Best Truck Tire

[racerdad2]

What's the longest lived, decent traction, load range E, 235 - 85 R - 16 Highway - Towing truck tire ?

Summer - dry & wet ?

Winter - snow & ICE ?

Thx for your inputs !

I'm leaning towards Michelin. ...

[Matt King]

Michelin LTX. Wear like iron and are decent in the snow. I've had a set from Costco on my F250 for 8 years, 75,000 miles. Never had a flat and still have about 1/3 tread life.

[Dan McMahan]

Ditto, cost more up front but more than make up the difference in wear.

[racerdad2]

Excellent. Thx.

[Lynn]

One more for the Michelin LTX.

[Scootin159]

Another Michelin LTX owner here. Another perk of the Michelin's is they're low rolling resistance tires - probably gives you ~1mpg.

[BeerBudgetRacing]

I have a 4x4 Tundra we use to tow. The truck is driven a lot without towing as well.
We put a set of Goodyear Wrangler Silent Armor Pro Grade tires on it 6 year/60k miles ago. My first impression was - these suckers are going to be gone in a year.

I would estimate 50% tread life remaining today. No road noise. Some off road use too.
We've abused them: over loaded, run over crap

There's Silent Armor and Silent Armor Pro Grade (more$ obviously).

I've never owned Mich LTX, but lots of other Mich tires.
I'd consider both the next time I need to buy....

[racerdad2]

Thx !

[BruceRace]

Michelin LTX!!!!!!!

[Mark_Silverberg]

Had the Michelin LTX as an OE tire on one or more of my trucks - it was a very good tire. Can not speak to life as these were company vehicles and were with me for less than one year.

The Hankook DynaPro ATM has a horrible name but it actually quite a good tire and available in load range E for a very appealing price. Had some on an older full sized SUV for about a year and was very pleased with their performance.

[EYERACE]

Still boycotting Mich here = I like Pirelli Scorpions on my F250

[BeerBudgetRacing]

Still boycotting Mich here = I like Pirelli Scorpions on my F250

Yuck. Had those on my wife's landrover. Couldn't get 8000 mi out of a set. Went through many. Tire guy said it was the car....
Switched to bf goodrich . 15k and they still look new. Much quieter too.

YMMV

[TimH]

Still boycotting Mich here

?

[EYERACE]

Michelin boycott started in response to what Michelin did at Indy F1.......how soon the others forgot huh?


And I agree the problem is...it was a land rover

[EYERACE]

the Scorpions gave me about 70,000 miles - check your compounds - even on street tires

[Steve Demeter]

In a life long time ago I worked at a company that made wheels for 18 wheelers.

We used to test wheels using a tire test machine with a BIG driven drum and a hydraulic ram to press the wheel tire assembly against the drum.

Ran the assembly about 60 mph at 2 1/2 times the rating of the wheel (or 5 times the rating of the best tires).

Michelins lasted 4 to 5 times longer than any other brand we tried. And we bought the tires 30 at a time so we had plenty of opportunity to try various choices.

Tried some McCrearys once. They lasted about an hour before blowing.

[PCalhoun]

Michelin LTX hands down (there are a few different LTX models). It will transform how your truck rides and handles for the better.