New tire time - Destination AT, Dueler Revo, Transforce AT?

Vanished wrote:

Grit dog wrote:

kzspree320 wrote:

kzspree320 wrote:
I hadFirestone Transforce ATs on my 2008 Ram 2500 for about 30,000 miles until I recently traded the truck. Tires were in great shape and I liked them. Good luck. Keith

I posted as shown above earlier in the thread. What I posted is accurate. Mine would have probably gone 60K miles. BUT - Mine were not the OEM tires. I bought them as replacements. Maybe the OEM tires are not built to the same specs. Just speculating.

That's hard to know, and I doubt mfgs make a special run of tires for the OE apps but anything is possible.
RE Transforce, I've never completely run out a set, but the first set I had were pretty hashed in lower miles iirc.

Actually based off everything I've seen it seems the OEM tires are far worse than replacements and they do do special runs with unique compounds for OEM usage...

It does make sense as I swear OE tires wear out quicker. But I attributed it to being harder on them than the next set I had to mortgage the house for....lol.

I'm Trying to sell my Firestone HT now on CL only because I want a more aggressive look. I Have heard great reports from cooper at3. I got a quote from Discount Tire for $185 a tire as compared the Toyo at $240. Great reports on both tires.

Just an update, I bit the bullet today and ordered my tires. I went around town and checked out what a few shops had in stock, read a bunch more online and decided on Toyo Open Country AT2 in 295/60r20. This makes them 33.9" tall compared to the 33.2" tall stock size that came with my truck, seeing as I have 3.31 gears I was a little uncomfortable going much taller as I know it will hurt towing performance.

I have the Dayton Timberline AT2 on my F150 in LT/265/70/17 C. Comparing the tread and what my tire installer tells me they are the exact same tire as the Destination AT. I currently have 103K miles on my tires. Would love to buy the exact same tire, but Dayton got out of the light weight vehicle tire business. I looked into the Destination but they are only available in that size as a P275/60/17. Nothing in a 6 or even 10 ply tire in that size. So I'm back out looking for another brand. Overall I was very happy with the tires, my truck is 2wd and I got stuck in a yard in wet clay one time, and noticed that they did not clean out the tread very well. It was completely packed. Since it was 2wd I wasn't too worried about that since it rarely leaves the step rest anyway. Wet and snow traction did very well I drive 35 miles one way to work on the highway and have always had about 200# in the back during winter but even with the 6 or 8 inches we got a few years ago I had no issues at all. They did not have much road noise either.

I'm a few weeks away from ordering the tires as I'm waiting on the wheels to get here. I'm Decided on the Firestone Destination AT in the stock 275/65r20 size. They work out to be nearly 80$ cheaper per tire than the Michelin AT2's that tirerack rates below them. I'm buying local as the Canadian dollar is doing poorly and I've found a few good prices locally.

Grit dog wrote:

kzspree320 wrote:

kzspree320 wrote:
I hadFirestone Transforce ATs on my 2008 Ram 2500 for about 30,000 miles until I recently traded the truck. Tires were in great shape and I liked them. Good luck. Keith

I posted as shown above earlier in the thread. What I posted is accurate. Mine would have probably gone 60K miles. BUT - Mine were not the OEM tires. I bought them as replacements. Maybe the OEM tires are not built to the same specs. Just speculating.

That's hard to know, and I doubt mfgs make a special run of tires for the OE apps but anything is possible.
RE Transforce, I've never completely run out a set, but the first set I had were pretty hashed in lower miles iirc.

Actually based off everything I've seen it seems the OEM tires are far worse than replacements and they do do special runs with unique compounds for OEM usage...

Vanished wrote:

Grit dog wrote:
Whether one likes them or not, Transforce tires are cheap bargain OE tires, just like the Duravis, generals, hankooks etc that mfgs slap on the trucks.
One will never see the performance and/or longevity out of these types of tires compared to top of the line or dedicated purpose tires.
Doesn't mean they are bad China bombs or anything, just you get what you pay for.

I would have been far less upset had I not paid a $200 premium as an 'all terrain' tire that will last under 20k miles...

Yeah that sucks but compared to the top of the line tires, they are much cheaper cost aftermarket, so $50 extra over the HTs per tire isn't too much.
Dunno how they do in mud but, again, snow traction is abysmal.
I am running out the OE Tforce AT takeoffs I bought since I'm not getting much snow time this year but the few trips to the mountains have resulted in several minor stucks pulling my sled trailer that any other dedicated AT or MT I've run would pull right through.

kzspree320 wrote:

kzspree320 wrote:
I hadFirestone Transforce ATs on my 2008 Ram 2500 for about 30,000 miles until I recently traded the truck. Tires were in great shape and I liked them. Good luck. Keith

I posted as shown above earlier in the thread. What I posted is accurate. Mine would have probably gone 60K miles. BUT - Mine were not the OEM tires. I bought them as replacements. Maybe the OEM tires are not built to the same specs. Just speculating.

That's hard to know, and I doubt mfgs make a special run of tires for the OE apps but anything is possible.
RE Transforce, I've never completely run out a set, but the first set I had were pretty hashed in lower miles iirc.

My neighbor has 8 rabbits.

I am partial to Goodyear and do not see any on your list. 90,000 out of the OEM AT/S and 70,000 miles out of the Silent Armor. Worked well for me in snow sand mud and dirt.

Next set will be Wrangler All-Terrain.