I have to agree with Mike. Watch your rear tire air pressure. I wore the
centers out on a set of these (255/70/15). Not bad tires for the money
though.
Alex
97 CC Sport V8 5spd
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Clark <mike@mikesdakota.com>
To: <dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Radial T/A's
> Mike, I have these very tires on my '93 Dak (same size too). Wet
> traction isn't bad, but it's not all that great. I had goodyear
> eagles before and they had just a tad more wet traction but not much
> of a difference. With BFG's my truck handles MUCH better on the
> corners. One thing you want to watch out for with these tires is the
> rear pressure. Make sure you drop the pressure in the rear to at
> least 25 or you will wear the middle of the tread out. I just rotated
> mine the other day and noticed this was beginning to happen. Just watch
the
> pressure and rotate every 5k or so and they will last a long time.
> FWIW I got about 45k out of the eagles and could have easily gone
> another 5 to 10k on them.
> --Mike
> www.mikesdakota.com
>
> > I'm looking for info on BFG Radial T/A's. I'm going to be purchasing
> > some new rims and was looking for the 255/60R15's. What I would like to
know
> > is anything about the wear of the tires, the wet traction, snow
traction,
> > dry traction and anything else that would be good to know. I really
don't
> > know how well I can expect passenger tires to grab in bad weather on our
> > daks, but I'm hung up looking for that nice solid sport truck look,
handling
> > and wear in a tire. I have a club cab V8 to give you some
characteristics of
> > my truck. I don't have the handling package, which the way it sounds
really
> > wouldn't help me out that much anyway.
>
> > Mike
>
>
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