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Jun 26, 2001 | 12:03 AM

ScottR

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Iwas wondering if any of you guys have trouble keeping tires on your F250,s. I have a 97 250 heavy duty with 66,000 miles and I am now on my 4th set of tires, is this normal? On the other hand I am still on the origional brakes both front and back go figure!!. any feed back would be helpful

Thanks Scott

Jun 30, 2001 | 01:18 PM

BearDog1

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I have a 99 Powerstroke supercab, and I got 39,000 miles out of my first set of Firestones. I replaced them with Cooper AT's.

Jul 4, 2001 | 12:47 AM

rondogw

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I have the same truck and what I have found is Twin I beam front ends eat tires. My alignment man installed cams to adjust it and it got alot better. I only have 30,000 miles on mine. Ate up the originals in 16,ooo and bought 4 50% firestone from a buddy who went with big tires. I've worn 2 of those out and am now almost done with the other 2. And all along the 2 rear are still about 20% left. I couldn't rotate them because it came with 2 different kinds of Generals on it. (2 front and 2 rear). Why? I don't know. The rears look like more of a big rig drive tire not a steer tire so I never rotated them. My son noticed it after I got home from buying it.

Keep rotating them and have the front end checked out.

Jul 8, 2001 | 09:23 PM

theologian

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My F450 gets around 50,000 on a set of tires, I usually get Firestone at about $90 a tire. They are about due for changing..

Wm

Jul 9, 2001 | 09:43 AM

deere81

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My grandpas '90 F-250 went through lots of tires. It has about 60,000 miles on it now. It originally came with Michelins on it. They had problems, so did the Cooper tires that he had put on it when he was on vacation after the Michelins came apart, then we put Firestone R4S tires on it and had no problems. My dads '95 F-250 got 62,000 miles out of a set of Firestone R4S tires.

Jul 10, 2001 | 06:34 PM

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I've got 54K on my 99 SD 4X4 LWB Extended cab... I know I can get every bit of 70K out of these Firestone tires. They are the Steeltex A/T series and have been great tires. I pull an 18.6' fish/ski boat and don't 4 wheel at all.... Glen