Treadwear on RSAs is 280, not 180. The 280 rating vs. the 410 of the
Dunlops shows the RSA a softer, stickier tire than the Dunlop. The
Dunlop should last twice as long as the RSA, but not handle as well
because of the harder tire compound.
Unless you are burning your tires off from every light, or do a lot of
autocrossing, the RSAs should give you 22-30k miles easily. I ran MANY
1/4 mi runs, numerous street burnouts, and a couple times on the
autocross course with my first set of RSAs, and still got 30k out of
them (with tread to spare on the fronts). My second set (RSAs) is now
at 19k miles, and I should be able to squeeze 25k of them (more 60-70
passes down the 1/4 mi, 2 autocross events.)
My 3rd set of tires will be RSAs...
Sam '00 RT
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net] On Behalf Of Jim Miller
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 7:45 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: DML: R/T Tire Question --Dunlop
Has anyone seen or tried these tires?
I see Dunlop now has a direct replacement tire for the R/Ts in the
255/55X17
size. It is a light truck tire called Sport Rover GTX (good old mopar
trademark). High performance light truck radial approved for rim widths
7.5-9.0.
Has the center rain groove, all weather tread and siped edges.
Treadwear rating
410. I am tired of these 180 rated goodyears that don't last 20k miles.
These
are supposed to be at least 50,000 mile tires.
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