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I bought a set of these at Walmart maybe 3 yrs ago and they're great for the money. I paid $75ea. plus installation. If you've got an older P.U. with 15" rims they are the cat's pajamas. The ad says they'll ship them free to your house or to the store if you want them to install them. They've got a fairly aggressive tread good in snow (at least where I live). $216 plus install is a good deal for deeze tars.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Goodyear-Wrangler-Radial-P235-75R15-105S-OWL-Highway-tire/4404150
 
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You can get them even cheaper if you get Nylon tires........
just have to put up with a little flat spot when you first head out.
Been using them since the 60's.
Work great in snow with studs, added.
 
I put 4 Michelins on my old '82 Silverado about 20 years ago or so.
Can't wear them out. After pulling a 32' trailer all around the country,
when it was new, it has mostly been just local backup use. Still only
85,000 miles.

Just bought 4 Goodyear Viva's at Walmart for the Buick. Then I read
a bunch of bad reviews of the tires. It has been a very smooth ride
with no problems so far. Hope those reviews are wrong.
 

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That's a tremendous buy....

I've shopped for tires a LOT and now there are zillions of brands. Some are well rated and very reasonable. I get the cheaper grades (as long as they are good tires) because we've had so many tires destroyed through the sidewall that it's no use buying a premium tire. Something I hit at night must have been a gaff hook because it made a 6" gash in the sidewall.

Strangely enough, we had a Mitsubishi Montero that was supplied with Yokohama tires that I never had to replace. The car wore out long before the tires by overheating and warping the (Aluminum) head. Getting it fixed and overheating again took it out for good. Tires still good at over 125,000 miles. (most of the mileage was a mail route, slow and easy)
 
I don't run anything besides 10 or 12 ply on my truck. Anything else the gravel and scorio roads are libel to bust them up. Many of the non paved roads in parts of the state are covered with scorio. It looks like broken bricks because it is clay fire hardened by to underground coal fire there that they say have been burning for 4 million years or so. If there is no topping on a road there the gumbo clay (bentinite) turns in to grease with just a bit of rain. Mostly Yokahamas and Toyos
 
Those are passenger car tires. Truck tires are LT. Goodyear does make some great tires.

I recently put new tires on my Chevy PU, Yokohamas. They are the 4th set of new tires.

I had a set of BFG Rugged Trail that lasted nearly 45 miles. All the others were only good for 30-35,000 miles.

LT 10 ply load range E is all I ever buy.
 
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Load range E, 10 ply here also. Towing a horse trailer, loading the PU bed with 1500-1600# hay, firewood, etc. along with gravel roads, winter and spring conditions, make 10ply mandatory. Though I have had good luck with Coopers in the past years, I had a set of Michelins that seemed to last almost forever, though they were tougher on the wallet!
 
The tires I replaced this time were Big 0 brand tires, the worst of the bunch, they are made by Cooper.

I've had lots of Cooper tires over the years and have always been happy with them - not sure what happened to these but I was glad to have them gone.

This is just my opinion - ;) Michelin's wear really good. My tire guy told me he has a few customers the regularly 70-80000 miles off a set.

For a tire to last that long they need to be made of hard rubber which is not good for snow and ice. "Winter tires" don't generally last a long time because they are made with a softer rubber compound so the grip - like race car tires.

If they lasted 80,000 miles I'd go thru at least two winters with tires that did not have all that much tread and made of hard rubber. Big big negatives for me.

I'll see how these Yokohama Geolander ATs do.
 
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I purchased four 30" tall 255-15" tires for my Wrangler they were $400 shipped eBay and $80 to mount and balance on a slow Friday afternoon.
 
chief38 said:
Goodyear , along with Perrelli and Continental are my 3 favorite tires. Never had any luck or liked Michelin's.
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I replaced the set of Michelin tires on my F250 after traveling just under 87,000 miles on the tires.
 
Wouldn't that be $316? Still pretty good deal. I haven't been able to find a good set for under $400 in a while . . .

JcMack said:
I bought a set of these at Walmart maybe 3 yrs ago and they're great for the money. I paid $75ea. plus installation. If you've got an older P.U. with 15" rims they are the cat's pajamas. The ad says they'll ship them free to your house or to the store if you want them to install them. They've got a fairly aggressive tread good in snow (at least where I live). $216 plus install is a good deal for deeze tars.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Goodyear-Wrangler-Radial-P235-75R15-105S-OWL-Highway-tire/4404150
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JcMack said:
I bought a set of these at Walmart maybe 3 yrs ago and they're great for the money. I paid $75ea. plus installation. If you've got an older P.U. with 15" rims they are the cat's pajamas. The ad says they'll ship them free to your house or to the store if you want them to install them. They've got a fairly aggressive tread good in snow (at least where I live). $216 plus install is a good deal for deeze tars.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Goodyear-Wrangler-Radial-P235-75R15-105S-OWL-Highway-tire/4404150
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Those are excellent tires. I ran a set on my Chevy 4X4 when I lived in Colorado Springs
and later on in El Paso. They were good in the mountain snow and the desert sand.
You got a great price on them.
 
I always hear great things about how long Michellin tires last so I bought a set for my wife's car. She was driving on the expressway one day with about 20k miles on the tires and passenger rear tire blew up and a 3 foot long strip of tire starts spinning and slapping and beating up the door and outside fender of the car. It did some expensive surface damage and it appeared the tire was very hard rubber so that allows the tread to last a long time but the rest of the tire may not last because the rubber is TOO hard. I also had some expensive Bridgestone Duellers on a Toyota Rav4 and those were some of worst tires, which were noisy, rough riding, poor handling, bad in the winter, and they wore out at about 38K miles.
 
rubiranch said:
Those are passenger car tires. Truck tires are LT. Goodyear does make some great tires.

I recently put new tires on my Chevy PU, Yokohamas. They are the 4th set of new tires.

I had a set of BFG Rugged Trail that lasted nearly 45 miles. All the others were only good for 30-35,000 miles.

LT 10 ply load range E is all I ever buy.
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LT tires are overkill for most folk. I didn't bother when I fitted Hankook Dynapro ATM RF10s to my Xterra.
 
Muss Muggins said:
Wouldn't that be $316? Still pretty good deal. I haven't been able to find a good set for under $400 in a while . . .
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They were 54 bucks a tire for four days during the black Friday deal. Now they're back to $74. By most standards this little twerp ain't even a real truck. It's all I be needen.
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