It drives like a whole different truck. It doesn't just "Wander" with the wheel between 11:00 and 1:00...the truck actually moves. And it doesn't move spongily, but solidly. I'll go find a small quick place to play around before I get it aligned in the morning and see how it behaves with the stiffer springs.


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Yeah I'd say you had some problems by the way those tires wore! That sucks. Ruined a good set of tires. Are you getting the Firestone's again? Those are the tires my father has on his F-150 and he likes them.

 

yep, absolutely killed them.

and yes, putting them right back on. Best wearing tires I've put on this truck so far. I wanted to go 265/75-16 but Firestone can't find then, tirerack only has 2...seems to be a rare tire. The next step up is a 285-75-16, and I don't know that it would fit without using wheel-spacers and some trimming. I'm getting the same-that-I-have-now 265-70-16's for 148 each, tirerack shows them for 155. The 285 is .400" wider on each shoulder and 2.23" taller, almost a 33" tire.

I'm hoping I won't have any mor tire-fender contact. You can see where the tires are tried to rip out the fender. I need to beat that back in while I have them do the tires.

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Yeah, my father put his on last summer and has about 45k miles on them now and has approx. 50% usable tread left.

 

I picked the D-AT's based on reviews on tirerack. Basically, I says display all comments in descending order of mileage. All the reviews at the top were centered around the D-AT's. Most got 70-90K to a set...a couple got 110K but probably ALOT of highway miles.