Chinese Tires?

I all so understand for seasonal guys like farmers. I would run them over caps. And especial trucks or trailers that set, and maybe off road. Time is the killer of every tire. Air made up of oxygen and C02 plus 100 other things react with rubber. Deteriorates it. Rubber is porous and air naturally leaks out of it. Nitrogen is larger molecules and does leak thru the pores of the rubber. Nitrogen is dry inert gas and does not react to rubber. If it sits outside cover them up, the sun kills them.

 

There are lots of imitation and counterfeit tires out there from China. Huge market for stolen molds when legit factories upgrade to new ones. Second hand companies make these off brand tires with inferior rubber compound that hardly meets minimum safety or performance standards. Since many of the tire forming molds are stolen or black market, the safety or DOT approval stamping on the sidewall are totally fake and totally counterfeit. Tires do not get inspected when crossing boarders and there is simply too little enforcement for anti-counterfeit. So you could be buying a death trap for yourself or those you share the highway with. Buyer beware, you get what you pay for.

 

All so a good point ^^^^ Heavy!

 

Roadmasters are Cooper designed engineered and backed. Great tires for my low mile operation (60k miles a year) Michelin casing is worthless by the time I can wear them out based on age so I save my money on the front end. I also run 17.5 on Stepdeck. Only Continentals on there.

 

I've never installed Chinese tires on my trucks. I had them on trailers. Triangle and Hercules all position tires were the best. Some Road Warriors are good too.

 

AW.

I have been relying on Hankooks for weight and ability to get around that grass and clay. Have them a certain size for the truck. Been looking forward to getting a set.

 

I’ve got one road master out of all general brand tires on my drives and it is wearing irregular from inside top part of tire is that causing me my vibration going 65 70 mph?

 

Centramatic and new shock absorber will ease and/or remove the vibration.

 

I had a set of drives that were off brand
They seemed to wear pretty well but it also seemed that more junk like pieces of aluminum and such would get caught in the tires

Maybe just where I ran or maybe softer rubber but I’ve ran Michelin tires for several years and have yet to pull any scrap out of them

 

I just have that one roadmaster tire and it’s wearing pretty bad I’m pretty sure it’s causing my vibration all my other 7 drives are general k2s