Need truck tires
 

I have an Ford F-250 with a 30' gooseneck car hauler. I took my car out of state ( 1700 mile round trip) and when I got back the back tires were damn near worn out. I have Goodyear Wrangler Silent Armour tires on the truck. They aren't noisy or have an aggressive tread and are great in rain or snow. This is my second set but man I can't believe the wear from pulling a trailer. Anybody else have that problem or maybe can recommend a decent tire that won't kill my bank account? Any input would be appreciated. :idea:
Kevin

Kevin, is this truck a dually?

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.

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 occasionally towing a 20' enclosed tag trailer and still have over half the tread remaning. I highly recommend them. To be honest all of these tires are pretty similar price wise.

Thanks Steve I had Michelin LTX on my last truck,I don't know if they were load E but mine sucked in the snow. it was like I was on a skating rink. I will check into the load E and look at the tread pattern. Thanks for the input.
Kevin

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.

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've got the BFG Rugged terrain tires on my Duramax. Having great service out of them. Even got caught in a snow storm last year here where it dumped about 4" really quickly. Caught everyone here in Chatt Town by surprise. Yes, no one but me here knows how to drive in the snow.:drive:

But over all I will buy another set when they are worn out. Very impressed with them.

Just curious, have you had the rear axle alignment checked?

Yes everything good with alignment, the wear is even and consistent, I only noticed it after the long haul.
Kevin

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

:thumbsup:

Haven't had any input on air ppressure, everything else should be good.
Kevin

I am running Toyo's on my F250 and pull an 10,000 pound load, so far I have 30,000 on them and prob.1/4 life left. I would buy them again.

I too use the Michelin LTX. They came stock on my Dodge and I don't have any complaints. The originals weren't the M/S2 but thats what I run now. The originals lasted 75k of 50/50 city/fwy driving with only 1 tire rotation. I only replaced them that early because I wore through the siping and needing snow traction for the passes around Tahoe. I wasn't to the wear bars but started to slide too much in the snow. The M/S2 was noticably better in the snow and the first set went 60-65k with considerably more stop and go. My truck is 8k and towing my 5th wheel I'm in the 20-21k GCVW range. The tires have always been smooth, quiet and predictable. These Michelin's have treated me very well and I don't hesitate to pay a little bit more for these over something else.

I am on my second set of Nitto Terra Grapplers on my F250 4X4. They are a great all terrain tire, they clean out very good and are fairly quite. I would recommend rotating them about every 5k miles or so to get them best life out of them. My first set lasted about 38k. I was running a tire too big for the rim so they wore out in the center, so I blame the low mileage on myself . This current set is the correct size for the rim and they have about 20k miles on them and I have plenty of tread left. I would recommend them, however I don't pull a trailer.

Thanks everyone for your input, I had Michelin LTX tires on my truck and with half the tread left they were terrible in the snow. Thats when I bought the Goodyear's, Nitto makes some good tires sooooooo I guess I have to pick out a tire. :hairpullout: