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Originally Posted by TheJDMan (Post 592636)

I have a 2500HD Silverado Duramax. I had those Goodyear tires at first and like you they pretty much only lasted about 20,000 miles. I now have a set of Michelin LTX M/S 285/70-17 load range E. They have about 50,000 on them now and still have over half the tread remaning. I highly recommend them. To be honest all of these tires are pretty similar price wise.

I run the same Michelins on my dually, Tahoe, and both 2500 HDs. No issues, ever, and good wear. The Tahoe has 60K miles and the tires still have good tread. The dually gets 40-50K on the fronts and 80K on the rears, but I only pull a light, open trailer with a light car. Also, I've heard of snow, but I'm not sure any of my vehicles have ever seen it.

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Originally Posted by RdHuggr68 (Post 592659)

Do you pull a car hauler or any other gooseneck style trailer? With all the weight over the rear wheels it seems to raise hell with the tire wear pattern.
Kevin

I have made a few trips Maryland to Florida with the 24 foot bumper pull enclosed never noticed any excessive wear on the rear versus the front. It's over 2500 miles round trip. If you're wearing the rears out much faster in the front it sounds like you have too much tongue weight on your trailer.

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Originally Posted by B Schein (Post 592675)

I don't think there is any adj. on a gooseneck trailer.

Curious about tire pressure front and rear on the truck.

Tire pressure is important. I ruined the rear tires on my truck after forgetting to air down after pulling the camper.

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Originally Posted by RdHuggr68 (Post 592632)

No,sorry i should have mentioned it is not a dually that just be more rubber to buy. I hope some people chime in on this. I know a lot of you trailer your car to events that are to far to drive your ride to.

Kevin I agree with you on double the rubber to buy, but with a dually, the tongue weight is distributed across four tires vs. two tires, so actually you'd be buying rubber far less.
The load in a gooseneck is somewhat adjustable depending on how you load the trailer. Move the car further back in the trailer to reduce tongue weight, and forward in the trailer to increase tongue weight. You don't have to move the car very far, to make a big difference in weighing the tongue.
How much does the trailer weigh, loaded? This is important.
How are your trailer tires wearing?
As said above, tire pressure is very important.
Rule of thumb is you want 10% to 15% tongue weight, of the load your pulling, for a gooseneck trailer. So if your trailer is, say, 10,000 lbs, you'd want the hitch weight to be 1000 to 1500 lbs.
Buy a tire designed to handle the load your pulling. Don't go cheap here. You DO NOT want a tire failure, while pulling that car in a trailer. Could get ugly quickly.
Stay safe!

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Originally Posted by dontlifttoshift (Post 592715)

Curious about tire pressure front and rear on the truck.

70 rear/60 front with trailer
60 rear/50 front no trailer

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Originally Posted by Che70velle (Post 592724)

Thanks Scott for the info.the trailer weighs 5960 empty and the tires are wearing well. I try to keep the cars weight centered over the trailer tires as much as the holddowns will let me.Duallys are great for hauling but a pain in the ass to drive anywhere. I guess I just never had one or want one.

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Originally Posted by B Schein (Post 592642)

I really like my Nitto terra grappler's Put over 60,000 On the first set just put on a set of the new terra grappler G2's both sets were E range they also make then in an LT version which is only 4 ply so you need to pay attention when you buy them the price difference should be the giveaway . I have also had the Michelin LTX/MS tire on my other truck and gotten over 90,000 out of set but they don't seem to make them in a bigger size than stock for my RAM 2500.

Is there anybody running Nitto tires on their trucks??
Kevin

I had the same Nitto's on my powerstoke years ago, I only put 40k or so on them before I sold the truck. They still looked new and I had zero issues with them. My pops runs some kind of Michelin and seems to like them, he's pulling an open car trailer, Warshington to Utah and a 30' Airstream all over the dang place.

Something doesn't seem right with the mileage you're getting out of the tires. Like others have said, load rating, tire psi, and loading the trailer balanced is what I'd be looking into.

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