Now that I have replaced my wheels I'm getting more serious about getting new tires. The wheels came with tires on them, but I'll only get a couple of months out of these before they'll have to be replaced.

I don't need anything high end on this truck. It's not a daily driver, high performance, or even 4x4. So economical is the name of the game. That being said, I'm wanting to bend that rule a bit by getting slightly oversized tires. To fill out the wheel wells a bit. I'm not looking to go over 31's though.

Anyway, I digress... I got a quote on two different tires today, but I have no experience with either one. One is Hercules (I'm told they are a Midwest company that were big back in the 70's & 80's). The other is General Grabber. They both look ok, but I'm not a tire expert by any means.

I know I could always get something like BFG's, Good Year, Micheline, etc. but I think hose would be unnecessarily nice (and expensive) for my needs.

Thoughts?

 

The Hercules are generally Chinese made… not my first choice. Don't know about the Generals.

I use www.tirerack.com as a reference for most of the tires I buy… great info and you don't have to buy a thing.

 

I've never heard of the hercules brand, but i know from experience general tires ride comfortably and last pretty decently. have a set of general grabber red letters on my 79 bronco love them. also have a friend that runs his truck on their all-terrains and he always brags to me. so thats my .02

 

Never heard of the Hercules. But I do know that the General Grabbers are readily available at your local Big-O Tires store.

 

I'm running general grabber at2 tires on my truck. I only have about 2k miles on them, but they've been treating me well. They've gotten me unstuck(rwd) and they handle really well in the snow. I couldn't be happier.

 

Thank you for the input! From what it's sounding like so far I think I'll stay away from the Hercules tires, but the General Grabbers may be a decent option.

Anyone know of any reason why the GG's wouldn't be a good option?

 

We sold Hercules tires back in the 60's. They were a second line for one of the major companies just like Cordovan, Dean and many others. There were perhaps 20-30 tire mfgs. in the US back then… not too many anymore.

 

I've run several sets of General Grabber AT2's on different vehicles over the past 10 years. Good tires!!!

 

These are the ones I'm leaning toward at this point. They seem to be a good balance of price and still being a genuinely decent tire.

I appreciate all the input fella's!