Replacing Tires on my GMC

captbru wrote:
I'm just looking for a good set of tires, not what did you due wrong to cause the tires to wear down.

A good set of tires for you might be different than a good set of tires for another person. Operating environment and driving style can be significant factors to take into consideration when choosing a tire whose balance of characteristics is biased toward longer survival or more favorable performance when subjected to a particular type of environment or driving style.

The advice dispensed on an open forum is free of financial charge, but not free in terms of the courtesy tendered to receive it. Biting the hand that feeds, when that hand is merely trying to assess the facts of the operating environment and driving style that might inform a better choice of tire... is not likely going to encourage that hand to followup with another morsel, regardless of the data provided.

If all tires were just simple round black things, rather than a tricky balance of sometimes mutually exclusive characteristics, including, but not limited to dry traction, wet traction, low noise, fuel economy, tread life, carrying capacity, roll stability, directional control, scuff resistance, stone ejection, hydroplane resistance, heat rejection, snow performance, regulatory conformance, ride quality, and let's not forget cost... then there wouldn't be so many brands, types, and offerings in the tire industry.

The very characteristics that make one tire perform optimally in one parameter, can make that same tire perform dismally in another. Therefore, there is no perfect tire. The ideal tire is the tire that best meets a balance of traits that prioritizes the parameters that the tire will most likely be required to deliver in service. And that can depend on the operating environment and driving style.

20,000 miles out of set of new tires, in this day and age, is DISMAL tread life. Anyone similarly situated would benefit by examining what factors would cause such shortened tread life when considering a replacement set of tires. Maybe a harder rubber compound, that might sacrifice suppleness for durability, is where the balance of tire traits should shift in order to better meet the specific driver's need. However, if defensiveness doesn't even permit that discussion, then naturally that free advice becomes unavailable.

captbru wrote:
looks like Michelin is the way to go.

Two blow outs reported, from two different parties, each causing $3,500 in damage, and this is the conclusion drawn?