Goodyear Endurance LHD ($7650) what is your experience with them?

Exceptions may very, don't make the guy upset

 

950.00 a tire no way

 

Who knows, may well be for all of us in a year or two. Love's installs steer Michelins for 1900, was told last week in Denton. Bought Continentals for 350 each from a friend to replace 2 yo Michelins, installed them at Love's, kind of ok. Michelins went on the trailer for another year. It's a hide and seek game

 

I've run them for the past 10 years. Admittedly, not the best of top tier brands but they have worn more than adequate for me to keep buying them. However, east of I-35 where I operate, Goodyear has the best service network by a long shot. My local dealer in Doraville GA has been exceptional. Quality service has been the main reason I buy Goodyear. My trucker math tells me the slightly lesser wear mileage is mostly canceled out by the slightly lower prices compared to the top Michelin or Bridgestones. I usually see 160k+ on steers (16 ply run at max pressure) and around 300+ on drives (regular 14 ply with cat's eyes and 100 psi). I don't leave them on until they reach minimum legal depth either, so maybe others would see a bit more wear than I do in the same application. That's for OTR reefer for reference.

Experience has shown the Goodyears are sensitive to bearing preload being absolutely right. Even just a little bit off and they will develop weird wear patterns and need sooner replacement, mainly on steers and inside tires on duals. Whoever invented preset bearing assemblies is an agent of Satan. Max pressure on the steers helps, as does cat's eyes on the drives to keep the dual sets pressure equalized. Ultimately, the solution is to throw out the bearing spacers whenever the hubs need service, and set them right.

One thing that's not obvious about the Goodyear line is that the lesser brands look exactly the same when viewed side by side. They are different. You bought the top tier tire, so this isn't entirely relevant to the OP. The Kelleys and Dunlops are decent value choices, but have never worn as well on drives and steers in my experience. However, the Kelly trailer tires have been good and seem less prone to picking up rocks as the Goodyear equivalents. If I recall you don't haul vans so ymmv of course. I don't have any particularly good or bad traction stories to tell. We don't go off road much. But do run up north in the winter and manage to do what I need to do. Maybe I just don't know better, but I haven't got any complaints.

 

The price is , on point, I've run them on my spread axel, 12000 miles before I put flatspots in them, just bought all 8 again, 7000 miles and just checked them for air,.... 110, two of them had 108, just put steers on been running kelleys

 

So .... unless I need a tire in an emergency or am using a national account. TA is a no go for me on tire pricing.

In the future. TruckersB2B is "free" and you can get intro tier tire account pricing at any dealer. 5 minutes to set up an account. Give em your credit card info. Call for PO when you get a tire service. They charge you back. Could be immediately, could be 30 days. Probably would have saved you at least a g ... if not two on this purchase. They do Yokohama, Goodyear, Continental, General, Michelin and BF Goodrich

If you are in Phoenix ... Blue Ribbon tire are good people. Betts does the best suspension work and Alignments for a big shop. Arizona Laser Alignment is the best "inexpensive" alignment ... do not have them do any other work, they will bend you over and give it to ya raw with no lube.

 

I had the same experience on traction. I absolute hate them and will never buy another set. Also I did not get that great of wear either but that was not the biggest issue as traction was. I will give up MPG and wear for traction anytime of the day.

 

Bushings

 

I've got those same tires on my drives for the last 2 years. Ran the same tread for a few years as recaps on the drives. Currently they're wearing perfectly. The caps did good too. Great tire imo and I won't buy anything else for the drives.

 

Knee Deep in Michelin rubber is a truckers dream right next to the little debbie swiss cake rolls., long live the Bibster.