need new tires (for daily driving)

[jerseydrew]

so the michelins blow big fat chunks! i hate them to be nice. they are now mostly shot and i figure it is time for new tires.

i have a dedicated set of wheels and snow tires for winter duty (snow plowing) and am looking for what to throw on the truck for the rest of the year. i am not looking to deviate from factory sizing. for driving style i would call it fast but not aggressive. spend almost all my time on roads and drive a bunch.

i want something that is going to do pretty well with mileage and in the wet while not being too loud.

what says you guys?

[BlackZ71Silverado]

The OEM tires are terrible, cheap pieces of garbage that manufacturers use to save themselves money. Instead of putting a good set of tires on the vehicle, they insist on using junk that doesn't last and has terrible traction.

 

Since you have a separate tire set you use for winter months, I would just go with a good set of HT's for everyday use from. I have become a huge fan of Cooper tires since switching over from BFG on my 1500 pickups. They make a good highway tire, the Discoverer HT3's and have a 50,000mile warranty. They should serve you well for a simple daily driver.

I've had great experience with Cooper tires over the past few years. I have been running Discoverer AT3's on both of my trucks and they have performed great and wear like iron.

[KMGZ400]

If your looking for strictly on road performance an HT would be the way to go, I've gotten 70k out of transforce HTs on my vans and the ride great

[Cowpie]

Agreed. A dedicated highway type tire, all season, would be the ticket if the main use is general transportation. And they will work fine for hauling / towing. The best fuel economy should be realized with them also. Only a percentage of people actually need aggressive tires. I am ditching the Michelin stock rubber for the next size up BFG AT TA KO2 tires. I live rural and have to deal with muddy gravel roads, some heavy snows in winter, and getting out and about on the property. I have done nothing but bellyache about the stock LTX AT2 tires. Kinda hard to imagine Michelin did such a poor job with a AT tire when they own BFG who has a killer AT tire.

[88m53453]

I run Firestone Destination LE II, have run them for several sets, good mileage, ride smooth, everything I wanted in a standard street tire

[wrc7732]

I'm running the new Michelin Defender LTX's on my 2016 Silverado w/ DMax. After ditching the loud as all get out duratracs. Love the defenders. Quiet, grippy, decent looking (admittedly not as cool looking as the duratracs).

 

 

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[Colossus]

You'll be lucky to get 40,000 on any tire on a HD truck.

[voxx82]

You'll be lucky to get 40,000 on any tire on a HD truck.

I have around 40k on the stock Good Years with more than 50% tread left.

[Doobs41378]

You'll be lucky to get 40,000 on any tire on a HD truck.

Hell, I only got 34k out of the Goodyears on my 1500. I replaced them with the Michelin Defenders mentioned above and I really like them. Not sure which Michelins came off yours.

[Cowpie]

Regarding the stock Michelins that most have gotten on their 2500's, I was in at my commercial tire dealer getting the drive tires rotated on my semi and a flat repaired and had a discussion on this. They are a major Michelin commercial tire dealer for the SD, NE, IA, MO, and KS states. The service manager there was telling my that when he attended a Michelin/BFG technical meeting down in S. Carolina recently, he was talking with the engineers from Michelin and they stated that for OEM factory offerings, they use different tread compounds and such on a particular tire that meet OEM minimum specs and keep cost down. The factory mounted Michelin LTX AT2 is NOT the same Michelin LTX AT2 you get at a tire shop later on. The retail version is better made than the ones meant for initial factory build. While general handling and such might be pretty good, it is not optimum compared to the same tire that is sold at retail. Just another way that OEM's will trim a dollar here and there. Can't blame them on one level. Saving a buck on each component, when factored over millions of vehicles, is a lot of savings.