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Old 05-24-2010, 01:41 PM   #19
CU Tiger
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Backwoods, SC
Not sure how much I know about tires, but with my experience on our trucks (again not sure how relevent this is to you situation)

- You get what you pay for. I average about 80k miles on Michelins, we got 50-60k on goodyear and firestones and when i tried some guardians from sears (their house brand) I had to replace them after 20k miles. Now we run only Michelins
- Sears locally price matches internet sites for the tire so long as I pay for their mount and balance and buy the road hazard (10% but its totally free replacement for like 2 years....where we are on construction sites daily it is worth it, again you maybe not so much)
- I only buy tires in 4s now...and rotate the hell out of them. That gets me about 25% increased tread wear and the guys say they ride better...With 2 new and 2 old you really dont ever want to rotate the best away from the front, and it just perpetuates a cycle id rather not.
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