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I would help if we knew what you plan to do with the truck and which drivetrain you have. Is it going to be only on the street? Mild off road driving every so often? Or do you plan to do some more serious off road driving and where? Each tire type is a compromise and also within the tire type, each brand tends to specialize a bit.I'm looking at the tires for my truck and would like to make a lift. Any recommendation?
Wow, I'm not sure that I've ever even gotten half that out of a set of tires, of any type, and they weren't used when I got them. I don't think it's the tire's fault though. I do like to take the curves a little fast.• Pirellii, All Terrain radial tires made for Sears, called Trailhandler APT. (@fastpakr, here you go) I put a low mile, used set of take-off tires on my Ranger; I've put approximately 110k miles on them, they still have one half the original tread but 2 of them, recently had their sidewalls crack so I pulled them off, out of prudence. I would buy more but they are no longer in production.
Me. Exactly. New tires on the truck seem to make it 2 years tops. The worst part is I don't even drive that fast. Trucks drifts at like 35mph on roads with a 55 speed limit.Wow, I'm not sure that I've ever even gotten half that out of a set of tires, of any type, and they weren't used when I got them. I don't think it's the tire's fault though. I do like to take the curves a little fast.
As far as I know, Cooper and Mastercraft are some of the few tires still made in the USA.I recall an uncle and his son talking about discovering the Cooper tires in the late 60s/ mid 70s somewhere, I think they were an independent brand then, maybe also foreign?
A guy I talked to at church also about that time or maybe later 70's, worked at a local tire maker factory, he said they'd run a particular tire and fill an order, then pull the (for example) Michelin plate from the mold, and without changing anything else put a Goodyear plate in and start running another batch