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22 hours ago, NCsierra1500 said:

35’s fit with a leveling kit on 19/20 Sierra

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beefy -  how much do they weigh  ?  fills the well up nicely

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My dumbass just realized I posted a photo of the factory 32.5’s! My apologies, these are the 35‘s. Factory 18” GMC AT4 wheel - 0 offset. VERY minor rub at full lock, not even worth trimming (I was dead set on minor trimming if need be), zero rub at 95%. After 2 weeks, I don’t even feel like I rub at full lock anymore but I don’t really need to often. The odd time I have to lock the wheel I don’t seem to hear or feel rub anymore. My guess is the rub was all on liner and it seems to have naturally pressed itself back to accommodate, I see no evidence of run on uca. I have about 300 miles on them and I would say zero rub at 95-97% lock, occasionally light rub at 100% depending on condition (reverse on slope, high speed reverse at heavy turn, etc.). I know there has been a ton of debate on this topic and I was super sceptical too. This is a base model 2019 5.3L Sierra with a 2.5” leveling kit. All y’all on the fence about the 35’s on the Newbody Sierra without a lift - I know, it looks tight, I almost canceled my tire order. It’s tight but it works and fills out that wheel well nice! 

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On 2/1/2020 at 9:13 PM, romclean1 said:

beefy -  how much do they weigh  ?  fills the well up nicely

I’m retarded - that was actually a photo with the 32.5” duratrac wranglers. I just updated my post with the 35” nitto ridge grapplers on. They’re 70 pounds a tire!

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I’m retarded - that was actually a photo with the 32.5” duratrac wranglers. I just updated my post with the 35” nitto ridge grapplers on. They’re 70 pounds a tire!

Looks good ! Love my ridge grapplers, maybe when these get too loud I’ll bump up to those 35’s


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