tire issue
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tire issue
Hey guys I am currently running lt265 / 75 R 16 BF Goodrich all-terrain t/a and am noticing that the rear tires are wearing worse than the fronts but they are all pretty bad to the point I will need to purchase new ones soon. I checked them with a tire gauge and the rears are in the yellow (on a tire depth gauge) and the fronts are borderline yellow. I only have about 35k on these tires. I always drive highway and through out town. No burnouts or abuse. is this normal for this kind of tire? The main reason I stay with these tires are the look but this will be my second set in a little under 2 years. I rotated the tires once since I bought them but the fronts should wear more the rears right?? And tire pressure was kept at 70 psi
Thank you,
AJ
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AJ
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Hey guys I am currently running lt265 / 75 R 16 BF Goodrich all-terrain t/a and am noticing that the rear tires are wearing worse than the fronts but they are all pretty bad to the point I will need to purchase new ones soon. I checked them with a tire gauge and the rears are in the yellow (on a tire depth gauge) and the fronts are borderline yellow. I only have about 35k on these tires. I always drive highway and through out town. No burnouts or abuse. is this normal for this kind of tire? The main reason I stay with these tires are the look but this will be my second set in a little under 2 years. I rotated the tires once since I bought them but the fronts should wear more the rears right?? And tire pressure was kept at 70 psi
Thank you,
AJ
Thank you,
AJ
I run 55-60psi all around.
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Although you may be up a bit on pressure, I doubt that is accounting for the wear your are seeing. May want to consider a different tire. If you weigh your truck, you can get a weight/pressure table and you will know what pressure is recommended for the weight the tires carry. Pressures front and rear can differ given variance in weight distribution. 
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Hey guys I am currently running lt265 / 75 R 16 BF Goodrich all-terrain t/a and am noticing that the rear tires are wearing worse than the fronts but they are all pretty bad to the point I will need to purchase new ones soon. I checked them with a tire gauge and the rears are in the yellow (on a tire depth gauge) and the fronts are borderline yellow. I only have about 35k on these tires. I always drive highway and through out town. No burnouts or abuse. is this normal for this kind of tire? The main reason I stay with these tires are the look but this will be my second set in a little under 2 years. I rotated the tires once since I bought them but the fronts should wear more the rears right?? And tire pressure was kept at 70 psi
Thank you,
AJ
Thank you,
AJ
I would really have to say that 35 to 45000 on a heavy duty 4x4 is about average for what I saw on my other brand 3/4 ton and seems about right to me. If your looking for higher mileage I would recommend Michelin LTX's, great highway tire and great for tow rigs in my opinion. Hope this helps.
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I run 60 in the front and about 55 - 58 in the rears when I drive unloaded, which is most of the time since it is my daily driver. If I run higher than that the tread pattern wears out in the center of the tires relatively quickly. I don't rotate front to back since I run different drives / steers. I get 50k miles out of the front tires, and about 35 - 40k out of the back ones.
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thank you for all the help! I did forget one thing, i do plow and need a tire that will benefit in the winter as well. Are the mich ltx a tire that will handle plowing? If i had another rim set i would do two types of tires one for plowing and the winter and another set for the nicer months
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My BFG commercials take occasional abuse quite well. They offer a traction version that I use for drives, but you could run them on all four corners. And they are pretty affordable compared to what else is out there.
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Cooper has been sold to some country across the ocean. My dealer is dropping them. will have to see how it works out with new ownership, but buy-outs are seldom good news, in my opinion. I do like the ones I have been running.
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70 PSI? that seems a lot usually the tire will recommend the PSI and also if the tires are not the stock size they may wear that way if they are to big but I am not sure on the size but if they are too big that can do it I don't think the PSI really matters if its in range of what most should be between 35 and 55 PSI but 70 seems real high to me even for my buddies bronco with 35s the size of the tire don't effect the PSI it always says recommended PSI to run but where it is wearing that bad I'm not sure it could be something on the Truck doing that but the back should wear more than the front first
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70 PSI? that seems a lot usually the tire will recommend the PSI and also if the tires are not the stock size they may wear that way if they are to big but I am not sure on the size but if they are too big that can do it I don't think the PSI really matters if its in range of what most should be between 35 and 55 PSI but 70 seems real high to me even for my buddies bronco with 35s the size of the tire don't effect the PSI it always says recommended PSI to run but where it is wearing that bad I'm not sure it could be something on the Truck doing that but the back should wear more than the front first
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The only correct way to find the right psi for a tire that is not a stock sized tire is to do a chalk line test.....
Get a chalk line snap a line across the tire drive 50 feet.... Get out and look at your chalk line. If it is worn the same all the way across that's the correct psi. If there is no or little chalk in the center and it doesn't look like the outsides even touched the ground.... You have too much pressure.
I run 38x15.5s on 20x12 rims and 50 psi (which is max according to the tire) on the fronts and 45 psi on the rears. My snow tires that are 315/75r16 if I recall right are 45 in the front and 42 in the rears... It's been a few years since I've looked at them because I don't drive the truck in the snow anymore.
Get a chalk line snap a line across the tire drive 50 feet.... Get out and look at your chalk line. If it is worn the same all the way across that's the correct psi. If there is no or little chalk in the center and it doesn't look like the outsides even touched the ground.... You have too much pressure.
I run 38x15.5s on 20x12 rims and 50 psi (which is max according to the tire) on the fronts and 45 psi on the rears. My snow tires that are 315/75r16 if I recall right are 45 in the front and 42 in the rears... It's been a few years since I've looked at them because I don't drive the truck in the snow anymore.
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It is also correct to use the weight/pressure table for the tire. So much weight on the tire means so much pressure in the tire. All tires have such a table, but most folks don't weigh and changing weights makes it a moving target. Of course, if your weight stays the same, your ideal pressure would also.
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