If you are going to go to the extra expense of swapping to 16s (Great idea) Go all the way to LT tires. The GY may prove to be a good tire. Or it may not.
LTs have a proven track record.
I have owned more sets of STs than I care to remember. They never made it long before problems cropped up.
I am on my third set of LTs. The first two were replaced at 5 years due to.......AGE!!!!. STs never made it that far for me.
The "new" crop of STs??? Well I have seen this movie before.
New STs are introduced to great fanfare. Members of the forum rush to them like Lemmings to the sea.... Then problems start getting reported... Slowly at first, then with increasing frequency. till it is pretty much an accepted fact by most.
I look at it this way now. These latest improved versions are made by the SAME companies that have told us for many years how great their previous ST tires were... They were wrong then... Why give them more money this time? They haven't earned my confidence at all.
Just the opposite.
