Which tires?
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I'm leaning Duratrac or Coopers at this point. I know the Coopers are 700 and tax, but I'd have to drop the rims off and pick them up...something hard to do without a truck....since they won't mount 'oversized' tires on anything. More I read on the Duratracs, the more I like them. Seems like a good tire with an aggressive look.
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I've been in the tire business for a long long time and if I may add my 2 cents, Your best bet is to go with the BFG A/T.. I personally use mich LTX m/s cause they are pretty much the best on the market, but if your looking to save a little money the BFG A/T's are the way to go.. They are much quieter, and smoother than the M/T. Now if your gonna do some off road, in the fields, farm kinda stuff then yeah ms's are the way to go.. I personally stay far far away from any goodyear tire. I won't use them and won't sell them.. They use a cheaper compound causing the sidewalls to give out much faster than almost any tire on the market. Don't get me wrong they are good tires but in my 17 years of being in the business I have seen more good year blow outs than any other tire out there...
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I've been in the tire business for a long long time and if I may add my 2 cents, Your best bet is to go with the BFG A/T.. I personally use mich LTX m/s cause they are pretty much the best on the market, but if your looking to save a little money the BFG A/T's are the way to go.. They are much quieter, and smoother than the M/T. Now if your gonna do some off road, in the fields, farm kinda stuff then yeah ms's are the way to go.. I personally stay far far away from any goodyear tire. I won't use them and won't sell them.. They use a cheaper compound causing the sidewalls to give out much faster than almost any tire on the market. Don't get me wrong they are good tires but in my 17 years of being in the business I have seen more good year blow outs than any other tire out there...
Bought the Good Years yesterday. I didn't look at the Mich's because I wanted a more aggressive look. Truck will see light off road only if I take it to a construction site for work, mostly going to be in the snow. Again, it's a 1500 mile a year vehicle at best and is going to spend most of it's life in the garage.
Anyway, good advice rob. I just got sick of the whole tire process. Once I decided on the Dura Trac's I went in and bought them because they only had 4 in stock. I want to pick up my truck from the body shop this week (hopefully) and head straight there to get tires.
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sorry I have been away for a few weeks.. Good years are an alright tire how ever with my exp in the tire business, I try really hard to stay away from them. Your only doing about 1500 a year so I wouldn't worry about them to much then.
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yeah with your truck sitting for so long dry rot will be an issue. As long as you keep stuff like Armor all and any kind of oil based cleaners away from your tires they should be fine for a number of years
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Hutch: I don't think you made a bad decision at all going with the Goodyears. If they were a bad company I'm sure they wouldn't be around anymore and as I can recall Jeeps are one of the best and most used off-road vehicles and A LOT of jeep owners ride Goodyears
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Why do tire conditioners such as Armor All etc hurt the tires? I personally hate Armor All but use Eagle One religiously. These types of products are supposed to prevent cracking. How did you get to this theory? I’ve used products like this for over 10 years with nothing but positive things to say about them.
Hutch: I don't think you made a bad decision at all going with the Goodyears. If they were a bad company I'm sure they wouldn't be around anymore and as I can recall Jeeps are one of the best and most used off-road vehicles and A LOT of jeep owners ride Goodyears
Hutch: I don't think you made a bad decision at all going with the Goodyears. If they were a bad company I'm sure they wouldn't be around anymore and as I can recall Jeeps are one of the best and most used off-road vehicles and A LOT of jeep owners ride Goodyears
As far as Goodyear tires, I'm not a tire guy, don't work at a tire shop, but I've had a lot of tires over the years on my Jeep and I've abused the **** out of all of them. I've also been active in the four wheeling industry for about the last 13 years and as an active wheeler have both used, wheeled with others and written about Goodyear tires. I have never heard of any of the problems mentioned in this thread, but that's just my personal experience, take that for what it is worth.
That said, I think Goodyear makes some really nice tires, but I'm more of a BFG guy myself
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I'm not bothered by the choice at all. Even if I would have had his advice before yesterday, I would have bought them since I'm not horribly worried about blow outs given my driving habits.
Since the truck is going to sit most of it's life, I only really cared about packed snow performance and looks. I know 'looking cool' shouldn't be a huge factor when buying tires, but this isn't a real 'daily driver', so I don't have to be extremely practical. When it comes to my business vehicles, I look only at performance and could care less what they look like, but those get 20k+ a year.
Since the truck is going to sit most of it's life, I only really cared about packed snow performance and looks. I know 'looking cool' shouldn't be a huge factor when buying tires, but this isn't a real 'daily driver', so I don't have to be extremely practical. When it comes to my business vehicles, I look only at performance and could care less what they look like, but those get 20k+ a year.
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As far as oil based things causing breakdown, I think this makes sense because this may actually work like a solvent, put it in, and at first it seems to help, be as it get's washed away, it may take some of the tire's oils with it.
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I know 'looking cool' shouldn't be a huge factor when buying tires, but this isn't a real 'daily driver', so I don't have to be extremely practical. When it comes to my business vehicles, I look only at performance and could care less what they look like, but those get 20k+ a year.
Let's be real...I'm probably going to look at my tires more than they're actually going to be plowing through 3 feet of snow! ...but I'm not discounting the performance factor either.
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I have been using BFG all terrains for 25 years from my 1969 F250 to my present 05 F250 Turbo Diesel. I drive 60% street and 40% off road including 60 degree slime coverd boat launching ramps the traction is incredible wet or dry. The make a little road noise at 70 mph but if you want a quite ride buy a Taurus.
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I have been using BFG all terrains for 25 years from my 1969 F250 to my present 05 F250 Turbo Diesel. I drive 60% street and 40% off road including 60 degree slime coverd boat launching ramps the traction is incredible wet or dry. The make a little road noise at 70 mph but if you want a quite ride buy a Taurus.
I can definitely attest to the slimy boat ramp and the BFGs. They did well while everyone else slid around. Come warmer weather in a few months I expect nothing less than launch ramp devouring from the Dura Tracs. Haha.
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I hate the oil based tire protectants. It makes the tires look like they have been spray painted and it slings off all over the paint.
A few years ago, a friend of mine was in engineering school and did a test on the platic and vinyl protectants for dash and interior etc. What he found was that if you use one you have to use it all the time. It does add plasticulates (I believe its called) back to the surface, but also removes them.
The only tire protectant I like is Black Magic Titanium Matte Finish. It is water based and dries quickly and is not shiney.
A few years ago, a friend of mine was in engineering school and did a test on the platic and vinyl protectants for dash and interior etc. What he found was that if you use one you have to use it all the time. It does add plasticulates (I believe its called) back to the surface, but also removes them.
The only tire protectant I like is Black Magic Titanium Matte Finish. It is water based and dries quickly and is not shiney.