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Grit dog
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Cummins12V98 wrote:monkey44 wrote:BFG Has been our brand consistantly since the 1980's ... We also try to save money when practical, but our lives and those of our kids and grandkids ride on our tires.
Tires, whether on a truck or on a trailer or on a MH, is not the place we'd choose save a buck. Didn't scrimp on MC tires either. ![[emoticon]](http://www.rv.net/sharedcontent/cfb/images/smile.gif "smile")
Never scrimped on tires and with way over one million miles under my belt I have had ONE blowout.
One blowout? Didn’t you just start a thread about losing more than one tire just on your trailer in the last year or however long?
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Grit dog
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monkey44 wrote:BFG Has been our brand consistantly since the 1980's ... We also try to save money when practical, but our lives and those of our kids and grandkids ride on our tires.
Tires, whether on a truck or on a trailer or on a MH, is not the place we'd choose save a buck. Didn't scrimp on MC tires either.
Well there’s scrimping and then there’s SCRIMPING. Save for some no name chinesium or tiawanesium tires, I strongly question brand loyalty based on the “safety” of one brand name tire vs another.
It’s simple economics. If ANY tire company made a tire that didn’t have an industry standard factor of safety ( which is a very conservative FoS) they would be bankrupt within a year. Doesn’t take many deaths associated with bad tires to make that happen.
Traction, treadwear, even longevity can be improved or debated between mfgs.
But the dramatic “for the love of the children” stuff is subjective, not objective.
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monkey44
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FishOnOne wrote:monkey44 wrote:BFG Has been our brand consistantly since the 1980's ... We also try to save money when practical, but our lives and those of our kids and grandkids ride on our tires.
Tires, whether on a truck or on a trailer or on a MH, is not the place we'd choose save a buck. Didn't scrimp on MC tires either.
I was a fan of BFG AT tires and had excellent durability from them until I purchased a set of BFG AT 2 tires. My truck exhibited death wobble 2 times with them and was lucky to get 40k miles out of them. We don't even use them on our farm/ranch trucks anymore. Crazy thing is BFG is owned by Michelin which doesn't make any sense.
I know, but have bought two sets recently - four each time - and have no issues. I know it kills to have one-two fail. But over the lifetime of BFG and my trucks - forty years ... have had only one bad tire, a rear SW 2500HD - after several thousand miles - and BFG replaced TWO so wear would match on the partner tire. Can't complain
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I would get 100k out of BFG 3rd gen take offs and still have tread left.
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wowens79
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I’ve been super happy with my Cooper tires. Reasonable price, good traction, good wear.
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I really liked the BFG KO AT's down to about the 50% wear out point. They are in my view one of the best AT tires on ice in that first 50%. Probably do to all the sipes and cuts they just do a great job planting the pickup on snow packed/icy roads. My issue was how fast they would wear out. Every year (for 9 years) I would replace two of the tires due to wear, right before Winter. It seems like towing really wore them down fast. Not great cutting fresh snow, even when new, but decent enough.
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ksss wrote:I really liked the BFG KO AT's down to about the 50% wear out point. They are in my view one of the best AT tires on ice in that first 50%. Probably do to all the sipes and cuts they just do a great job planting the pickup on snow packed/icy roads. My issue was how fast they would wear out. Every year (for 9 years) I would replace two of the tires due to wear, right before Winter. It seems like towing really wore them down fast. Not great cutting fresh snow, even when new, but decent enough.
They seem to wear really well on lighter vehicles, but wear like crazy on HD diesel trucks. I ran a set on a Ranger 4x4 for work and they wore like steel.
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FishOnOne
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blofgren wrote:ksss wrote:I really liked the BFG KO AT's down to about the 50% wear out point. They are in my view one of the best AT tires on ice in that first 50%. Probably do to all the sipes and cuts they just do a great job planting the pickup on snow packed/icy roads. My issue was how fast they would wear out. Every year (for 9 years) I would replace two of the tires due to wear, right before Winter. It seems like towing really wore them down fast. Not great cutting fresh snow, even when new, but decent enough.
They seem to wear really well on lighter vehicles, but wear like crazy on HD diesel trucks. I ran a set on a Ranger 4x4 for work and they wore like steel.
Ran a couple sets of these on my 05 Super Duty and would get maybe 35k miles on these.
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cummins2014
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wowens79 wrote:I’ve been super happy with my Cooper tires. Reasonable price, good traction, good wear.
Time for new tires , I too looking at the Cooper AT3 XLT , reasonably priced ,just have never run a set.
Presently running the Toyo AT2's , I like the tire ,other then I thought I would get a bit better than I did out of them. If I wasn't towing a fifth wheel, and pushed them right to the wear bars ,maybe 40K. As is I don't want to push them.
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OP update: I stayed with the Nitto Ridge Grapplers, but in the stock 275/70-18 size. Some of you may recall when I bought this truck it had these tires in 325/65-18 size, they looked badazz, and handled the camper well, but not what you want when towing heavy. These are stock 18x8 wheels. As an aside, the search function has a gap between 2020 and 2013 so I can't link to that post.
Anyway, $1431.08 out the door. *sigh*
Here's what the old tires looked like on the truck:
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A good 5" wider than the stock size:
![[image]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/y134/Burbman/20201107_144003.jpg)
Buit since we don't camp on the beach anymore it's all good.
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