Chinese tire quality?

Exactly driver. A cheap tire can kill a O/O rep real quick. Cant put a price on rep. Quality only.

 

We have not had ANY luck with their trailer tires.. horrible tires! Double Coin's were total garbage! there is another brand Durun that is only slightly better.. for junk.

 

What kind are they? I bought 8 Roadmasters for my drives, 14ply, and they are doing just fine. I think they are a foreign tire? I also got 4 GT which I think is Korean for the trailer, they are 16ply though. All seems to be doing fine.

 

I put 8 DoubleCoin tires on my drives early this year and have had no trouble. My brother had them on his car hauler for well over a year and they were wearing just fine when he traded the truck. Of course, he also tried them on his trailer and they were crap.

 

Bridgestone 726's would get my vote. My truck had/has a mix set of drives on it when i bought it. 2 of them being 726's. Out of them all they are buy far the best. Had the lowest tread depth of them all and they will probally out last the rest at the rate they are going.

Think i remember SHC saying he has gotten 500k outta a set of them. Seeing the two i have l, i can see it.

They arent cheap initially but if you can get that kinda mileage they work out to be more cost effective.

 

I ran Chinese Dynatrac tires on my old step deck. They held up very well on there. A friend of mine runs their drive tires hauling livestock, always heavy and lots of gravel roads and gets 250,000 out of them.

 

Thinking the RoadMaster is Coopers brand after they shipped the molds over to China?

I have a mixed bag of tires under a car trailer. 265/70/19.5 One Michelin One Yokohama RY023 two Bridgestone R 250's & forget the rest. The B-stone R 250's are wearing the best.

As far as the original post, watch which state you buy in. A T/A in GA was either $400-$600 cheaper for 8 tires than a T/A in IL out the door price.

 

I'd run a recap LONG before I ran a china-crap tire on my truck...but I won't buy anonymous casings that have been capped by anonymous facilities. Most of my drive tires are on their 2nd capping, but I bought them new as virgins, ran 'em, capped 'em, ran 'em again, capped 'em again, and I'm running them 1 more time...then I'll trade them in for whatever case credit I can get for them. My truck is the ONLY truck these casings have ever been on, and the shop I use to recap them is reputable....thoroughly inspects the casings and they aren't afraid to reject a case.

However, if the tire doesn't have "MADE IN USA" on the sidewall, it won't go on my truck.

 

When buying tires I don't always look at the intial investment of them. I try to find out on average what others are getting for miles out of a particular tire, then figure up what the cost per mile is for that tire. Nine times out of ten the more expensive American made tires cost more to buy, but last longer. So in the end they are actualy cheaper once you figure the cost per mile.