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What kind of Tires on your Automobile?

Deadly Sushi

Deadly Sushi

The One, The Only, Sushi
I love tires. :rolleyes: Dont know why.... but I do. They can change your car from a slippery 'cornering like a bus' piece of crappola to a well weather managed vehicle on 'rails'. :biker:

Do you know what make and model of tires you have? And what do you feel about them?
 
Cityboy said:
I have round rubber tires on all my vehicles. I like them.
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Do they have that thingy that lets You change the Pressure of the stuff that's in them ? If You Do.... How often do You need to change the Stuff in them ?
I've often thought about getting a set,but they seem so High tech and all .
 
Cooper, only because I buy from a rural dealer that lives 7 miles from the house and it's all he sells. Put $500 worth on the Tahoe Saturday and $400 worth on the wifes care last Saturday. Problem is I got 3 other vehicles and it won't be long for one of those needing them............... :thumb:
 
I also use Cooper tires as they are reasonably priced, good quality and make the odd sizes that I need when other manufacturers do not. We run studded M&S for the wintertime and change them out to a highway tire for the summer on the Jeep and F350 King Ranch. Cooper seems to have the most sizes available for the 4X4 vehicles that can be studded. The work truck that stays mostly on the mountain does not get the summer tires as we can have snow on the 4th of July at our elevation....:snow2_smi:
 
PBinWA said:
My round rubber things have little metal spikey things in them. They work good on ice n stuff.
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Got my round rubber thingys from a gas station restroom. 3-pack assortment for a buck! :thumb: None of them had little metal spikey things, though one did glow in the dark :thumb:
 
BOB. You never buy those from a vending machine. You dont know how old they are. Well there is an experation date in the condom itself. But you have to open the package first which to me is dumb.
 
BF GOODRICH tires and Michelin tires. X ice Michelin snow tires for my wifes Goe Metro. Studless snow tires. Man those things are the absolute best Snow Tire ever! BF Gs on the truck from the factory and they grip like crazy on snow and ice! Michelin tires on my trailer as well.
 
I am glad that this discussion came up as it reminded me that I have to get the summer air out of my tires and have the winter air installed. Do not want them to freeze up on me.
 
A couple of weeks ago I bought a set of Goodyear Assurance Triple Tread tires. We've had a little snow and ice since then and they handle better than the tires they replaced. These are 80k mile tires. If I get 65k out of them I'll be doing good.
My last ones were 40k tires and I got 32k out of them.

Does anyone get the advertised total mileage out of their tires?
 
RedDog, you don't know how close to right you are with the winter and summer air with the new required Tire Pressure Monitors. I work at a dealer. We had record heat all summer. Now that it's cold we constantly have people coming in with their low pressure lights on. So far we've just aired 'em up and advised the folks about seasonal changes in tire pressure, and that they can do it themselves. If Sushi was to come into the shop we'd have to get some of that $15.99 @ pound winter air from the parts desk and charge $80 @ hour labor for installation. Of course, he'd probably try to buy his own air somewhere, bring it in in a bucket, and ask me to install it for free!
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I have Uniroyals on two vehicles, and Bridgestone on the other one. Carlisle on the mower. Hutch
 
Hutchman said:
RedDog, you don't know how close to right you are with the winter and summer air with the new required Tire Pressure Monitors. I work at a dealer. We had record heat all summer. Now that it's cold we constantly have people coming in with their low pressure lights on. So far we've just aired 'em up and advised the folks about seasonal changes in tire pressure, and that they can do it themselves.
Hutch
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:yum: That's funny Hutch. Rather pathetic at the same time. I do like the tire pressure monitor light that indicates one of the tires does not have the same pressure as the rest. I'm shocked people did not know they can add air themselves. :pat: They must not even open their owners manual.
 
Had cooper tires on my '97 Jimmy before. They were garbage(wore out in 20 miles) Had Yokohama's on my last truck at first-rode really rough and not much traction, changed them for a set of used michelins I got off a family member. I put new tires on the truck this fall(dunlop rover RV RXT) They had a nice ride, awesome traction etc. But for some reason, they shook like crazy to the point where I couldn't hardly hold onto the steering wheel. I had them re-balanced 3 times. Still shook the truck to peices so I brought them back for a free replacement with another brand.

My new truck has bridgestone m&s tires. I wont put anything less than a mud&snow tire on my vehicle. No all-season crap for this guy!
 
I've got OEM tires on my truck, they're Goodyear Wrangler RT/S. They are a 50,000 mile tire with 56,000 on them right now. So, needless to say, I'm tire shopping very soon. The best wearing tire I've had were Michelin XC LT4's. Sold the Explorer with 60,000 miles on them and it appeared to have over half the tread left. But they were also the hardest riding tire I ever saw.
 
Many of the higher rated mileage tires use a harder rubber compound to get the high mileage. The harder rubber compound often does not grip in the cold on frozen ice and snow surfaces as well as the softer compound lower mileage tires. I have run some tires that never seem to wear but they have little grip in the winter time. The softer compound rubber just has more bite and that is what many of the good winter tires use and thus your tire mileage life is going to be less.
 
My VW Touareg came with Dunlop Gran Trek tires and I loved them. They handled very well both on road and the little bit of off road driving I do (mostly grassy fields, but some muddy fields). The Gran Treks gripped very well, made the Touareg handle like a much lighter vehicle (it weighs almost 6000#) they were great in the corners, didn't slip in rain or modest snow. Unfortunately they only lasted about 30.000 miles. I recently put on Goodyear TripleTreads and they are very good, not quite up to the handling I got from the Gran Treks but all the reviews suggest I should get longer life out of them.

The only time I ever had a problem off road with the Gran Treks was on a soggy spring day when I tried to pull a trailer out of my side yard. The trailer sank and the Gran Treks just packed up with clay and I got nowhere. Unhooking the trailer allowed me to move the vehicle, and I pulled the trailer out with a tractor. Still, I'd have simply replaced the Gran Treks with another pair if they had given me a longer life.

The wife's Volvo XC90 has a set of Perelli tires on it. They are soccer mom type SUV tires that are great for driving on the road, very very quiet tires, but there is no way I would trust them any farther off road than the front lawn. I'm not sure what she had before this set but they had far more road noise than this set. I am not sure of the model, but for some reason P-Zero comes to mind?

One tire that I had on several previous vehicles that I really liked was the Dunlop Radial Rover. Its a good tire for SUVs and light trucks that spend most of their time on the road but occasionally venture into the dirt, sand, grass. They never let me down.
 
Doc said:
A couple of weeks ago I bought a set of Goodyear Assurance Triple Tread tires. We've had a little snow and ice since then and they handle better than the tires they replaced. These are 80k mile tires. If I get 65k out of them I'll be doing good.
My last ones were 40k tires and I got 32k out of them.

Does anyone get the advertised total mileage out of their tires?
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I use to run the BF Gs AT on my 4x4s and those things wore like IRON! I could get 80K out of a set and I dont think they were rated for any mileage life.
 
Deadly Sushi said:
I love tires. :rolleyes: Dont know why.... but I do. They can change your car from a slippery 'cornering like a bus' piece of crappola to a well weather managed vehicle on 'rails'. :biker:

Do you know what make and model of tires you have? And what do you feel about them?
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:idea: Sushi! Have you ever thought about selling tires? :idea:

You got the "features & benefits" down pat. Sell what you know & love and you'll be successful at it.
 
mtntopper said:
Many of the higher rated mileage tires use a harder rubber compound to get the high mileage. The harder rubber compound often does not grip in the cold on frozen ice and snow surfaces as well as the softer compound lower mileage tires. I have run some tires that never seem to wear but they have little grip in the winter time. The softer compound rubber just has more bite and that is what many of the good winter tires use and thus your tire mileage life is going to be less.
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That is exactly correct. Those Michelin X Ice tires I have on my Geo I swear are softer than drag slick rubber! They are just supposed to be used during the winter only. The top half of the rubber is a super soft compound. Thats why they grip better than a studded tire. I run them all year long and right before winter hits I just buy a new set for maximum traction. For $200 for a set of 4 installed is cheap cheap insurance.:thumb:
 
Goodyear Eagle F1 GS D3 on 3 of them in the summer. Those three get Blizzaks in the winter.
Another is summer only - P Zero.

The other two have some sort of all weather tire on them. One has Goodyear the other Kumho.
 
City Boy I HAVE thought about it as a matter of fact. But they wanted me to put on the tires first. I dont think so. Not unless Im getting at least $20 hr.

A couple of weeks ago I bought a set of Goodyear Assurance Triple Tread tires.
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I had those on my Camry! They lasted 2 years until they started to squeel on dry surfaces at slow speeds. I added air..... I removed air..... didnt matter. Everytime I tunred...... SQUUUUUUUEEEEEEE! :smileywac
 
Ive been in sales for 16 years and Im 37 years old. Im not going to do ANY work that pays me $10.00/hr
Its not that the work itself is beneath me, its that it pays for shit!
 
Deadly Sushi said:
Ive been in sales for 16 years and Im 37 years old. Im not going to do ANY work that pays me $10.00/hr
Its not that the work itself is beneath me, its that it pays for shit!
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So what are you doing to increase your value, therby increasing your income? You don't get paid for the time you put in; you get paid for the value you put into your time. It's your life.
 
No offense intended, but if a person is not working and gets hungry enough, $10.00 per hour would look real good.

I am 53, have not worked for nine years, yet in all the years that I worked, there were only seven that I made a little over 40K per year. It is not how much one makes, it is how much one spends and it is how much one properly invests.

I must admit we are going to cut back as the two houses, the shed, two pickups, two explorers, one suburban, motor home, two tractors and two Harley's along with the associated real estate taxes and insurance coupled with escalating energy and health costs is getting tough to handle on the dollar an hour, in a good year, that I am making farming.:smileywac
 
Im going to get new teeth. That should increase my value on many levels.

No offense intended, but if a person is not working and gets hungry enough, $10.00 per hour would look real good.
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I agree with that! If you arent making anything then.... yes, 10 bucks is better than nothing. But realistically senior sales reps are worth $45K year plus commission.

Now back to TIRES!
Where do ya'll buy them?
 
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