factory tires...
I would like to make a comment about our differentials related to tire wear. When I go around a turn while mildly throttling, my inside tire usually spins and I'm not trying to do that. Because of this, my tires will probably wear sooner than in normal driving conditions. It reminds me of some of my race cars that had Detroit Lockers that always spun the inside tire while turning no matter how easy you turned. So it's my opinion that these trucks have good units in them, they're tight, and they pull good together. So I wouldn't expect our tires to hold up to well considering this. Once you loose tread to a certain point, they all loose traction on slippery surfaces. Also, it has a lot to do with the compound of your tires, whether hard or soft, you can't always have your cake and eat it too. They have more traction for wet surfaces with softer compounds, and good tread, but won't last as long as a harder compound with good tread. It's hard to find a tire with both, or to satisfy both. But they do make tires designed for wet surfaces, and tires for dry surfaces, and you have to treat them as such, one will last longer than the other. Simply put, street tires are designed to adhere to both conditions, and behind these trucks, I doubt they'll last long.
Cooper Zeon's are pretty good too, I ran those for about 18000 miles on my wife's Durango.
I probably do drive a little more aggressively than the average person. The tires never were like this is the rain before 9,000 miles, though, so I think they are losing their traction.
GoodYear is crap, I only got 20K out of my on my 05, I replaced them with Bridegestone Deuler HL Alenza's, great highway tire and better in the rain, Any tire will spin with a high horsepower light rearend truck, you have to ease up a bit in the rain, but the Aleza's will take a lot more before they do start to spin.
i have goodyears on my 07 CC Sierra. have 35000 miles on them now and they are still just fine. i don't roast the tires and rotate them regularly and they have lasted me a long time. only replacing them with the tires from my dodge cause i'm getting bigger ones for the dodge.
I got 74,000 miles out of the 20" Goodyear LS tires on the 03 and they were not quite to the wear bars but close. They handled really good. The Wrangler HP's on the 09 are going to go soon. I have 20,000 miles on them and luckily I don't think they will make 40,000! These tires start howling as soon as they see the curve coming up! They roll over and make the truck handle like crap. The 09 will beat the 03 in a straight line but in the curves the 03 will run away from the 09 with these crappy tires. I currenly have Avon Tech ST's on the 03 and they do OK.




