I am running the OEM Goodrich tires on my 2013 DRW F350 FX4. The fronts are not wearing all that well, but the rears have miles and miles ahead of them to go. I plan to in the future to change all out to a little more aggressive AT pattern tire.
However, I have a RV trip in my near future and am thinking of replacing the front tire with a Cooper tire
Tire Details - Discount Tire
Which would let me get some additional miles out the of the OEM rear BF Goodrich tires before investing in a full replacement set of 7 new tires on the truck.
I guess another way to extend the life of the rear tires would be to purchase one new like BF Goodrich tire for the front, use the spare tire on the other front and use the best used tire as a spare tire.
Or I could just purchase 2 new BF Goodrich tires for the front. I just hate paying $210 per tire when I know I am going to be replacing them in maybe 12K miles.

If I mix the front tires with the Coopers in the link, keeping the factory BF Goodrich tires on the rear is the ride and handling going to be effected and or noticed?

So what say the DRW Owners out there?

 

I honestly dont know. I would assume there wouldnt be any negative results. Shoot, im still trying to find out if they put al front tires on my truck. Apparently the F450 has HSR and HDR tires (steer and drive).... i have all HSRs all around

 

Since you can't rotate rear tires to the front with the aluminum wheels, only side to side like you do with front, you should not experience any problems running different brands or types or size of tires.

Personally, I wish there was an option for steel wheels on the Lariat trucks, I would have ordered them. I like to rotate front to rear and side to side. On the old 1996 F350 dually, I was able to get an easy 55,000 miles from each set.

 

My '15 F-450 has the HSR tires all around. My '08 F-450 had HSR on the front and HDR on the rear, it was an option then. The HDR's were very noisy and I didn't notice any real benefit from them. I don't think the HDR's are an option now, at least they weren't when I ordered the '15.

 

I did look briefly at these tires. But, just can't justify the cost of the add on options.

2016 Ford Super Duty F-450 DRW DeSoto TX 10842656

Even though in the over all scope of things the discount looks to be pretty fair.

 

The only time it would make much difference is when running in four wheel drive. We run different tires on the front than the back on our company trucks and some with over 300K miles, have not had any issues with different tires on the front axle.

 

My 450 has HSR's all the way around also. I would just rotate them even if you have to have them broke down and remounted. At least that way you don't waste money on tires until you replace them all

 

Yeah I only have 27k on my tires and they are just about done. I am just trying to hold off another month or so because I want Eagle 058 series wheels and Cooper discoverer AT3 tires. I was going to stay with stock sized tires this time but really want the Eagles and would be kicking myself having to wait another 30k miles. We are going to Florida over Christmas to visit my daughter so I need it done by then.

 

My thoughts are the same. My fronts are wearing at twice the pace of the rear.


when they are done I will be replacing the fronts only with some coopers too.


Then I will switch the rears as they get closer.


They say it can make a difference with understeer or oversteer in weather conditions if running different tires with different amounts of tread but I don't think we are so concerned with that here. We are not driving cars and not as fast as one might think.

 

When I had my F350 DRW, I went through front tires about twice as fast as the rears. When the fronts were worn, I'd put a new set on the front axle. I mixed brands at times. Never had any problems. The truck had 180K+ miles when I traded it in.

As far as different tread depth or pattern causing understeer or oversteer, I don't really think that is as noticeable on a DRW vs a SRW. Actually, I should say it isn't as relevant. Not having the same grip up front is just a fact of life with a dually.

 

OK something simple. Buy 2 oem tires for the front, but put only one new one on the road. Start using that spare!! O buy one oem and pu pu b into spa position.

Tires crap out after the years even I not us much, so start using that spare eve if it is not a shiny aluminum rim.

I would not mix brands on the front.

 

My front tires have good tread left but my outside rear tire needs to be replaced about 20k miles while the front and the inside rear are the same.

Any advice?

Thanks,
Ron

 

We've never had any issues running mixed brands on any of our med units for the last 25 years. Only once did they put STEER axle tires on the DRIVE axle which caused a helluva time holding that truck in the road. I had to go to the tire manufacturer's own website to prove to them that they weren't supposed to be on the drive axle. It was on an 08 F450/with the 19.5 tires and it made a dangerous drive/ride for about 700 miles until the shop replaced them. Other than that, no trouble at all mixing brands and/or tread patterns as we usually get a low bid.
Ron, your dually is doing like mine then. My outside rears are wearing faster than the insides. After researching it, most agree the rear needs a bigger sway bar for the load I'm carrying. But not all trucks carrying even more weight do this. May be worth a shot at the Hellwig BigRig bar for mine just to see.

 

the only issues you might have are if they arent the same size and you try to use 4x4 on dry surfaces as they wont be rotating at the same speed, if they are way different sized it will probably trigger the traction control system as well. If they are pretty close in actual outside diameter it wont be a problem.

 

My front tires always wore out before the rears on the old dually. I always used Michellin, but when I put new ones on the front I always moved the old front tires to the rear inside. The rear inside went to the outside. I got 112K miles out of the last 2 on the outside. I just put 2 new fronts on before I traded. I had about 134K on it and was on my 3rd set of front tires.