steer tires

A round one....

You do really get what you pay for in tires. Some have luck with the chineese tires and I have dealt with a lot of used casings. To the tune of sever thousand a year.

If you want to be able to recap them and use them on drives or trailer positions then I would go with Goodyear. The reason for this is that out of all the casing brands, Goodyear is the least likely to develop weather checking. I have seen a casing from the 90's that still looked new. As with all brands there are those that have had bad experiences.

I would cap it once for a drive and then again for a trailer position.

I do know of one company that will use nothing but michelin and they have very good luck with those. I know another that used Yokohama and has good luck with those.

 

I've run Yoko and bridgestone on the steers. I tend to lean toward the Yoko because of price. Loves can usually get you a set for $850 (tax included) mounted and balanced if you talk to them long enough. They are always willing to negotiate and match prices!

 

Bridgestone or Michelin, I don't cut corners on my steers.

 

I used to run Bridgestone R287's for years but they always started getting wavey wear along the inside and outside edges. The tires would only last about 50k miles before they were trash. I switched to Michelin XZA3+ and installed Centramatics and had the truck aligned three years ago and never had a problem since. When the front end was aligned there was no worn suspension parts found, so I attribute the abnormal wear to the Bridgestone tires because the Michelin tires on there now are wearing smooth as glass. IMHO stay with Michelin.

 

I just ran a set of XZA3+ on the steers of a 379 for up to 125,000. Completely bypassed installing them on the drives and sent them straight to the trailer. They still have 11/32nds on them though. Yet, the Continental HSR2 that are currently in the drive position which does start out w/more rubber is sitting @ 16/32nds with about 10,000 more miles on them. Therefore, this time around I opted for the Continental on the steer. I was using the General S371 which is great tire in all positions, yet, lately they have been hard to come by. Though, most good name brand tires are going to serve you well.

 

Bf gooodrich st244 been getting about 180k and they run about 400 i did put a set of yokos at loves on my other truck

 

I got a set of Bridgestone 287's at the Petro in McCalla, AL last year.... 75K and they still look and ride good. The alignment and tires ran me about 1K and that was without my LCAPP discount

 

You don't think the fact it was out of alignment was a factor in the abnormal wear?