrupt within a year. Doesn’t take many deaths associated with bad tires to make that happen.
Traction, treadwear, even longevity can be improved or debated between mfgs.
But the dramatic “for the love of the children” stuff is subjective, not objective.

Cummins12V98 wrote:

monkey44 wrote:
BFG Has been our brand consistantly since the 1980's ... We also try to save money when practical, but our lives and those of our kids and grandkids ride on our tires.

Tires, whether on a truck or on a trailer or on a MH, is not the place we'd choose save a buck. Didn't scrimp on MC tires either. :)

Never scrimped on tires and with way over one million miles under my belt I have had ONE blowout.

One blowout? Didn’t you just start a thread about losing more than one tire just on your trailer in the last year or however long?

monkey44 wrote:
BFG Has been our brand consistantly since the 1980's ... We also try to save money when practical, but our lives and those of our kids and grandkids ride on our tires.

Tires, whether on a truck or on a trailer or on a MH, is not the place we'd choose save a buck. Didn't scrimp on MC tires either. :)

I was a fan of BFG AT tires and had excellent durability from them until I purchased a set of BFG AT 2 tires. My truck exhibited death wobble 2 times with them and was lucky to get 40k miles out of them. We don't even use them on our farm/ranch trucks anymore. Crazy thing is BFG is owned by Michelin which doesn't make any sense.

monkey44 wrote:
BFG Has been our brand consistantly since the 1980's ... We also try to save money when practical, but our lives and those of our kids and grandkids ride on our tires.

Tires, whether on a truck or on a trailer or on a MH, is not the place we'd choose save a buck. Didn't scrimp on MC tires either. :)

Never scrimped on tires and with way over one million miles under my belt I have had ONE blowout.

BFG Has been our brand consistantly since the 1980's ... We also try to save money when practical, but our lives and those of our kids and grandkids ride on our tires.

Tires, whether on a truck or on a trailer or on a MH, is not the place we'd choose save a buck. Didn't scrimp on MC tires either. :)

humblerb wrote:
Just do like I did and get free tires. Had 36,000 miles on my 2018 RAM 2500 and about 4,000 tread left.
Just bought a 2021 RAM 3500.
Tires are like new (5700 miles).
:)

There is a reason many (including me) pull the OEM tire off as soon as you get it. They are typically garbage if you do anything off the highway. Even the All Terrain tires typically suck. I have in the past had the new pickup dropped off at the tire shop before I even took possession of it. The only pickup I did not do that with was a 2018 ZR2. Those GY's were good to go from the start.

If you need or want to save money on tires, then take offs work. Personally, I will save money somewhere else.