Bought my Aeolus tires today.

I got rid of my 308's. They didn't wear all that well & had horrible puncture resistance. I was getting about one flat tire a month on my drivers. Switched to Firestone FS507's & gained about .4 mpg too.

 

Be sure to keep em balanced, rotated, proper inflation and check the truck alignment. Cheap tires are still expensive. When I had my old truck I'd have my tires rotated and rebalanced every 3 months or so and I got terrific mileage out of them. This new truck... ehhhh. Tires are part of the LP so I'm not so concerned right now but as soon as I get the dang thing paid for you can bet I'll go back to my regiment of tire life. Oh yeah, that Loves in Memphis Indiana, the tire guy argued with me about tire rotation and told me I was crazy to rotate my tires and that it didn't matter for tire wear.. etc. So I went across the interstate at the Pilot and had it done there. Never went back to a Loves for tires since.

 

Had some on my Sand Can on lease roads for 8 months. Never once had a problem of any sort. I was highly impressed, especially because in 6 weeks I had brand new domestic tires and had at least 3 punctures/flats on a belly dump.

 

Well, if you're constantly making changes to your front-end or tractor alignment and camber and so forth, you do have something else going on that should perhaps be looked at before you continue with constant alignments or you need to keep your truck on the pavement, and it's probably bad mechanics. In my experience, there are fewer people who know how to properly align a truck then there are guys who will take an in-spec alignment and screw it up due to lack of knowledge and experience and/or out of spec equipment. If it aint broke don't fix it, because eventually someone will take something that's not broke, and break it, especially with alignments. That's my 2 cents.

 

i noticed another truck at the truck stop today that had the same 596's i have on my truck with about 7-8/32 tread left and they were worn evenly with no irregular wear and still looked quite good. i didn't see the driver to ask him about how long they were on his truck or how many miles he had on them ect.

 

yes buy more foreign crap....and wonder

 

You might want to reconsider using the cheap Chinese tires on the steer axle. My original thought was if I get 1/2 the wear from a tire that costs 1/2 as much, they'll be ok for the short term. What I've learned is that what you really get with those cheap tires is poor casing construction. They just won't take a beating like a better tire. Both of mine (supplied by dealer on purchase) and the one on my son's truck (a get-by purchase prior to some front end work + alignment) barely made 40k mi. That said, you might do better with the drives since the load is spread out more with 4 tires on the axle.

We don't operate off-road, but do encounter rough pavement here and there. On my truck, I'm pretty sure it was the trench at the entrance to the Pilot in Hammond, LA that took them out. Not with a bang though. I think the belts got busted up and it took a couple months for the tread to really start wearing bad and get out of round. Acted like an alignment problem with a pull to the right. The alignment was off a bit, but replacing those steers is what solved it.