Looking at getting the goodyear wrangler duratrac in a LT275/70R18. Any one have this on their 1500 and can tell me how the tire wear and mpg is?

I am currently running Bridgestone Dualer AT Revo 2's and don't like how they handle in the deep snow. I don't plan to have two sets of tires. So I am looking for something that does pretty good all around but better in snow then the Bridgestones. Seems this tire has gotten great reviews. They all say "better then expected tire wear", but can't find any one who lists average milage on them at time of replacement. The few that I have found are for considerably lighter vehicles such as the Tacoma. I expect the gas milage to be slightly worse then the my current AT tire, but i don't want to see a drastic change. Any real data would be greatly appreciated!

 

so I have found quite a few threads talking about these tires and just about every one mentions nothing about total milage on them or mpg. Has NO ONE used these to the end of their life?

Any reason Nitto tires don't make any of the rating surveys such as those on TireRack or other sites?

 

I have the sister to that tire. Its the walmart goodyear wrangler authority. Look them up. I've had them for 3 years and almost 15000 miles. They are great tires for the snow or mud. I love them. I got the 265-70 r 17's. 10 ply. The wear is great.....they are hardly worn......had them off road more then a few times......worked flawlessly......I have a 2003 ram 1500qc 4x4 hemi.....I load the crap out of it with wood and gravel, topsoil. The tires hold up great. I also tow abojt 6500lbs with them and they just work pretty good. If the duratracs work like the authorities then u got a very good tire. The duratracs accually should work beter then the authorities because u know how everything made for walmart bye anybody is an inferiour product! Everybody knows that!

 

There are some reasons for why Walmart products are of reduced Quality... it stems from the production demands that Walmart requires from their suppiers... so what a lot of company's do is reduce the acceptable inspection criteria in order to allow more items to "pass" inspection, thus increasing output but as a result it decreases quality overall.

There are many more dynamics that come into play, such as production lot size, acceptable failure values, as well as reorder criteria and even minimum order quantity and lead time to manufacture...

I'm not going to explain it completely but to put it simply when they increase the lot size and change the inspection requirements you end up with "acceptable failure" values in which Walmart happily accepts and sells in their stores.... So basically on paper it "looks" like the quality is the same but the end-user usually suffers as a result.

Now Back on topic... I am not a big fan of goodyear tires, never have been... I was a fan of the Dunlop (owned by goodyear) for their sport compact summer tires... but thats about it.

 

I am not a fan of them either. However, this one seems to get good reviews in the categories i normally hate goodyears for namely the handling on wet pavement and snow. So I figure its worth looking at. Also now looking at Firestone Destination AT and General Grabber AT2.

I used to love me Bridgestone AT Revo tires. I currently run a Revo 2. But my recent experience with snow and those tires have not ended with good results. I went through 2 sets of revos on my Dakotas and never could get the trucks stuck. Got stuck twice last year in my ram with the revo 2, once in fairly deep loose snow and once on 2 inch fresh snow. Seemed to not shed as well and ended up with slicks as my older revos used to.

 

Jeep people LOVE them. I wanted them when I had my Jeep. I think it was Hammer who said it in a post before, but I don't know how they would be on the much heavier truck. I would say for what you are using them for they would be perfectly fine though.

 

I have Duratracs in 315/70/17. 24,000 miles on them and they are more than 1/2 worn. They are the second best snow tire I've ever had on my truck. Second only to Super Swamper TRXUS/MTs. They are much quieter than the TRXUS and are wearing better. They are not the mud tire the Swampers were,but are their equal on loose gravel and rocks. They took WAY less weight to balance to.

 

Also, New Hampshire D.O.T. and Fish & Game run them and have excellent results.

 

There's been some valid concern over sidewall failures with Duratracs on our heavy trucks. Hammer has some experience with this, as I believe he knows and has seen a few of the failures personally.

I've had 33" Duratracs on my truck for a bit over a year now and have about 12,000 miles on them. They show very little wear, and my MPG really didn't change much... however, I switched from 33x12.5/17 Pro Comp A/T's. I have nothing bad to say about them, and they are far and away the best snow tire I've ever had on any vehicle. Ever. Validated again yesterday.

As long as they keep wearing like they do and my sidewalls don't blow out during the natural life of the tire, I would not hesitate to buy them again.

 

I personally love the look of the Duratracs but I wouldn't buy them. There are plenty of other, possibly better tires out there for less or equal money that have a less rocky history with our trucks