When I bought my last Truck... it was actually for Miss Kathy... Well she
told me that I had to stick Michilins on it.... "lucky me" Never much
cared... they are Black and Tires... I mean who cares..
Well ended up with the truck in the rock business the first 3 years.... damn
thing got 50,000 Hard miles out of that first set... and the second set has
65,000 on them... and still look pretty good ( dad stole the truck when we
took it off the Long haul sales call ) amazing set of tires .... they cost a
little more but sure have been worth it....
My 99 F-250 has General's and so far I am totally un-impressed.... got
91,000 on it so far... and I am on my 3 set of tires.... ( most under
warranty ... Long Story )
anyone want a Truck tested for Mileage give me a Buzz... I can put some
miles on one....
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: <ARDUNDOUG@aol.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: Tires
> In a message dated 08/31/2000 9:52:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> popms@thegrid.net writes:
>
> << List; All the talk about Firestone tires losing their tread on some
> Fords got a BS session going in the shop today. We all talked about the
> tires we had the most trouble with. I have never had good luck with
> Michelin tires on my trucks. They seem to come apart after about 4 years
> no matter how many miles on them. I did have a Cooper SRM come apart big
> time this year going to Muroc. Tore half the fender off the truck before
> I got stopped. Never had a problem with Firestones. Anybody
> else? Doug Odom in big ditch
> >>
> Doug,
> Just before the June El Mirage meet I started thinking about the
capacity
> of the tires on my single-axle open trailer that I use for close-by meets.
It
> turned out that the tires on the trailer were rated at a little less than
the
> weight I was expecting them to carry.
> Due to the tire clearances and some other factors I couldn't find a
> bigger or heavier duty tire that would work. I gave my tire-stack behind
the
> shop a cursory look and found some Michelin VR tires that came with the
Dave
> Watson Cosworth Vega powered G/STR that I bought a year ago. Closer
> inspection revealed that they were the same size as the existing trailer
> tires and were rated at about 10% more.
> I put them on the trailer and towed to El Mirage in June with no
> problems. Hope they continue to hold up............Ardun Doug King
>
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