need cheap drive tires

I shoulda took the advice I was given years ago by a very wise man.

"If you buy something good it's usually not cheap. If you buy something cheap its usually not good."

Live and learn I suppose.

 

found something very interesting. this may change my mind on tires. maybe my long lasting lugs are not so bad with a higher rr.

http://www.bridgestonetrucktires.com/us_eng/real/magazines/99V4Issue1/ra8.htm

 

Sounds great, if fuel goes back down to $.95/gallon. Wish I new how they did the calculations so we could see a comparison at today's fuel prices.

I have been thinking about putting some different drive tires on after i save up a little more money.

My truck has the Bridgestone M726's and they have about an inch of tread on them. They're going to be around for awhile.

 

Kind of old info shows fuel at .95 a gallon.

370,000 miles at 6mpg is 61,666.66 gallons x 3.409= 210,221.64 on deep tread tires with high RR

370,000 miles at 6.5mpg is 56923.07 gallons x 3.409= 194,050.74+2320 for at set of tires at 275,000miles=196,370.74 a saving of 13850.90. for the low RR tires.

Personally I have 370,000 or so miles on my XDA Xone's right now with 9/32ns of tread left.

 

Ya know. I didn't even look at the price per gallon. or the year of the study.