OVERKILL
$100 Site Donor 2021
Wife and I drove up to Orillia today to look at some trailers and it was wet/raining. Pulled out onto a main road and could not accelerate. Touching the gas had the truck walking its ass sideways. This is not the first time I've experienced it, this is what had me looking at tossing these tires last year and I'm finally fed up enough that I've ordered new ones, which I did about 30 seconds after this event.
Trucks has ~40,000Km on it and gets dedicated snows every winter. Despite that, and the absolutely horrific wet traction these tires serve up, these are burning off at an alarming rate (quite unlike the snow tires, which are wearing exceptionally well).
Some pics:
Rear:
Front:
Sidewall:
These are by far the worst brand name tires I've ever owned (which I believe I've opined on in a previous thread). While they hook-up just fine in the dry; I'd argue they actually are quite good in the dry, their wet traction is next-level bad. My reference is the snows, which we just took off a few weeks ago, which are orders of magnitude better in the wet than these are.
Replacement are Michelin Defender LTX M/S, hope to have them installed in the next couple of days.
Trucks has ~40,000Km on it and gets dedicated snows every winter. Despite that, and the absolutely horrific wet traction these tires serve up, these are burning off at an alarming rate (quite unlike the snow tires, which are wearing exceptionally well).
Some pics:
Rear:
Front:
Sidewall:
These are by far the worst brand name tires I've ever owned (which I believe I've opined on in a previous thread). While they hook-up just fine in the dry; I'd argue they actually are quite good in the dry, their wet traction is next-level bad. My reference is the snows, which we just took off a few weeks ago, which are orders of magnitude better in the wet than these are.
Replacement are Michelin Defender LTX M/S, hope to have them installed in the next couple of days.