Falken tires????????????

Falkens are attractive for my Tahoe. But I would never touch them with a big truck. It's either Yoko, bridge, mich or something else. But not Falkens.

At any rate I rely on Hankooks. They have the good grippy highway traction plus weight capacity.

 

How are the 830 holding up. Details please.

 

Man, Falk them tires........!!

 

No details really. 50k so far, did not have any complains from my driver.

 

Lol, im wondering how well those mother falkers held up.

Me personally, I couldnt spend my money on those cheap falkin tires.

 

We are a concrete pumping company. Our trucks are always heavy, get run hard in mixed short haul and highway and a little off road in construction sites. We decided to try the Falken BI-850s 11R22.5 as a replacement drive tires for the OEM Michelins the truck came with. We got 48k out of the Michelins, which is actually pretty good in our industry. We got 51K out the Falkens on the same truck, same driver. Drivers love them for their handling and off road traction, boss loves them for the price and tread wear. They are the only tires we buy anymore, and we have never had one fail from normal use in over two years. We run a fleet of around 15 trucks. Bottom line, I would recommend these tires to anyone. They are made in Japan or USA not China or Korea. The last batch we got were made in USA.

 

Don't knock 'em till you tried 'em. We love them, latest batch we got were made in USA.

 

UPDATE;
The Falken drive tires started cupping. Even after a rotation to straighten them out, they started wearing choppy afters.
After seeing how they wore, I went with he Roadmaster(Cooper Tire). So far, so good. I have never had funky wear problems on any drive tire I have use. But I stay on top of it. The Falken tire of speak of was on a company linehaul tractor.

 

It's ok. No knocking going on. Ive already made a tire selection for this new batch.

As far as the concrete ready mix tires my company had on my mixer we ran crossrib forward and aft tread only very poor in the rain on curves at speed. (The tag axle was a exception, road wheels on that) and those special cross rib tires provided for some essentially vertical off road hill climbing and rock crawling on loose shale here in the Ozarks in a nice manner.

Michelin will be the tires I would prefer to buy all the time every time money be ######, I had a set on my old Torino GT which was set up for top end. A friend of mine with a certain talent for driving (He actually drives better than me believe it or not) took us across 10 miles of pure ice storm with those 4 new tires one night. Never went off the road with it and we averaged about 45 mph all the way through the forest and hills. That hard traction compound was all the wonderful things for tires.

I have never had a Michelin fail on a big truck. In fact one company provided them on all 10 wheels of the tractor and I got to do things on ice with it where no one else would be loading and moving making money on ice. I believe very strong in them.

With that said, I do not mind a quality tire that is strong and adequate or more so than. Whatever brand it might be. It's just that many years of trucking had led to me understanding that a handful of tires are worth putting on a 18 wheeler. The rest would just have to be replaced every so often and that's not a good thing. I usually asked for and got a full set put on virgin before winter starts and it will be very good condition the following year after I put 100K or more on them. My last set lasted 221000 miles and pretty much had some life left in them on all 10 positions. a sort of a record for us. (Team)