New Tahrz For The F450
At 5.5 years old, and 56K miles, the outside shoulders on the front tires were getting thin. I considered moving them to the rear, and moving the two best rear tires to the front, but after looking the rear tires over carefully, I found that one had a cut in the tread area that had sliced one of the lugs about halfway off. The cut wasn’t any deeper than the tread groves, but if I finished cutting the lug off I’d probably be able to hear and feel it. No telling when that happened, as the cut was almost unnoticeable. Probably from one of the gravel roads I drive on. I’d bet I had been driving on it a while.
The tires are 225/70R19.5’s, and it came with Continental HSR steer tires on the front and rear axles. I’d prefer to have drive tires on the rear, so I bought four new Continental HDR+ tires from TiresDirect.net. @ $345 ea, free shipping/no tax. Nobody local could touch that price. Discount Tire would match the price, but they couldn’t mount that size yet, and I’d have to pay sales tax.
They came in quickly, delivered by FedEx. The date codes were all first week of October. I actually emailed them before ordering to see how old the tires were, and they responded quickly saying they just got them in, and they were still hot and sticky! :W
I had them mounted yesterday. The two inner rear tires were moved to the front. They still have about 1/4” of tread left. They’ll be good for another year or so.
The new rear tires have a good 1/2” of tread.
These are the old tires. I’ll probably try to CL them.
When it’s time to replace the front tires, I’m considering putting some HDR+’s there too. On my old F350 DRW, I ran Michelin XPS traction tires on both axles, and don’t remember any problems with them.
Any thoughts?
:):)
The tires are 225/70R19.5’s, and it came with Continental HSR steer tires on the front and rear axles. I’d prefer to have drive tires on the rear, so I bought four new Continental HDR+ tires from TiresDirect.net. @ $345 ea, free shipping/no tax. Nobody local could touch that price. Discount Tire would match the price, but they couldn’t mount that size yet, and I’d have to pay sales tax.
They came in quickly, delivered by FedEx. The date codes were all first week of October. I actually emailed them before ordering to see how old the tires were, and they responded quickly saying they just got them in, and they were still hot and sticky! :W
I had them mounted yesterday. The two inner rear tires were moved to the front. They still have about 1/4” of tread left. They’ll be good for another year or so.
The new rear tires have a good 1/2” of tread.
These are the old tires. I’ll probably try to CL them.
When it’s time to replace the front tires, I’m considering putting some HDR+’s there too. On my old F350 DRW, I ran Michelin XPS traction tires on both axles, and don’t remember any problems with them.
Any thoughts?
:):)
