Typical tread life?
I know that most folks tend to replace tires by age, but if age was not an issue, what would expected tire tread life be? I am at almost 90K on my 4year old Goodyears 275x70x22.5 rear tires and they...
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Koop wrote:Cbones wrote:mpierce wrote:
Running 22.5's on semis and trailers, loaded to legal max over 90% of the time, I would get 300,000 on the tires, as long as nothing damaged them, and I kept them balanced and aligned. I balanced them, then put BalanceMasters on, and would align 1-2 times a year. Using Crossfires on the duals to keep the pressure exactly the same in both tires helped a lot. 2# pressure difference in the tires on a pair of duallys means one tire is going farther than the other, thus causing the rubber to scrub off.
That is serious mileage. What time frame would that be? I think I would be happy to make it to half that on mine.
He's talking about OTR truck operations that can run up mileage in a hurry. My friends in the trucking industry tell me that 250,000 to 300,000 miles in a tractor rig running full time is typical.
Correct. Running team, my wife and I ran a ND, MN CA, AZ route every week. 5200 miles a week, 51 weeks a year. We took Christmas week off! No load.
Just not sure why MH tire wear is so bad? Wearing out under 100k, when the same tires, with max legal loads, run 3 times as long on a truck? I understand aging out on a MH, just not the short tire life for mileage.
