I'm mostly concerned about ice traction. This area goes through a lot
of freeze-thaw cycles and they don't salt. You drive in to work on wet
roads and drive home on glare ice in many cases. I wasn't planning on
taking them to a shop... I've seen articles online about buying a "hot
knife" (example: http://www.pitstopusa.com/detail.aspx?ID=11185) and
manually siping them no closer than 1/2" from the edge of the blocks and
1/4" apart. I might play with grooving too just for kicks. As long as
they last me until next summer I'm happy, I don't expect much from M/T
tires other than a chance to dink around. If I'd paid a grand just for
the tires like I would have with some BFG M/T tires I don't think I'd be
so reckless. ;)
Also keep in mind that the Hankooks are probably harder than Procomps.
I know people complain that Swampers only last 20k while BFG M/Ts will
last 40-60k, and from what reviews I've read the Hankook M/T tires have
"better than average" tread life. Of course with the Magnum V8, tread
wear depends a lot on how much you put your foot into it. ;)
Of course compared to what who knows! If I get 20k I'd be happy
considering I'm used to Z rated summer rubber and "good" to me is
lasting 3 summers. 20k after all is 3,333 daily trips to and from work
for me, and considering I only work 16 days a month, that means that if
I only drove to and from work they'd like for 17.36 years before
replacement. But as I do have something resembling a life, but I still
don't put more than 7k a year on my vehicles unless my wife is driving them.
But first I have to install the new tie rods/idler arm/pitman arm and
have it aligned otherwise these WILL wear very very quickly...
MattB
Barry Oliver wrote:
>
> Matt Beazer wrote:
>>
>>
>> Bought some new tires and rims for my 1995 Dakota 4x4. Got them off
>> a guy who sold his '92 Dakota soon after buying them, and bought a
>> 2004 Dakota thinking they'd fit. Of course by 2004 they had 12"
>> discs on the front so 15" rims wouldn't fit:
>>
>> http://www.moparhowto.com/pictures/1995-Dakota/tiresrims/tires01.jpg
>> http://www.moparhowto.com/pictures/1995-Dakota/tiresrims/tires02.jpg
>> http://www.moparhowto.com/pictures/1995-Dakota/tiresrims/tires03.jpg
>> http://www.moparhowto.com/pictures/1995-Dakota/tiresrims/tires04.jpg
>>
>> Not bad for $450 considering they only have 100 miles on them and
>> still have the rubber nubs and colored writing on them. He
>> originally offered $300 when I ran into him in a local Dodge
>> dealership parking lot, then had offers off Craigslist for $600, but
>> we worked it down to $450.
>> The wheels alone are $120 each new with center caps (Eagle Alloys),
>> and the tires are running $135-$140 each online, so I don't think I
>> did too bad. I'm thinking of buying a tire grooving/siping knife and
>> siping the inside tread blocks to give it more bite on water and ice,
>> though considering they're M/T tires.
>>
>> On a side note, does anyone know if a 30x9.5x15" tire/rim will fit in
>> the spare tire location on a 2nd gen Dakota?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> MattB
>>
>>
>
> Good job, soundsand looks like a good deal. You do NOT, however want
> to sipe these, well, if you want any kind of mileage out of them. I
> had a set of pro-comps that were siped on the inside tread blocks and
> they wore down so fast I thought they were disappering. Personally I
> run Mud's part of the year, and a real street tread on other rims part
> of the time. Mud's aren't as bad in the winter as you may have been
> lead to believe.
>
>
>
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