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Prdtrgttr Enthusiast

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Dude! That is a great looking truck. :thumbs: It's going to look even better once you get some new rubber. What tires are you going to go with?

RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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undecided as of now, it will be sometime before I get any (maybe we will see). Wife is going to need new ones on her Tahoe this coming fall most likely and I want to go with some cooper zeon's. I am thinking either BFG ATs 275's, cooper zeons, or nitto terra's. They are all pretty comparable price wise. I have always had BFGs in the past and they have been great tires. I think we will see how the coopers go on the tahoe and go from there.

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I'll be honest, I've always been a BFG guy for all my trucks as well but when it came time to buy for my '98, I ended up going with the Michelin LTX AT/2's. They were priced similar and from what I've seen lately from other friends BFG's as far as wear, I'm glad I did. It seems as though sense Michelin bought out BFG the longevity of the BFG tires has dropped substantially. I'm sure it was a change in the rubber compound and why they did it, I'm not sure but I can tell you this, the Michelin's on my '98 have almost 40k on them and have only lost 2/32" of tread depth. I have three friends with BFG AT's and one with MT's and all of those trucks are going to need new rubber by 40-50k.

 

This truck will most likely get a set of Blizzaks thrown on the factory wheels for winter as soon as I can find a clean set of '08 Silverado 20's to use for summer use. The 6.2 is just ABUSING the factory Bridgestone's WAY too much, on the hot summer roads, no matter how nice I try to be to them. LOL.

 

On another note, I'm tossing the idea of a leveling kit around but I don't want to raise the rear. Was the 2" front too much by itself or....?? I want some positive rake still, after the level (rear still 1"ish higher) and I don't have any plans for larger tires at this time. Thoughts?

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I'll be honest, I've always been a BFG guy for all my trucks as well but when it came time to buy for my '98, I ended up going with the Michelin LTX AT/2's. They were priced similar and from what I've seen lately from other friends BFG's as far as wear, I'm glad I did. It seems as though sense Michelin bought out BFG the longevity of the BFG tires has dropped substantially. I'm sure it was a change in the rubber compound and why they did it, I'm not sure but I can tell you this, the Michelin's on my '98 have almost 40k on them and have only lost 2/32" of tread depth. I have three friends with BFG AT's and one with MT's and all of those trucks are going to need new rubber by 40-50k.

 

This truck will most likely get a set of Blizzaks thrown on the factory wheels for winter as soon as I can find a clean set of '08 Silverado 20's to use for summer use. The 6.2 is just ABUSING the factory Bridgestone's WAY too much, on the hot summer roads, no matter how nice I try to be to them. LOL.

 

On another note, I'm tossing the idea of a leveling kit around but I don't want to raise the rear. Was the 2" front too much by itself or....?? I want some positive rake still, after the level (rear still 1"ish higher) and I don't have any plans for larger tires at this time. Thoughts?

 

40-50K out of the BFG's are normal. I like the looks (more agressive) of the BFG/Nittos over the michelins

 

I have no idea if the 2" was to much as I did the rear and then the front so I never seen just the front done. I dont mind the rake I wanted a little overall lift to my truck.

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I use to get nearly 70k out of every set of BFG AT's that I've ever bought. Same with the three other friends of mine that are currently running them. Two had a set of BFG MT's go 60k on D-Max's.

 

I like the looks of a MT tire as well but considering that my new truck isn't my '86 K-30 and it isn't going to get sunk in a mud hole every other day, like the '86 did, I'll stay with the AT type tires, thanks. :lol:

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cylinder1 New Member

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I am wanting to add 3 inch rear blocks to my '12 sierra z71 crewcab but I have read some people recommend shock extenders. Are these truly necessary?

Thanks...

RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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I have had the rear block for some time with no shock extenders. Never had an issue

 

 

Ryan

 

 

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I'll be honest, I've always been a BFG guy for all my trucks as well but when it came time to buy for my '98, I ended up going with the Michelin LTX AT/2's. They were priced similar and from what I've seen lately from other friends BFG's as far as wear, I'm glad I did. It seems as though sense Michelin bought out BFG the longevity of the BFG tires has dropped substantially. I'm sure it was a change in the rubber compound and why they did it, I'm not sure but I can tell you this, the Michelin's on my '98 have almost 40k on them and have only lost 2/32" of tread depth. I have three friends with BFG AT's and one with MT's and all of those trucks are going to need new rubber by 40-50k.

 

This truck will most likely get a set of Blizzaks thrown on the factory wheels for winter as soon as I can find a clean set of '08 Silverado 20's to use for summer use. The 6.2 is just ABUSING the factory Bridgestone's WAY too much, on the hot summer roads, no matter how nice I try to be to them. LOL.

 

On another note, I'm tossing the idea of a leveling kit around but I don't want to raise the rear. Was the 2" front too much by itself or....?? I want some positive rake still, after the level (rear still 1"ish higher) and I don't have any plans for larger tires at this time. Thoughts?

 

I had the 2" by itself for a while. It looked good as it was perfectly level. I ended up not liking it and on my truck if you put any kind of weight in the bed you could tell that the back was sitting lower and gave it a lot of cali lean. The 3" blocks in the back gave it the natural rake back which i ended up liking a lot more.

 

I can also say that pictures do zero justice for how good these trucks look with this setup.

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