New Truck Owners!
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Don't Know Why I Didn't Post This Before, but If You Have A New Truck With Stock Tires This Applies to You.
Back When I Bought my Truck in 05' I Had About 2,100 Miles on My Truck When I Finally Towed A Trailer With It. I Got OWNED and Bounced Around - The Stock Tires We Standard LT Tires, With The Basic Load Rating and the Structure of the Sidewalls Where Horrible. I Brough My Truck Into My Local Discount Tire, and Told Them About The Problem...
He Called Michellin and Told Them My Situation - New Truck, Crappy Tire Structure, Unhappy.. bla bla. He Then Handed Me the Phone and They Told Me To Pick Out any Michellen Product (BFG, Same Owners) With A "D" or "E" Rating. So I Did, I Found My LT285/70/17DBFG all Terrains. They Covered 75% of The New Tire Purchase. With 4 Certs and 4 Tires I Paid Like 200 Bucks Out The Door.
Long Story Short. If You Tow and Hate The Quality, or Just Hate The Tires Supplied. I Would Reccomend Going Into Your Tire Shop and Have Them Call Your Tire Brands Company. It Worked Out For Me, and It Worked Out For My Tire Guy - They Got Paid Full Price.
Back When I Bought my Truck in 05' I Had About 2,100 Miles on My Truck When I Finally Towed A Trailer With It. I Got OWNED and Bounced Around - The Stock Tires We Standard LT Tires, With The Basic Load Rating and the Structure of the Sidewalls Where Horrible. I Brough My Truck Into My Local Discount Tire, and Told Them About The Problem...
He Called Michellin and Told Them My Situation - New Truck, Crappy Tire Structure, Unhappy.. bla bla. He Then Handed Me the Phone and They Told Me To Pick Out any Michellen Product (BFG, Same Owners) With A "D" or "E" Rating. So I Did, I Found My LT285/70/17DBFG all Terrains. They Covered 75% of The New Tire Purchase. With 4 Certs and 4 Tires I Paid Like 200 Bucks Out The Door.
Long Story Short. If You Tow and Hate The Quality, or Just Hate The Tires Supplied. I Would Reccomend Going Into Your Tire Shop and Have Them Call Your Tire Brands Company. It Worked Out For Me, and It Worked Out For My Tire Guy - They Got Paid Full Price.
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Let Me Know. BE STERN That You Don't Like That Particular Product. Don't Make It Sound Like Your Complaining Just Get Something Free. Make Them Understand That For Your Aplication Your Stock Tire DOES NOT Work.
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I did this same thing on my old 05 Chevy Z71, only in my case the stock tires were wearing very badly, I forget the term that the tire guy used (cupping I think) but he did the same thing. Called Bridgestone, blah blah 8000 miles blah blah dissatisfied, blah blah. Ok, they'll give you $450 towards tires of Bridgestone/Firestone band. I picked out the REVO's (should've picked the Destination AT REVO's are not that great,) they had to order them, came in a few days later and walked out with about $1000 worth of tires for just over $500. Still will probably never by another Bridgestone owned brand tire again as the REVO's didn't live upto the sales pitch, but still am at least satisfied with how I was treated as a customer.
