how bad are Chinese Virgins

To be fair, the vast majority of us are at 80k or under. Running heavy changes everything about what you put on the truck, hell it changes what truck you buy.

 

I use Double Coin as trailer and drive tires but never had much luck with them as steer tires. I get about the same tread life out of them as I did when I ran all Bridgestone, which for my single axle car carrier is only about 150,000 miles. My new trailer came from the factory with Bridgestone on it, they are due to be replaced soon, have about 140k on them now and they didn't hold up any better than the Double Coin on the trailer I replaced last year. I currently run Good Year steers and have had good luck with them, so far over 80,000 miles which has beat anything else I have run on this tractor in the last 7 years. Keep in mind, tire wear is rapidly accelerated if you run light or unladen often, in my operation I am empty or close to empty about 40% of the time. My friends who run loaded most of the time get almost double the tire life out of the same set up and tires as I do. As for fuel mileage gain or loss, I can't comment as I have not noticed much of a difference between any tire brands, I stay right at 7.1 mpg in the summer and 6.7 in the winter, have for years through many different tire brand trials.

On our straight trucks I have not had any luck with Double Coin but have had great results from Hankook in the 19.5 size, really hold up well.

 

Aeolus have the deep peanut shaped lugs don't they? My dad ran those on his tridrive logger and they held up just as good as anything else he'd ran in the past.

 

@NorthernMechanic nice truck. How often do you change yout avatar? Lol

 

Keeps people thinking I'm someone new lol.

Thanks, that's my side project. Bought her exactly 1 year today.

 

(This sounds dirty) I can think of all kinds of thigs I'd love to do to that. Instead of cluttering this post, maybe I'll pm you about it?

 

Spud hauling outfit I worked for a few years back ran Double Coin super singles on the trailers, three axles plus a drop axle. Those particular tires are rated at 55mph, and these clowns would do 70+. The center tire would always blow on these. Some of that I feel was due to the suspension design, I think it overloaded the center tire but I never was able to scale the individual tires so couldn't prove it. Quite a bit was due to the fact the driver's tire checking was limited to thumping if they remembered. Once I started a policy of checknig every tire with a gauge every time a truck was in the shop, blowouts went from weekly to rarely.
As a side note, I only stopped in to see how long this thread would be serious before the terms used attracted a different mindset- I was not dissappointed.

 

Some of the people I work with have trucks that go into fields every day. Many have 3" we jerk'em quick pins in front of the bumpers. Tire lose to damage is fairly high. They hire some O/O's pulling some non abs trailers which flat spot a lot of tires using the hand valve. Have sent some 3 year old Chinese casings for the third cap. I am really on the fence in using Chinese tires even for these conditions. Cooper and Dunlop have some interest there, which are possibly better, one is RoadMaster. I saw a truck a couple of weeks ago that blew RF steer tire, ran off the road, and cost $4,000 to patch it up to go home. When I asked about the damage on the left side he said they just get it out of the shop for the LF tire blowing out. Thank you China for the great prices but definitely no steers here. If you are not busting them I believe top line tires save money overall.

 

Go ahead.

 

This....

I've tried Samson on my drives...

I've tried Double Coin and Aeola on my trailer......

Waste of money IMO.

Cheaper.. yes..

But why buy a tire that is 50% less and gives 40 - 50% less life? So value wise.. they are no better then a tire priced $100 more but will live twice as long. Personally I dont like to be worrying about my tires.

I was like every other guy out there.. trying to find a tire priced right with similar life to the big money tires. There is a happy middle ground. But when you start buying bottom tier tires.. you get what you pay for.

Hurst