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Old Feb 26, 2013 | 03:44 PM
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Yup:

https://dodgeforum.com/forum/1st-gen...5-75-16-a.html

I have 10K on mine so far and love them. I also misstyped, it's ATP, not ATR.

Link to tire here:

http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/fin...11803&sw=false
 
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Old Feb 26, 2013 | 03:47 PM
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They seem like pretty legit tires.
 
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Old Feb 26, 2013 | 03:48 PM
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You can't beat the price for a 55K AT tire.
 
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Old Feb 26, 2013 | 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by MoparMan1991
Last I looked at BFGs I thought they were like $1200.

Never paid anywhere near that. I had these on my toyota truck (twice) and my buddies 98 durango 4x4. Great long lasting tire and very quiet on highway for a all terrain tire.

Price is about $156 a tire from Sam's club. Maybe can find this tire a little cheaper elsewhere but not by much as far as local store pricing.

http://www.samsclub.com/sams/bf-good....ip?navAction=
 
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Old Feb 26, 2013 | 08:33 PM
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I've got Goodyear Wrangler Radials on mine and I like them. I haven's had any problems with them in the snow/ice or in the mud. The only tires I've had that were better were my old Pirellis (scorpio was the model I believe). I've gotten out of plenty of mud holes and gotten through snow and ice that the 6wd snow plows with chains couldn't get through.
 
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Old Feb 26, 2013 | 10:25 PM
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I'm a little late here, but I just picked up a set of Prodigy (Yokohama) tires from Discount Tire and they have been great. Here in Illinois, they were $106 a tire for 245/75/16s. They are a normal All-Season tire.

I made the mistake of getting All-Terrains on my Durango than never sees off road. With an open diff, they would just spin on snow or wet roads from day one. I was so sick of it, I'm glad I got these new tires.
 
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Old Feb 26, 2013 | 10:31 PM
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I've gotten out of plenty of mud holes and gotten through snow and ice that the 6wd snow plows with chains couldn't get through.

Not to sound mean or anything but, i am gonna go out on a limb here and say that you have never driven a "6wd"? i am also gonna go out and say that whoever you seen stuck in a "6wd" must have not been a real truck driver. Just for the record those "6wd" are really 10 wheelers, eight in the back and 2 up front. I drove a Tri-Axle (12 wheeler) for 13 years and NEVER got stuck. Of course you are gonna get out of mud holes and go though snow and ice better then them, you are atleast 60,000 lbs lighter than them. You also have the option of switching to 4HI and allowing your front wheels to lock in. There are truck mainly for construction use that also allow the fronts to lock but there kinda rare. So basically most big trucks are just the same as a 2wd pickup.

My Tri-Axle weighed in at a little under 74,000 lbs when loaded with salt. it was nice to have the weight over the tandems when you where on a flat road but add any kind of incline and the weigh would help it drag alot. Also most truck tires (for big rig truck) are made for highway use, there not made for offroading or anything like that like the tires on our trucks so even with chains there is not much there to grip.

 
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Old Feb 26, 2013 | 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Rawyzf
Yup:

https://dodgeforum.com/forum/1st-gen...5-75-16-a.html

I have 10K on mine so far and love them. I also misstyped, it's ATP, not ATR.

Link to tire here:

http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/fin...11803&sw=false

i am soon gonna be ordering mine. ill have to order them off ebay as the closest discount tire is like 6 hours away. not a problem because they offer free shipping. just need to find a tire shop that will mount and balance them, most shops around here give you the cold shoulder when installing something they didnt sell you.

I also wanna rebuild the front end and get it aligned before i put them on, dont wanna chew up the new tires....
 
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Old Feb 27, 2013 | 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Old_School
Not to sound mean or anything but, i am gonna go out on a limb here and say that you have never driven a "6wd"? i am also gonna go out and say that whoever you seen stuck in a "6wd" must have not been a real truck driver. Just for the record those "6wd" are really 10 wheelers, eight in the back and 2 up front. I drove a Tri-Axle (12 wheeler) for 13 years and NEVER got stuck. Of course you are gonna get out of mud holes and go though snow and ice better then them, you are atleast 60,000 lbs lighter than them. You also have the option of switching to 4HI and allowing your front wheels to lock in. There are truck mainly for construction use that also allow the fronts to lock but there kinda rare. So basically most big trucks are just the same as a 2wd pickup.

My Tri-Axle weighed in at a little under 74,000 lbs when loaded with salt. it was nice to have the weight over the tandems when you where on a flat road but add any kind of incline and the weigh would help it drag alot. Also most truck tires (for big rig truck) are made for highway use, there not made for offroading or anything like that like the tires on our trucks so even with chains there is not much there to grip.


The plow/salt truck drivers in the winter are the same people that normally drive the construction trucks during the rest of the year.

I never really put much thought into it, I just thought it was interesting that I was having to go around the plow trucks that got stuck.

Like I said before though, these tires are really good in the snow and ice as well as the mud. The hill that my dad's house is on is between a 35-45 degree incline, and is terrible all winter. The plow trucks couldn't make it up, and it took my dad's silverado (cooper tires) quite a while to make it up the hill, but I had no problem in my Durango with the goodyear tires.

I've also been sunk in the mud in the same place and time as my dad's silverado and I was able to get out, but he couldn't.
 
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